title: The Raid: The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission
author:  Benjamin F. Schemmer 
description: s after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months earlier and that wasnt all. Part of the raiding force landed at the wrong compound, a school bristling with enemy soldiers, but the soldiers werent Vietnamese . . . &lt;br>&lt;br>&lt;/b>Replete with fascinating insights into the workings of high-level intelligence and military command, &lt;i>The Raid&lt;/i> is Benjamin Schemmers unvarnished account of the courageous mission that was quickly labeled an intelligence failure by Congress and a Pentagon blunder by the world press. Determined to ferret out the truth, Schemmer uncovers one of the CIAs most carefully guarded secrets. From the planning and live-fire rehearsals to th
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  The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley
  
  
  Foreword.
  
  Chapter I. Young Soldiers
  
  Chapter II. The Powwow
  
  Chapter III. Disappointment
  
  Chapter IV. On the Oriskany
  
  Chapter V. Divided Duty
  
  Chapter VI. Between the Lines
  
  Chapter VII. Insubordination
  
  Chapter VIII. The Ambush
  
  [Chapter IX. The Indian
  Camp](The%20Minute%20Boys%20of%20the%20Mohawk%20V_split_001.html#filepos228034)
  
  [Chapter X.
  Prisoners](The%20Minute%20Boys%20of%20the%20Mohawk%20V_split_001.html#filepos252952)
  
  [Chapter XI. The
  Escape](The%20Minute%20Boys%20of%20the%20Mohawk%20V_split_001.html#filepos276687)
  
  [Chapter XII. In the
  Fort](The%20Minute%20Boys%20of%20the%20Mohawk%20V_split_001.html#filepos299719)
  
  [Chapter XIII. The
  Assault](The%20Minute%20Boys%20of%20the%20Mohawk%20V_split_001.html#filepos323476)
  
  [Chapter XIV.
  Mutiny](The%20Minute%20Boys%20of%20the%20Mohawk%20V_split_001.html#filepos353791)
  
  [Chapter XV. The
  Torture](The%20Minute%20Boys%20of%20the%20Mohawk%20