Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Downey and Richard Fecteau were in a plane destroyed over Manchuria during the Korean War, have been in captivity for more than 17 years. Air Force Captain Philip E. Smith was captured while on a reconnaissance mission along the China coast in 1965, and Navy Lieut. Robert J. Flynn was imprisoned after being shot down when his plane strayed across the Chinese border during a combat mission over North Viet Nam in 1967. In addition, Navy Lieut. Joseph Dunn, whose plane was downed off the island of Hainan in 1968, may be a prisoner...
...correspondents have returned from such missions (TIME, April 20). Still missing last week were eight correspondents, including TIME Photographer Sean Flynn, who disappeared while covering the hostilities in Cambodia...
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During the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War -one of his sidetracks-Flynn and another reporter scavenged a Soviet recoilless rifle in the Sinai desert, hitched it to their Volkswagen and took off, with visions of donating it to a Tel Aviv discotheque. The Israeli patrol that intercepted them had other uses for it. On assignment covering Richard Nixon in Indonesia last July, Flynn rented a beach house in Bali. A remarkably gentle man, despite his daredevil reputation, he had fallen in love with the serene simplicity of the island and decided to remain there indefinitely. He returned to Saigon last...
Diplomatic Efforts. Flynn's Saigon roommate, Cameraman Stone, 30, a short, sardonic Vermonter, was once a lumberjack and merchant mariner. When he went to Viet Nam in 1966, Stone took up photography as a means of seeing the war. A veteran of many hair-raising operations, he soon gained a reputation that gave him as many assignments as he could handle. "There may be other, more famous photographers with greater technical skill in Viet Nam," says TIME Correspondent David Greenway, "but there are none with more courage and initiative than Stone and Flynn...