670630- A4C Skyhawk to AAA, pilot captured

30 June 1967: A-4C Skyhawk (BUNO 147712) of Attack Squadron146 "Blue Diamonds" was shot down by antiaircraft artillery over North Vietnam. LT J.W. McGrath was captured. Though subject to extreme hardship and torture, he was repatriated in 1973 and retired in the grade of Captain. He is the author of "Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi," a graphic recounting of the hardships imposed on American POW's by the brutal North Vietnamese authorities.