Commander Ralph Gaither’s look back at his 7 years as a Vietnam POW.
The incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a documentary (Little Dieter Needs to Fly)
Recounts the capture and imprisonment of Al Stafford, relating the torture, humiliation, and loneliness he endured, how he resisted the Vietnamese efforts to break him, and his life in the U.S. following his release Post Views: 936
In early 1973 Vietnam released 591 American POWs in Operation Homecoming as part of the Paris Peace Accord. There were always suspicions that not all POWs were accounted for. For nearly twenty years between 1973 and 1993 the POW families petitioned the American government to negotiate with Vietnam to locate any POWs
The stories of eight former prisoners of war, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, released by Viet Nam after years of captivity, based on interviews with them, and with the wife of a still missing man. Photographs. Index. Post Views: 752
In describing his seven and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, the late Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale has said: “In that atmosphere of death and hopelessness, stripped of the niceties, the amenities of civilization, my ideas on life and leadership crystallized.” Despite torture, intimidation,
