Photos: Sen. John McCain through the years
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(Original Caption) North Vietnamese claimed to have shot down and captured U.S. Navy flier Lt. Commander John Sydney McCain, shown in file photo, son of Adm. John S. McCain, Jr., Commander of American Naval Forces in Europe. He was said to have been aboard a two-man F4 Phantom fighter shot down by a surface to air missile over Hanoi.