Downed Senator McCain

The picturesque location on the shore of the West Lake in Hanoi monument. On the bas-relief depicts an American pilot, kneeling with their hands up:





"On the day of October 26, 1967 shot down a total of 10 American aircraft. Wounded John. McCain, a major US Air Force successfully ejected from downed aircraft, and at this point he was captured. His plane crashed a few kilometers away from this place at the power plant Ienfu ».

John McCain, now the US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, was imprisoned Hoalo (Hillton Hanoi) to the end of the war (1967 to 1973).

"The enemy in this battle, at the end of October 1967, has suffered significant damage. In one week over Hanoi, he lost four colonels (including Wing Commander), nine lieutenant colonels, one of them a colonel and three lieutenant-colonel were captured. Among downed turned and Lieutenant John Sidney McCain - the son and grandson of famous American admirals. Father commanded during World War II the US Navy over the air, and his father, (at the time when his son caught in the lake Chukbat, where he splashed down after a bailout) commanded all naval forces of the United States in Europe. »



Hanoi residents spacayut wounded John McCain, has fallen into the lake Chukbat when his plane was shot down in 1967



In 1996, Senator John McCain visited Hanoi (for the first time after the war), and met with Mr. May Wang He, one of the people who saved him in 1967



John McCain attends a memorial at the lake Chukbat



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