Frank Cius – Part 4: Captured
In this 11-part series, Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Frank Cius shares his remarkable story of survival, spending more that five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. In Part 4, Frank recounts the events that followed the crash of his helicopter. After spending the night evading capture alongside fellow service […]
Frank Cius – Part 3: Abandoned
In this 11-part series, Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Frank Cius shares his remarkable story of survival, spending more that five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. In Part 3, Frank describes being wounded after his helicopter was shot down into a VC camp, then escaping with Dexter, a Green […]
Frank Cius – Part 2: The Mission
In this 11-part series, Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Frank Cius shares his remarkable story of survival, spending more that five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. In Part 2, Frank describes arriving in Danang and volunteering to become a helicopter crew chief. He describes a rescue mission to extract […]