Posts Tagged ‘POW’

Over 30,000 prisoners would die at Flossenburg Concentration Camp before it was liberated in late April 1945, 66 years ago this week.  Each one had a story to tell. Some of the more notable inmates included co-conspirators in the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, codenamed Valkyrie–Rev. Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, General Hans [...]

Hump day, and time for our weekly feature, Letters From War Wednesdays.  Harold Hastings was drafted by the U.S. Army pre-Pearl Harbor, in October 1941.  He fell in with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 168th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division. In November 1942, Hastings joined 30,000 Allied troops for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.  On [...]

MIA/POW Case of Henry Serex

December 30, 2010

Through my research in writing the story of Scotty Greiling, I’ve come across much convincing evidence that American POWs were left behind in Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War.  Perhaps the most disturbing case is that of Major Henry Serex. Serex’s aircraft, “Bat 21,” was downed on April 2, 1972.  Some twenty [...]

On July 24, 1968, with over 30 strike missions and three Air Medals to his credit, Scotty Greiling once again soared into the night skies.  He launched his A-7A as the flight leader of a two-plane team.  Potential targets included activity along Route 22, a well-traveled feeder into the Ho Chi Minh Trail, North Vietnam’s [...]

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