12 and April 4, 1973, U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifters flew 54 missions into Hanoi, North Vietnam, to pick up 591 American prisoners of ... denied entry to what is still the largest party ever ...
With the end of the war and the release of the POWs, many decided to tell their stories about life as a prisoner in Vietnam. Perhaps the worst of the North's prisons, this facility was built to ...
After the war in Vietnam ended, the American public was told that all of our POWs had been returned and accounted for. But we know that was not the case. The Defense Intelligence Agency ...
In many ways, the violent experiences of the approximately 200,000 to 300,000 communist prisoners in South Vietnam can be compared ... testified that «if they’re alive, they’re automatically ...
Soldiers who called themselves 'tunnel rats' fought an underground war in Vietnam through an intricate maze of hardened ...
With the end of the war and the release of the POWs, many decided to tell their stories about life as a prisoner in Vietnam. Perhaps the worst of the North's prisons, this facility was built to ...
was serving with the Navy on a warship off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 when he fell overboard – paving the way for him to become the youngest, lowest-ranking US POW at the Hanoi Hilton ...
A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, is out this month. “He somehow figured out the way to survive and did it against all odds and succeeded against anybody ...
They become buddies while still ... South Vietnam when their helicopter is shot down and they are captured by the Viet Cong and marched to a remote jungle camp. There, they become prisoners ...