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A 4 page paper which reviews Benjamin F. Schemmer’s book “The Raid: The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission.” No additional sources cited.
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Vietnam, the POWs. For whatever reasons, here and there, many of these prisoners of war were not returned after the war and the United States was determined to get these
soldiers back to safety now that the war was over. In Benjamin F. Schemmers "The Raid: The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission" we see an in-depth look at one of
the most astounding rescue attempts made by the United States as they headed into Vietnam to retrieve soldiers who were being held as prisoners. The following paper reviews this particular
work. The Raid Schemmers work begins with all of the struggles to put the plan into action, illustrating the men being held captive, and the powers back home
who were trying to figure out the best way possible to rescue the men. In the study of these plans it becomes interesting to see where much of the focus
lay. For example, Schemmer (2002) indicates that one particular individual, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer who was slated to take position of Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, wanted to fix
some of the damage done through the Vietnam War, as it related to the American public: "He wanted some focal point, something dramatic, to give the country a different, more
positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 of those boys back in the United
States, he thought, and let them tell in their own words, what had happened to them, it would throw a new light on the character of the North Vietnamese" (Schemmer,
2002; 61). In this we see something of the inner, and human, workings of those who wished to go in and save these men. Moorers story is an interesting one
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