The Myth of the Lost POWs (1985) | The New Republic
WEBThe Myth of the Lost POWs. Real-life Rambos have no one to rescue. Ten years after America’s withdrawal from Vietnam, President Reagan has made the recovery of 2,477 American soldiers “the...
Dieter Dengler’s Great Escape from Laotian POW Camp - HistoryNet
WEBJul 12, 2010 · On February 1, 1966, German-born U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant (j.g.) Dieter Dengler’s A-1 Skyraider was shot down over Laos during a secret bombing mission. A day later, while attempting to signal rescuers flying above heavy jungle territory controlled by the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese Army regulars, Dengler was captured.
Abandoned in Laos - Raven S
WEBWhen the United States withdrew the last of our fighting forces from Vietnam on March 28, 1973, Americans that were then prisoners from secret operations in Laos during the Vietnam War were abandoned to the Lao Patriotic Front, the political group of whom the Pathet Lao were the fighting forces.
Statistics regarding POW's in Laos - Vietnam War POW's
WEBJul 4, 2024 · While there were other American servicemen captured in Laos and Cambodia during the SEA conflict, the group of seven servicemen and three civilians in the LULU group was one the NVN identified for “separate” treatment.
Covert CIA Search in 1981 Found No POWs in Laos, Documents …
WEBAug 6, 1992 · Senior Reagan Administration officials believed in 1981 that about 100 American POWs could have been left behind in Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, but efforts to rescue them were...
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Preserving the history of America’s ‘secret war’ in Laos - NBC News
WEBMay 16, 2022 · A new initiative is aimed at raising awareness about a dark and often forgotten chapter of U.S. history: the secret bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War.
An Honest Man Says POWs Live in Laos - Beyond the Killing Fields
WEBOct 30, 1992 · Since 1990, he has been trying to rescue living American prisoners from Laos. Studdert says his investigations and trips to Laos have convinced him that men are still alive there. “I read a lot of data through three presidencies,” he said in an interview in New York recently.
ALLEGED AMERICAN POWS IN LAOS | Library of Congress
WEBALLEGED AMERICAN POWS IN LAOS. 1985. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/powmia/pwmaster_27064/>.
The "Hanoi Hilton" and Other Prisons > National Museum of …
WEBPOWs in Laos were often kept in cages, huts or caves, and lack of food and water was common. Some POWs captured by Viet Cong guerillas were held in South Vietnam and Cambodia. One out of three Americans taken prisoner by the Viet Cong died from disease, injury, or by execution.