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
Thompson on Easter Saturday in 1975
Operation Homecoming
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Operation Homecoming was the return of 591 American prisoners of war held by North Vietnam after the Paris Peace Accords, which ended United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Floyd James Thompson
…American for over five years. In January 1973, Thompson was transferred to Hỏa Lò Prison. He was released with the other POWs in mid-March 1973 in Operation Homecoming. The years following Thompson's release were not happy ones. His troubled life was chronicled in an oral biography called Glory Denied by Tom Philpott…
US Army Captain John William Parsels, at Gia Lam Airport, was repatriated during Operation Homecoming.
Locations of POW camps in North Vietnam
The Hoa Lo Prison, commonly referred to as the "Hanoi Hilton" by American POWs, in 1973
Navy pilot Phil Butler is welcomed home by his family after seven years and ten months as a POW in North Vietnam.