Six men assigned to AFVN were taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, five specking about years in

Where is the most austere or arduous place you spent the holidays while deployed? (Hughes, Alcorn)
On 22 December 1965, on a combat mission over North Vietnam, I was shot down and captured. I spent Christmas on a concrete floor in a North Vietnamese prison, arms tightly bound behind my back. For eight holiday seasons I enjoyed “the humane and lenient treatment of the North Vietnamese people,”

