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Bookmark or Share- United States prisoners of war during the Vietnam WarMembers of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973.
- Home - Vietnam War POW'sThe experience of U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) during the Vietnam War was marked by extreme hardship, resilience, and survival under brutal conditions. American POWs were often held in various camps, the most infamous being the Hoa Lo Prison, notoriously known as the “Hanoi Hilton.”
- American prisoners of war in Vietnam tell their storiesThis paper seeks to examine the experiences of Vietnam POWs, both those held in the jungles of South Vietnam and those in the Hanoi prison camps of North Vietnam based on POW narratives consisting of memoirs, autobiographies, and interviews.
- POW/MIA | Vietnam War - Pritzker Military Museum & LibraryEvery war has prisoners, yet Vietnam stands out as unique in the American psyche. Nearly fifty years later, the prisoner of war issue remains a principal part of the American collective memory of the Vietnam War.
- Vietnam and POWs: How many POWs returned, how many are still missingThe Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lists 684 POWs returned home alive from the Vietnam War — the majority after the U.S. pulled out of the war in 1973. (The war officially ended April 30,...
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