Navy Honors SEAL killed in Secret Mission in VietNam
US News • February 2008 • Views: 363
They easily could have been forgotten, a handful of stealthy warriors on a secret mission gone bad.
And for more than three decades, the men of Operation Thunderhead, a daring plan to rescue American prisoners of war in North Vietnam, essentially were lost to history. Their bravery and devotion to duty were recorded as a mere “training operation,” the truth hidden from all but a handful of shipmates and relatives.