Executive Summary 5 Years and 8 Months is a groundbreaking multimedia memoir that captures the harrowing reality of 2,069 days in captivity through the actual voice of the man who lived it. Unlike traditional memoirs polished by time and editors, this project is built upon 18 raw, candid cassette tapes recorded by Col.
In the last year of the Vietnam conflict, even as American troops were leaving for home, there were still those fighting for their lives: prisoners of war being held in the Communist north. There were two operations launched to rescue the POWs. One—the legendary Son Tay Raid—was revealed to the public.
A US Naval Aviator’s odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America’s Great Depression in the heartland, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, American life following World War II, the Korean War, America’s development of atomic weapons in the Cold War age, the Bay of Pigs
Published in 1971, this is a collection of children’s letters to Hanoi seeking release of American prisoners of war. Views: 721
My memoir traces the events of my early life from 1962 to 1974 when my family found itself in the epicenter of the Vietnam War. When I was eleven years old my father, then Commander James Stockdale, was shot down and declared “missing in action” in September 1965. The emotional impact
