<P> Floyd James `` Jim '' Thompson ( July 8 , 1933 -- July 16 , 2002 ) was a United States Army colonel . He was the longest held American prisoner of war in U.S. history , spending nearly nine years in captivity in the jungle camps and mountains of South Vietnam and Laos , and in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War . </P>
<P> Floyd James `` Jim '' Thompson ( July 8 , 1933 -- July 16 , 2002 ) was a United States Army colonel . He was the longest held American prisoner of war in U.S. history , spending nearly nine years in captivity in the jungle camps and mountains of South Vietnam and Laos , and in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War . </P>
who was the longest held pow in vietnam
who was the longest held pow in vietnam
Floyd James
Floyd James