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LONG ISLAND: K. McManus, Vietnam POW

Two weeks before his Vietnam tour was to end, Air Force pilot Kevin McManus' fighter plane was shot down over Hanoi. For the next five years and eight months, his home was the North Vietnamese system of prisoner of war camps known as the "Hanoi Hilton," where he later recalled conditions were filthy and torture commonplace.

More than 31 years after his 1973 release, McManus became one of many...

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