South Vietnam's POW camps, particularly during the Vietnam War, were characterized by harsh conditions and severe treatment. Detainees often faced overcrowding, inadequate food, and poor sanitation. Many prisoners endured physical and psychological torture as part of interrogation methods. Despite these challenges, some POWs managed to maintain morale and solidarity among each other, forming bonds that helped them survive their captivity.
POW camps for Communist (NVA/VC) Prisoners of War were operated by the South Vietnamese Government: See website: Prisoner-of-war Camps.
Prisoner of War (POW) camps dotted North Vietnam (as they did in South Vietnam). The Hanoi Hilton was but one of them. It, like nearly all of the POW camps located in North Vietnam, contained shot down US airmen.
Handed them over to US intelligence and the ARVN; ultimately to POW camps located thru-out the Republic of South Vietnam.
There were 13 US named POW camps; all within the vicinity of Hanoi (Capital of N. Vietnam): Alcatraz, Briarpatch, Camp Faith, Plantation, Rockpile (not to be confused with the "Rockpile" battle area in South Vietnam), Skidrow, Zoo, Camp Hope, Dirty Bird, Dogpatch, Farnsworth, Mountain Camp, and the Hanoi Hilton.
McCain was a POW during the Vietnam war.
John McCain spent 6 weeks in a POW camp hospital. Overall, he spent 6 years in Vietnamese POW camps.
yes. most of the time visiting was prohibited in POW camps.
The PoW (Prisoners of War) were kept either in PoW Camps or in some Concentration Camps such as Auschwitz.
Yes, in Sioux Falls and Yankton. Edit: The Sioux Falls and Yankton camps were branch POW camps of the main POW camp in Algona Iowa. The POW camp in Algona had a total of 34 branch camps in IA, MN, SD and ND. There was also main POW camp in Igloo SD that administered six branch POW camps in western SD, including POW camps at Ft Meade (near Sturgis) and Belle Fourche. POW's did much of the stone work on the grounds of the Ft. Meade VA hospital and they were used for farm labor in the wheat and beet fields in the area.
POW camps for the Japanese, but NOT in the Pacific. In the United States itself were POW camps held. They were for the Japanese whom were deemed spies for the Japanese government.
North Vietnam's prison for US POW's? Or South Vietnam prisons for communist POWs?
pow? enough said