MIA-POW Commemoration

   

   
    Four AT-6 "Texan"s encircle The Liberty Parachute Team commemorating the MIA-POWs.    
     


The last two skydivers flying the Stars and Stripes and the POW banner.

  

 

  From 1940 to 1945 North American Aviation built the AT-6 "Texan" advanced fighter trainer for the U.S. Army Air Force, the U.S. Navy and many Allied Nations, who named it the "Harvard".
In the final phase of training advanced techniques and tactics were taught in the Texan.		  


"Mad Max" and "Bald Eagle" buzzing the four Texans that were encircling the "Liberty Parachute Team".

  

 

  This C-141 Starlifter was the first aircraft to airlift American POWs to freedom from Gia Lam Airport in Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973.

The Hanoi Taxi's name comes from the writing on the flight engineer's panel by the POWs aboard the plane for the freedom flight.

Signatures of the freed prisoners have been preserved on the panel over the years and are the centerpiece of what is essentially a "flying museum."
Plaques, documents and photographs of the homecoming are part of the on-board exhibit researched and created by the 445th AW.

  


The C-141 Starlifter "Hanoi Taxi" at AeroShell Square.
The Air Force's flying tribute to the Vietnam War's prisoners of war and missing in action.

  

 

 
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