Strange Flowers on the Diplomatic Vine; U.S. Detainees in Cambodia

American War Library – Life as a POW: The Vietnam War

When American troops were sent to train South Vietnamese soldiers in their fight against the North Vietnamese, the United States was drawn into the battle. More than 800 U.S. military and civilian men and women became prisoners of war and endured severe torture and abominable living conditions. Post Views: 744

Finally, Home

Eastern Iowa farm boy Dan Hefel tells of his military service during the Vietnam War with elaboration provided concerning combat in the jungles and mountains of South Vietnam as a member of the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile), duty as a Huey helicopter door gunner, being taken prisoner and his survival

The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos

In 1968, during a forty hour period, the Air Force flew 189 sorties to rescue a Navy A-7 pilot, call sign Streetcar 304, in one of the largest rescue efforts of the Vietnam War. Before it ended, four pilots had ejected, seven planes were lost or heavily damaged, and, at

Leave No Man Behind: Bill Bell and the Search for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War

“Leave No Man Behind” is the powerful story of Garnett “Bill” Bell’s quest, at great personal cost, to find and bring home the POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the Vietnamese Communists and his fluency in various regional dialects, he penetrated the system the

P.O.W. Two Years with the Vietcong

George Smith spent two years as a POW moving from camp to camp in the middle of the jungle. Impressed from the beginning by Vietcong military proficiency, he slowly overcame his Green Beret “arrogance” and learned to see the VC as people-warm, just, humane, sincere and so highly motivated that

Strange Flowers on the Diplomatic Vine; U.S. Detainees in Cambodia

Other Books You Might Be Interested In

American War Library – Life as a POW: The Vietnam War

Finally, Home

The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos

Leave No Man Behind: Bill Bell and the Search for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War

P.O.W. Two Years with the Vietcong

Contact Us

Follow Us