To this day, little is known in the West about the fate of the more than 200,000 Vietnamese prisoners of war who fell ... shot down over North Vietnam, crash-landing behind enemy lines.

But the POW refused to leave his fellow prisoners behind. McCain's subsequent ... service and nearly six years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. And McCain's survival through years ...

Lt. Col. Donald Downing was reported killed in action in April 1978 after going missing in Vietnam in September 1967.

With the end of the war and the release of the POWs, many decided to tell their stories about life as a prisoner in Vietnam. Perhaps the worst of the North's prisons, this facility was built to ...

These individuals were killed on the battlefield unseen, or died as prisoners ... missing in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia at war's end. "Our nation has an obligation to stand behind those who ...

Between Feb. 12 and April 4, 1973, U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifters flew 54 missions into Hanoi, North Vietnam, to pick up 591 American prisoners of war captured by the North Vietnamese and Viet ...