POW/MIAs
Prisoners?   Missing?   Hostages?   Detainees?   DUSTWUN?   Missing/Captured?   Forgotten?

Vietnam
All those noted as Prisoner of War, Missing in Action, Killed in Action/Body not Recovered, AWOL, PFOD, Remains Returned, or Returned Alive.

Remains Returned
Previously noted as POW, MIA, or KIA/BNR from Vietnam

The POW Issue
Notes, quotes, links, statistics, information, media headlines - all wars

Last Known Alive
The men and women listed have all been administratively declared dead despite the fact they were "last known alive" during Vietnam. 

History of the POW bracelet
 

When and how to
return a bracelet

LOVELETTERS
 from those who care - still wearing bracelets, decades after the losses during Vietnam

From a POW/MIA daughter, Diane Moore

 From a POW/MIA sister, Donna Elliot

Order a POW Bracelet
POW/MIA, remains returned or KIA

What to Do
Books, Movies, Newsletters

19 NEW POW CASES
2006

The Torturers - NVN
DIA -North Vietnamese Personnel  
associated with U.S. Prisoners of War

Hanoi Jane  
aka
Jane Fonda

Pueblo Incident
The history of those held Prisoner of War when the USS Pueblo was captured by the North Korean's in 1968.
List of those held
 

The Butterfly Effect
A bit over 45 years ago – on 23 January 1968 – the USS Pueblo was seized in international waters by North Korean forces.   It was only the second US Navy ship to be captured by enemy forces since the War of 1812 (the river gunboat USS Wake was captured by Japanese forces on 8 December 1941).  It remains on the roster of US Navy ships today....

China
Those held by China 1952-1968
and
April 2-April 11, 2001

William  R. Higgins and http://ojc.org/higgins/
  Marine Col on mission for UN in Lebanon, was taken hostage on February 17, 1988.  He was murdered sometime during the next couple years and declared dead July 6, 1990.  Honored by the Navy, the USS HIGGINS DDG 76 was named in his memory. Awarded POW Medal 2003.

Iran
Captured, Held & Released by Iran in 2003

Marine vet held captive in Iran for 555 days
 Mar 5, 2013  -- DETROIT ­ The family of a retired U.S. Marine detained in Iran on espionage charges is begging for his freedom a year after his death sentence was overturned ....

John Hartley Robertson
[THE IMPOSTER]
Neither DNA nor fingerprints reportedly confirmed these claims.

Sgt BOWE BERGDAHL
America's forgotten POW
LAST SEEN ALIVE in captivity

Remains Returned and Casualties:

CONTACTS

POW CAMPS -  MAPS
maps courtesy
Geoff Liebrandt
Medical Media Dept
Cincinnati VA Medical Center

WWII Japanese POW Camps

WWII German POW Camps

Korean War POW Camps 

North Vietnamese POW Camps

The Archive:

Is he really an ex-POW?   
Did the serviceman from my P.O.W. bracelet come home?   
I have a term paper due on Vietnam and Korean POWs,  can you help? 
 What men from MY state are missing?

Answers to these questions and more can be found by leaving e-mail for the P.O.W. NETWORK. The NETWORK has "word search" capability for more than 60,000 off-line files and more than 3600 Vietnam POW/MIA biographies.  Information is available on POWs from WWII, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Somalia and Yugoslavia. Your question is researched and answers or documents returned by e-mail. 

We have information on all Vietnam and Korea KIA's. There are NO biographies. Please provide name, date, town or state  that you would like information for. Many UNITS are unavailable  for Vietnam KIA's. Information will be provided by email.