Gordon Ross Nakagawa |

| Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Navy
VA-165 (Attack Squadron); VA-196 (Attack Squadron); USS Ranger (CV 61); USS Enterprise (CVN 65); USS Constellation (CV 64); USS Yorktown (CV 10)
Vietnam
Captain
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In 1958, when Gordon Nakagawa became a Naval aviator out of college, the American military’s main concern was Cold War strategy. Ten years later, Nakagawa was flying bombing missions over Vietnam in a new A-6 Intruder, capable of flying at night and in all kinds of weather. On a subsequent tour of duty in Vietnam, Nakagawa’s plane was brought down and he became a “guest” of the North Vietnamese at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. Nakagawa called on his training and the shared experiences of previous POWs to survive his stay.
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