On January 23, 1968, a small U.S. Navy ship called the Pueblo was seized at sea by North Korean forces. One crew member was dead and 82 others were prisoners, destined to spend 11 months in North ...
Former Navy Cmdr. Lloyd “Pete” Bucher, who commanded the spy ship USS Pueblo when it was captured by North Korea in 1968 and helped his crew survive months of brutal captivity, only to nearly face a ...
The crew of USS Pueblo at a press conference in North Korea in 1968. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Images In January 1968, US Navy spy ship USS Pueblo left Japan for a normal ...
Jul. 21—Approximately 125 Stillwater residents gathered on Thursday evening at the Sheerar History Museum to watch the premiere screening of a documentary by film director and writer Bill Lowe.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "The United States won the Cold War without ever firing a shot." It's a claim I've never understood. Though our victory was secured without a cataclysmic nuclear exchange with the ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) _ Former Navy Cmdr. Lloyd ``Pete'' Bucher, who helped his USS Pueblo crew survive nearly a year of brutal captivity in North Korea and then faced criticism back home, has died. He was ...
Left is Commander Lloyd Bucher, captain of the USS Pueblo, middle is is F. Carl "Skip" Schumacher Jr., then 25, immediately after their release. Schumacher weighed 123 pounds after 11 months in North ...
The fear was so intense that Don McClarren blacked out just as the officer took aim and pulled the trigger. “I saw the gun, and I thought, ‘Am I going to hear the shot? Will I feel the bullet?” ...
Bob Chicca was certain that help was on the way. From the moment in January 1968 that North Korean troops captured the Marine linguist and 81 other crew members aboard the USS Pueblo, he fully ...