Dayton Air Force museum features jet that transported Vietnam POWs
A jet that transported American prisoners of war to U.S. soil during the Vietnam war has moved to a new hangar at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Ohio.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A jet that transported American prisoners of war to U.S. soil during the Vietnam war has moved to a new hangar at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Ohio.
The Dayton Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1ZdTF1I ) the four-engine plane, dubbed the "Hanoi Taxi", was rolled into a new $40.8 million hangar at the Dayton museum earlier this month. The display will be open to the public next June.
Former Air Force fighter pilot Paul Kari says he was on the first flight out of Hanoi in 1973 after he was a prisoner of war for more than seven years in a prison camp.
The C-141 Starlifter brought 78 American POWs and two civilians out of Vietnam on two trips to Hanoi.
Information from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com
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