Daily Archives for 11 February 2015


February 11: First Release of American POWs from Vietnam

On 11 February 1973, the first round of American prisoners of war were released from Vietnamese prison camps. Thanks to the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, the Vietnam War finally came to a close. During this time American POWs were stuck in Vietnamese prison camps, faced with hellish conditions. The most famous of these camps […]