A thoroughly enjoyable first-hand account of Smith’s search for American MIAs in 1990s Vietnam.
On May 14, 1961, Grant Wolfkill, a news cameraman for NBC, watched the signing of a cease fire agreement in Laos. The following day his helicopter crashed, and he was captured by the Pathet Lao. For fifteen months, he was to be their prisoner – a prisoner of peace. Post
“Rising above extreme adversity was the common response from those with whom I served in North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camps. Dave Carey, a truly motivational individual, describes in heartbreaking detail his experience and, much more importantly, the lessons he learned from that experience and has applied in his life. His is
Here, Colonel Halllooks back, reflecting 30 years later on his years in a prisoner of war cell. And, He answers the question: was it worth it? Was the war against the communists in North Vietnam worth seven years of his life, and the lives of thousands of other young Americans.
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
Battered, but not broken. For nearly eight years, Paul Kari was beaten, tortured, starved, and held captive in squalid jungle prisons as one of the more than 600 American POWs of the Vietnam War. Two things kept hope for the Ohio farm boy turned U.S. Air Force fighter pilot: His
