U.S. military women had seldom been taken prisoner before Iraq claimed it captured several Thursday. During World War II, 81 U.S. nurses were taken prisoner by the Japanese when they seized Bataan and ...

Kristin Hannah was in elementary and middle school during the Vietnam War. The father of one of her close girlfriends was a pilot whose plane was shot down, and Hannah started wearing his POW bracelet ...

Despite being thousands of miles away, Wyoming felt the impact of the Vietnam War. During the war, many American troops were taken as prisoners of war and many went missing. Wyoming resident Major ...

Many prisons used to hold American POWs were in close proximity to Hanoi, with a few of the more well known jails located directly in Hanoi. American prisoners spent years living in these ...

YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) – U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the ...

“The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah says of her earliest inspiration for her new novel, “The Women.” “My friends’ fathers were serving, and in fact, my best friend’s father ...