Podcast from the Richard Nixon Library and Foundation
50 years ago, 591 American prisoners of war were saved from North Vietnam. Hear their stories like never before.
https://capturedpodcast.com/
50 years ago, 591 American prisoners of war were saved from North Vietnam. Hear their stories like never before.
https://capturedpodcast.com/

Communist East German made propaganda film about American Prisoners of War held by the North Vietnamese.

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dog” Brenneman, pilot and Vietnam POW, shares his experience of being captured, kept prisoner and released from the Hanoi Hilton. Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John F. Gonge, commander and pilot, shares how the 22d Air Force executed Operation Homecoming in 1973. Kathy Freeberg, daughter of retired U.S. Air Force Col. Alan Leslie Brunstrom, pilot and Vietnam POW, shares stories of her father and his return. Operation



Robert Harper Shumaker is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy who went on to serve as rear admiral and naval aviator in the U.S. Navy. Shumaker is best known for his resilience as a prisoner during the Vietnam War, and for coining the phrase ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ in reference to the notorious North Vietnamese prison. During his captivity, Shumaker was instrumental in the implementation of the ‘tap code’ that the prisoners used to communicate