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Atterberry prior to his 1967 shootdown and capture.

Nobody knows for sure exactly how or when U.S. Air Force Captain Ed Atterberry died. On May 10, 1969, he and a fellow prisoner of war escaped from a brutal Hanoi prison. They were recaptured the next day, and both men were tortured horribly. Their North Vietnamese captors claimed Atterberry died May 18 of an unspecified illness, but his fellow POWs were convinced he died in torture. His remains were returned to the U.S. in March 1974 and he was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

THE PARTY DOLLS is the story of his escape and death.