A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary
From the Naval Academy to the POW camps of Vietnam to Capitol Hill and possibly to the White House — one of America’s most remarkable menIn 1998, at the dedication of the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, former Attorney General Griffin Bell, a Democrat, introduced Senator John
One of two American pilots held by the Chinese as prisoners during the Vietnam War recounts his seven years in captivity and reveals how his discipline and adherence to the POW code of conduct pulled him through the ordeal. Original. Views: 954
Black Prisoner of War chronicles the story of James Daly, a young black soldier held captive for more than five years by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese and subsequently accused (and acquitted) of collaboration with the enemy. One of the very few books about the Vietnam War by an African
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. civil rights and peace movements, Forest of Darkness chronicles the harrowing story of American Special Forces Staff Sergeant James E. Jackson, who was on this third tour as a CIDG advisor when he was captured in July of 1966 and held for 16 months in
