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US Green Berets Raid Son Tay Prison and Make History

By SOFREP | November 23, 2021 Military History, SOF, Special Operations

By mid-November 1970, there were 450 known American POWs in Vietnam, and more than double that amount reported as missing in action. Reports were surfacing of brutal conditions, torture, and starvation of American POWs. Operation Ivory Coast was a daring rescue mission conducted by U.S. Army Green Berets, flown in by Air Force Commandos, to More »