POW camps for Communist (NVA/VC) Prisoners of War were operated by the South Vietnamese Government: See website: Prisoner-of-war Camps.
Nearly 2,000 US servicemen were POW/MIA during the war.
Around 20 million people survived the Vietnam War.
Prisoner of war, usually said as POW camp.
1973; one of Nixon's 3 phases of withdrawal: We'll cease fire, get our POW's back, then leave the country.
McCain was a POW during the Vietnam war.
During war, when fighting against recognized nations; POW=Prisoner of War. During the Vietnam War, US POWs wore striped prison uniforms.
I wore a POW bracelet with the name of a soldier missing on it.
Less than one thousand POWs. They were released in 1973.
North Vietnam's prison for US POW's? Or South Vietnam prisons for communist POWs?
MIA/POW approximately 2,000.
POW camps for Communist (NVA/VC) Prisoners of War were operated by the South Vietnamese Government: See website: Prisoner-of-war Camps.
Nearly 2,000 US servicemen were POW/MIA during the war.
Vietnam consisted of four wars: The Air War over North Vietnam; the Riverine War in South Vietnam; the Ground War in South Vietnam; and the Covert War in Laos & Cambodia. Nearly all of the 600 plus US POW's consisted of shot down pilots and aircrewmen. These men were shot down over North Vietnam while fighting the "air war."
McCain was a POW for over 5 years in a Prisoner of War camp near the capital of Hanoi in North Vietnam. The POW camp was nicknamed, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Arizona Senator John McCain served during the Vietnam War and as a POW was a prisoner for five and a half years .
Vietnam war made Vietnamese people having to do highest their effort to catch developed country.Maybe 100 years to be America now.