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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: Col. Ed Hubbard, USAF, Vietnam, POW
Description: Ed Hubbard has been fascinated by flight since he can remember. When he was a kid, his parents dropped him off to watch planes at the local airfield for hours at a time. He joined the Air Force Reserves in hopes of becoming a pilot. He later went on active duty, became an officer and earned his wings. While serving in Europe in the mid-1960s, orders came for Hubbard to take his family back to the U.S. and prepare for service in Vietnam.While serving on a reconnaissance flight over North Vietnam in July 1966, Hubbard's plane...