{"id":107570,"date":"2020-11-24T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107570"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T02:29:37","slug":"the-son-tay-prison-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107570","title":{"rendered":"The Son Tay Prison raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107571\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Son-Tay-Raiders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Son-Tay-Raiders-418x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Son-Tay-Raiders-418x333.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Son-Tay-Raiders-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Son-Tay-Raiders-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Son-Tay-Raiders.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Son Tay Raiders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We missed the 50th anniversary of the Son Tay Raid. The date passed a few days ago now, which Jeff LPH 3 was kind enough to remind us of. He sent us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/11\/21\/son-tay-raider-recalls-the-hunt-for-pows-in-north-vietnam-50-years-ago-today\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Army%20DNR%2011.23.20&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Army%20-%20Daily%20News%20Roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Military Times article<\/a> that speaks with some of the men involved in the raid.<\/p>\n<p>The Son Tay Raid was a daring special operations mission to rescue POWs from near Hanoi during the Vietnam War. Though the operation failed to rescue any prisoners, they had been moved just days before, it is considered the textbook example of planning and implementing a covert spec ops mission. It was the first large-scale joint operation under the direct control of the joint chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>The linked article is a good read for those interested in military history. It would have been one of the greatest military operations in American history if the POWs hadn&#8217;t been moved before hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We missed the 50th anniversary of the Son Tay Raid. The date passed a few days &hellip; <a title=\"The Son Tay Prison raid\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107570\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Son Tay Prison raid<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,336,446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-pow","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111005,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107570\/revisions\/111005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}