Scars and Stripes: The True Story of One Man's Courage Facing Death as a POW in Vietnam
On May 19, 1967, while on his 81st combat mission over North Vietnam, Eugene Red McDaniel was shot down while flying his A-6 Intruder aircraft. He was listed as missing in action until 1970, when the Hanoi government acknowledged that he was being held prisoner. A POW for more than six years, McDaniel was finally released March 4, 1973.   Scars and Stripes is the story of how his faith in God enabled him to endure being one of the most brutally tortured prisoners of the Vietnam War. Upon bei