Posted March 15, 2020 5:00 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

Medal of Honor recipient Rear Adm. James B. Stockdale, center, chats with guests, including Lt. Gen. Samuel J. Jaskilka, assistant commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, right, following his award ceremony at the White House, March 4, 1976.

By Katie Lange

Medal of Honor Monday

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Nearly 600 U.S. prisoners of war returned from Vietnam during Operation Homecoming in early 1973. Many had endured the longest wartime captivity of any group of U.S. POWs in the nation’s history.

One of those repatriated was Navy Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale, an iconic Naval aviator who remains the only three-star admiral to have worn both aviator wings and the Medal of Honor.

Medal of Honor recipient Rear Adm. James B. Stockdale, center, chats with guests, including Lt. Gen. Samuel J. Jaskilka, assistant commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, right, following his award ceremony at the White House, March 4, 1976.

Stockdale was born Dec. 23, 1923, in Abingdon, Illinois. He briefly went to Monmouth College in his home state before attending the U.S. Naval Academy. After graduating in 1947, he became a pilot by 1950. Over the next 15 years, he worked his way up the ranks and was sent by the Navy to earn his master’s degree in international relations at Stanford University. But he preferred flying over academics, so he went back to that when the Vietnam War began.

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