I thought it was odd he was in front of me and I had been taught that you always try to escape. A private airline flew me and my father back and the local TV station had sent a reporter who interviewed me all the way back. Powerful Photos from the Vietnam A similar mechanism is in operation today. Admittedly, harsh interrogation techniques do produce answersfast answers. Marking a turning point in the U.S. Marines' primary mission from one of defense toward aggressive action, 5,500 U.S. Marines conducted an assault on the 1st NLF Regiment. By noon, nothing had happened. Dan Bullock (December 21, 1953 June 7, 1969) was a United States Marine and the youngest U.S. serviceman killed in action during the Vietnam War, dying at the age them are Veterans themselves. From Dec. 18-29, 1972, the U.S. Air Force conducted an operation called Linebacker II, a maximum effort campaign to destroy targets using B-52 heavy bombers that dropped more than 15,000 tons of ordnance on more than 30 targets. Before I could get his .45, he stabs me in the side with his bayonet. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. OPTICS: The Ranks on Capitol Hill: Photos of Congress' veterans on the front lines. This may seem strange, given that there are prisoners in every war. She joined with other families of MIAs to form The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, a non-profit incorporated in May of 1970 with the mission to obtain the release of all prisoners, the fullest possible accounting for the missing and repatriation of all recoverable remains of those who died serving our nation during the Vietnam War., The greatest motivation for all of these families is uncertainty, says Ann Mills-Griffiths, chairman of the board & CEO of the National League of POW/MIA Families. I know they have a heart for those Veterans, or they wouldnt work there, Harker said. Captain Belcher had been in a province southwest of Saigon where we were providing security for elections, Harker said. Would like to hug him and whisper "it's all good now brother, you can rest" . But if you subject any of them to enough torture, you will get the most amazing pieces of information, all of them exactly what you want to hear. Finally, in March, the U.S. landed its first major deployment of ground troops at Da Nangwith the intended purpose of defending U.S. air bases.