The Rescue Mission in the Son Tay Prison Camp

Introduction On 21 November 1970, a joint task force between the military and the Air Force tried to rescue prisoners from Sonthai prison camp in 23 miles west of Hanoi. Task Force is composed of 56 Special Forces soldiers and 13 aircraft and crew members and is commanded by BG Leroy Manor, LTC Leroy Snydor and COL Arthur "Bull" Simons as Deputy Commander and Army Commander. The prisoners were not rescued, but due to the cooperation of relevant agencies and branches in the planning and implementation of the investigation, this task was considered successful.

Successful prison camps rescue missions were based on Côte d'Ivoire's strategy and tried to rescue American prisoners of war at the Sontoi prison camp on 21 November 1970. When the prisoner was moved to another place, the mission failed despite tactical success. Camp a few months before the operation

Sergeant Wen Fisk of November 1970 was awarded the Silver Star Award at Sonthai Prison, participated in the rescue of SS Mayague in May 1975, and gained another silver star. During Mayaguez 's rescue, Fisk was the last enemy of the US Army to join Southeast Asia. Other medals won in five tour concerts in Vietnam include the Defense Advanced Service Medal, the merits of Legion, the excellent flying cloth of Oak Leaf Group, the Meritorious Service medal of Oak Leaf Cluster, and 17 Oak Leaf Clusters Aviation medals are included.

Despite repressive circumstances, prisoners still have a lot of resistance. They established a secret communications network within the prison, provided absurd confessions, and tried to resist torture. Some of them tried to escape from prison. In northern Vietnam, there are at least 20 escape attempts, of which five are in Hanoi. However, American prisoners could not escape from North Vietnam. The United States has also carried out several strategies to save American prisoners. On November 21, 1970, at the beginning of the operation in Côte d'Ivoire, 56 soldiers of US special forces landed on the helicopter and rescued about 70 prisoners at Sonthai Prison camp 23 miles west of Hanoi. Nonetheless, the mission failed and the prisoners were not released as they were previously transferred to another camp.

I escaped several times, but American prisoners were not able to escape from the prison in North Vietnam. On November 21, 1970, the US special forces began operations in Ivoire to rescue 61 prisoners of war at the Sontoi camp which is believed to be 37 miles west of Hanoi did. 56 troops landed on the helicopter and attacked the prison, but a few months ago American prisoners were taken away, no one was rescued. Air raids were not able to release any prisoners and were regarded as a massive intelligence failure, which had some positive impacts on American prisoners of war. The most direct impact was to prove that their government is actively going to return them to prisoners of war, which significantly increased their morale. In addition, as soon as the attacks, all American prisoners of war in North Vietnam were transferred to Hyea Lò, North Vietnamese camps were fewer to protect and we were able to prevent rescue by the US military.