Flynn's experience flying for the Air Force after WWII; U.S. unprepared ness when Korean conflict began; code of conduct of American POWs in Vietnam; training of U.S. fighter pilots in Europe delivering nuclear and missile weapons; Cuban Missile Crisis and timing of the U.S. removal of Jupiter’s from Turkey; Flynn's transfer to Vietnam in July 1967; shot down over Hanoi on 36th mission; interrogation and torture after capture; injuries; survival trailing the events of capture; prisoner isolation and communication; prison life; Vietnamese assistance from other communist countries; heavy bombing of Hanoi under President Nixon; Flynn's resentment of "liberals" visits to Vietnam.
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