Memoirs of a POW of the Vietnam War
PRISONERS OF HOPE: A GATHERING OF EAGLES
A remarkable book that is well researched and gives the reader a deep sense of the sacrifices of our Vietnam POWs. Post Views: 248
Memoirs of a POW of the Vietnam War
A remarkable book that is well researched and gives the reader a deep sense of the sacrifices of our Vietnam POWs. Post Views: 248
During the Vietnamese New Year celebration of 1968, citizens of the free world were indignant to learn of an attack made by North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong upon South Vietnamese cities and towns…an attack in which several Protestant missionaries were murdered and others kidnapped. In this book the authors
“As an American asked to serve, I was prepared to fight, to be wounded, to be captured and even prepared to die, but I was not prepared to be abandoned. It is that one American is not worth the effort to be found, we, as Americans, have lost.” These are
Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle “Smitty” Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965 and taken to the infamous Hoa Lo prison–nicknamed the “Hanoi Hilton.” For the next eight years, Smitty and hundreds of other American POWs–including John McCain and George “Bud” Day–suffered torture, solitary confinement, and unimaginable
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. Post Views: 297
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