A remarkable book that is well researched and gives the reader a deep sense of the sacrifices of our Vietnam POWs.
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In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put

Theodore Gostas was interned as a Prisoner of War in Southeast Asia after he was captured in South Vietnam on February 1, 1968 and was held until his release on March 16, 1973. Views: 593

The incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a documentary (Little Dieter Needs to Fly)

Glory Denied is the harrowing and heroic story of Floyd “Jim” Thompson, captured in March 1964, who became the longest-held prisoner of war in American history. Tom Philpott juxtaposes Thompson’s capture, torture, and multiple escape attempts with the trials of his young wife, Alyce, who, feeling trapped, made choices that forever

Told in the personal narratives of Monika Schwinn and Bernhard Diehl, it is the story of their survival in the prison camps during the Vietnam Conflict. Views: 1,169