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Search results for "American prisoners-of-war" ...

  • The Unreturned

    An examination of the fate of American combatants secretly taken into the Soviet Union during the Korean War.

    Tags: Korean War; POWs; KGB; Soviet Union; Sabre; Siberia; U.S. Air Force; American prisoners-of-war; Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office; Memorial Society

    By Ralph F. Wetterhahn

    The Retired Officer Magazine (Long Beach, Calif.)

    2002

  • Is John McCain a War Hero?

    This article examines presidential candidate Senator John McCain's war record and focuses on the time he spent as a prison of war in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It also investigates "a small but vocal subculture of Americans who claim that McCain is anything but a war hero.... Most of these individuals' claims dissolve under scrutiny, but their anguish over their loved ones' fate is real, and so is the animosity with McCain that exists both ways."

    Tags: POW/MIA Craig Willbanks Colonel Earl Hopper Patty Hopper crusade accusation obsession Manchurian Candidate zealots

    By Amy Silverman

    New Times (Phoenix)

    1999

  • No title (id: 9215)

    Time magazine investigates the question of American prisoners of war left in Southeast Asia; looks into the individual cases of several missing-in-action servicemen as well as the groups that solicit money from family members of POW/MIA's; reveals the hunt for missing Americans in Vietnam is little more than a corrupt enterprise that takes advantage of the false hopes of the families.

    Tags: None

    By None

    Time Magazine

    1992

  • No title (id: 7367)

    KIRO-TV (Seattle) uncovers declassified Pentagon and CIA documents confirming Soviet kidnapping of Americans during WW II; prisoners of war were never accounted for and are believed to be alive, May 24 - Sept. 24, 1990.

    Tags: TAPE; WA Sauter Zettler

    By None

    KIRO-TV (Seattle)

    1990