An official said the amnesty will mark the success of the Communist Party Congress and the National Assembly elections.

A Vietnam POW, Leopold secretly documented fellow prisoners and smuggled the records out, then spent decades fighting for ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Vietnam War veteran Edward Hubbard spent six years as a prisoner of war, enduring conditions that would break most people. Today, he uses that experience to motivate others. The ...

SAN DIEGO — Fifty-three years after the end of the Vietnam War, veterans and supporters gathered aboard the USS Midway Museum to honor those who served, especially the 591 Americans who came home from ...

Authorities said 9,950 inmates will be freed in early June under an order signed by President and Communist Party chief To Lam.

Heroic Vietnam War veteran Robert Stirm — who appeared in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showing the excited reunion between the long-held prisoner of war and his family — has died, his family ...

Vietnam POW Warns Americans Not to Take Freedom for Granted ...

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — Dick Stratton, a Navy pilot and a prisoner of the Vietnam War who endured more than 2,000 days of captivity and torture in North Vietnam, has died at the age of 93. Stratton's ...

It’s the ultimate homecoming photo — a smiling family rushing to reunite with a U.S. Air Force officer in 1973 who spent years as a POW in North Vietnam, his oldest daughter sprinting ahead with her ...

Most of the POWs held in Vietnam had just been released that March after spending years in captivity, often in deadly, disease-ridden camps. Many POWs had starved and perished. Some had been tortured.

Retired Maj. Gen. Edward Mechenbier, right, talks with retired Naval Capt. Charlie Plumb, center, at an event hosted at the Air Force Academy in February 2026. Mary Shinn, The Gazette Retired Navy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governor Newsom proclaimed Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day as San Diego honored former prisoners of war aboard the USS Midway.