Sunday, July 9, 2023

Episode 95: A Vietnam POW's Five Years to Freedom

 


First Lieutenant Nick Rowe not long before he was captured by the North in Vietnam in 1963.


Captain Rocky Versace earned his Combat Infantry Badge during his 12-month tourn in Vietnam as a US advisor to the South Vietnamese military. At the end of his tour, he extended for an additional six months. In late October 1963, less than two week before his extension was up and he was due to return home, he was captured during a combat mission with South Vietnamese forces. 



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