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Background information: HANOI ,ARMY MUSEUM MONUMENT In 9 Years ,from 1945-1954 ,Vietnamese
People's Armed Forces shotdown or destroyed 435 French aircraft. On October 26, 1967, during the Vietnam War
John McCain,, then a US Navy pilot, was
shot
down by an anti-aircraft missile on a mission against a Hanoi power plant
and parachuted wounded into Trúc Bạch Lake, nearly drowning. He was dragged out
of water and mauled by a mob. A monument celebrating the downing of "Tchn Sney
Ma Can" was erected at the western shore on Than Niên Road; McCain saw it on his
first journey to Vietnam in 1985
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