This ‘On the Record™’ dual biography shares the experiences of two American soldiers taken as Prisoners of War: Everett Alvarez in Vietnam and Shoshana Johnson in Iraq.
The first published investigation into whether US prisoners of war were left behind in Southeast Asia after the Vietnam war. Post Views: 720
The result of five years of research, First Heroes untangles an intricate web of information and ultimately concludes that the prisoners of war that were held captive in Southeast Asia were forgotten or ignored by their own country. Author Rod Colvin crisscrossed the country interviewing military and government officials, veterans, returned POWs,
Despite their insistence that the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops was the condition for the release of prisoners of war, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam took little action to account for American POWs at the end of the Vietnam War. Almost two decades would pass following the end of the
On March 23, 1961, Bob Bailey became the first American prisoner of war in Southeast Asia. A combat veteran of World War II and Korea, Bailey was assistant Army attache in Laos when communist Pathet Lao guerrillas shot down the unarmed C-47 transport plane in which he and seven companions
Self memoir of Richard “Pop” Keirn’s captivity in Germany during WW II and Hanoi during the Vietnam War, Post Views: 407
