Search results 1 - 5 of 5 for the tag Prisoner of War (POW)
A hero returns home
Navy Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale (upper right) returns home in 1973 after more than seven years of captivity in North Vietnam. Stockdale (then a captain) was...
Almost free
John McCain, a naval aviator, was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese while flying a bombing mission on October 26, 1967. Held for five and a half years,...
Captured
This is a photograph of a group of Confederate prisoners. The Civil War was the first large and prolonged conflict recorded by the camera. Mathew Brady and other...
Prisoners of war
This photo, taken in 1914, shows a large French prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.
Punishing an enemy’s termity
Commodore Edward Preble wrote this letter to the Secretary of the Navy on September 18, 1804. This letter records the actions Preble took to free captured American...
Search results 1 - 5 of 5 for the tag Prisoner of War (POW)