Everett Alvarez Jr.
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Everett Alvarez Jr. is a retired United States Navy officer who endured one of the longest periods as a prisoner of war in U.S. military history. Alvarez was the first U.S. pilot to be shot down and d
Alvarez in February 1973, speaking after his release from captivity
Lieutenant Commander Everett Alvarez Jr., "Welcome Home" sketch by combat artist Dante H. Bertoni.
Alvarez in 2012
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Floyd James Thompson
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Floyd James "Jim" Thompson was a United States Army colonel. He was the longest-held American prisoner of war, spending nearly nine years in captivity in the forests and mountains of South Vietnam, La
Everett Alvarez Jr.
…down and detained during the Vietnam War and spent over eight years in captivity, making him the second longest-held U.S. POW, after U.S. Army Colonel Floyd James Thompson. Alvarez was born in 1937 in Salinas, California. He is the grandson of immigrants from Mexico. He went to Santa Clara University on an academic…
Thompson on Easter Saturday in 1975