
Dave Carey – POW – Part 3
Dave Carey talks about his experience as a POW for 5 1/2 years during the Vietnam war.

Dave Carey talks about his experience as a POW for 5 1/2 years during the Vietnam war.

On September 9, 1965, Admiral James Stockdale’s A-4 Skyhawk jet was shot down in Vietnam. He was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese and spent the next seven years being tortured and subjected to unimaginable loneliness and terror. Fortunately, three years earlier, he was recommended a book. That book, he says, saved his life. After twenty years in the navy, Stockdale decided to go back to school. He enrolled in a two-year graduate program at

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


In this 1992 interview, Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel, who was a Vietnam War POW for six years, documents how thousands of Americans were left behind, many still alive even today.