service member imprisoned during the Vietnam War was captured near Quảng Trị, South Vietnam when an L-19/O-1 Bird Dog observation plane flown by Captain Richard L. These missing personnel would become the subject of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue.

still listed roughly 1,350 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action and sought the return of roughly 1,200 Americans reported killed in action, but whose bodies were not recovered. prisoners began to be repatriated, and return flights continued until late March. On February 12, 1973, the first of 591 U.S. Īmerican POWs in North Vietnam were released in early 1973 as part of Operation Homecoming, the result of diplomatic negotiations concluding U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam became a subject of widespread concern in the United States, and hundreds of thousands of Americans wore POW bracelets with the name and capture date of imprisoned U.S. prisoners in North Vietnam, the most widely known of which was Hỏa Lò Prison (nicknamed the 'Hanoi Hilton'). Thirteen prisons and prison camps were used to house U.S. civilians were also held captive during the war. prisoners were captured and held in North Vietnam by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) a much smaller number were captured in the south and held by the Việt Cộng (VC). service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen a relatively small number of Army enlisted personnel were also captured, as well as one enlisted Navy seaman, Petty Officer Doug Hegdahl, who fell overboard from a naval vessel. Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973.

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