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  2. United States prisoners of war during the Vietnam War

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    Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...

  3. Vietnam War POW/MIA issue - Wikipedia

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    The National League of Families' POW/MIA flag; it was created in 1971 when the war was still in progress. The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia was created by Sybil Stockdale, Evelyn Grubb and Mary Crowe as an originally small group of POW/MIA wives in Coronado, California, and Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1967.

  4. List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in ...

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    This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]

  5. Operation Homecoming - Wikipedia

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    On February 12, 1973, three C-141 transports flew to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and one C-9A aircraft was sent to Saigon, South Vietnam to pick up released prisoners of war. The first flight of 40 U.S. prisoners of war left Hanoi in a C-141A, which later became known as the "Hanoi Taxi" and is now in a museum. Locations of POW camps in North Vietnam

  6. List of prisoners of war - Wikipedia

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    Jeremiah Denton – awarded the Navy Cross for resistance in captivity during the Vietnam War; Roy Dotrice – British actor; John A. Dramesi – USAF Colonel, Vietnam POW, lead the only organized escape from the Hanoi Hilton with Edwin Atterberry; Werner Drechsler – killed by fellow German POWs during WWII for informing on other prisoners

  7. Wives of Vietnam POWs Were Told to Keep Quiet About Their ...

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    If the women dared to discuss it, their government warned them, the men might be badly treated or even executed

  8. Floyd James Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (July 8, 1933 – July 16, 2002) was a United States Army colonel. He was one of the longest-held American prisoners of war, spending nearly nine years in captivity in the forests and mountains of South Vietnam, Laos, and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

  9. List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in ...

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    This article is a list of U.S. MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1968–69. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]

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