my question is a breakdown of united states soldier prisoner of war escapes during WWII, korea and vietnam war
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YOU MIGHT TRY MILITARY.COM FOR ALL STATISTICS ON POW'S AND THEIR ESCAPE TO FREEDOM AS A VET ISAW SOME BUT NOT ENOUGH TO GIVE FULL DETAIL USMC 1966 - 1972
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about wars, specifically the Vietnam war.
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When the military establishments wants to install loyalty, spirit d’ corp and romance they come up with something like “leave no soldier behind”.  Take a look at WW II How many of you knew that more than 25,000 of our WWII American POW/MIAs were "liberated" near the end of WWII by Soviet Red Army troops as they advanced through Eastern Europe and the eastern part of Germany? How many of you knew that ONLY 4165 of those American servicemen "liberated" by the Soviet Red Army in WWII ever came home? (That’s less than 1/5 of those men!)  How many of you knew that General Eisenhower had lists of these brave American fighting men who had been "liberated" by the Soviet Red Army at the end of WWII, and that he and top levels of the U.S. government "WROTE OFF" these men who had bravely served their country, leaving them to ROT in Soviet gulags?\nHow many of you knew that in the Korean War we had 7190 POWs, and that ONLY 4428 were ever repatriated? How many of you knew that there were OVER 8000 men MIA from the Korean War?\nHow many of you knew that there were OVER 2400 POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War, and that these men are now listed as "PFOD" (Presumptive Finding of Death)?\nHow many of you knew that a U.S. Army colonel serving at the Defense Intelligence Agency (Colonel Millard A. Peck, Infantry) requested to be "retired immediately" from active military service because of the Pentagon’s cover-ups of any evidence that surfaced showing our POW/MIAs were still alive? (Colonel Peck had been the Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing In Action.) ((NOTE: The Pentagon’s cover-up of the POW/MIA issue CONTINUES to this very day!))\nHow many of you were aware that CBS’s "60 Minutes" assigned Monika Jensen-Stevenson to do a segment on the POW/MIA issue; however, when she discovered irrefutable evidence that American fighting men were STILL being held in Laos, Vietnam, and the "former" Soviet Union, CBS REFUSED to air that segment! (Jensen-Stevenson quit her job at CBS and pursued the POW/MIA story on her own, later writing a book entitled Kiss the Boys Goodbye.)\nquote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it." \nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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This may seem too simple, but the best way to find the information that you're looking for is to talk to other Vietnam Vets. Good places to find them is at a local VFW or a Veteran's hospital. \n\nMy father server in Vietnam as well, and has only recently opened up about what happened to him there. I've herd the same happening with many other Vietnam Vets too. Something about the recent Iraq War has triggered many of them to talk after more than 30 years of wanting to forget about what happened. \n\nI have family in Vietnam to include uncles that served on both sides of the war. They seem to be easier about letting the past go than the American veterans. One of my uncles served almost ten years in a communist prison, had all his arms and legs broken many times and had his eye ripped out of his head. Even he has let the war go into the past. \n\nAnotehr good place to look is the Internet. There are hundreds of Web sites that haev very good information about the Vietnam War with the ones supported by veterans having the most accurate information. Don't bother with the government supported sites - they're still lying aobut what happened. \n\nGood luck with your reseasrch!
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vietnam \nIndo-Pak war 1971
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Cute_Blondie seems to have a pretty thorough answer there.  My question is do you mean the Vietnam War that the US fought in or is there another war called the Vietnamese War?
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try military history website thats your best way to get it right
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hi\nas i recall there weren't any American or Canadian soldiers involved the battle in mainland China except the Aviation Volunteer Group during WWII\nhow did he end up in China??  \ni hope you can be more specific \nafter the eight-year-war in China against the Japes \nChina soon got into civil war between the communist and the nationalist until 1949\nas an important economy site, Shanghai has been destory badly\nafter civil war China then join the Korean War\n\nso I would say that the info about the POW camp during WWII can hardly be found \n\nbut i am now working it
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I can get you halfway there.  There are 58,249 listed on the Vietnam Wall.  This number includes people who were missing (MIA, POW, etc).  The site below will give you statistics on the wall's length.\nI know 62 million people were killed in WW2 (but that's world-wide, not just Americans).  Once you find out the number of American's, all you have to do is divide the number of people and multiply to determine the WW2 wall's length.
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Excellent. In the darkest days of World War 2 the American public began to become disgruntled about being in the war. After reports of thousands of troops dying sometimes daily, many parents of fallen soldiers began to actually write dissenting letters to the generals and and other governmental leaders. But our government made the decision to stay the course and continue to absolute victory. And now, despite the heavy losses, history has vindicated our involvement in the war as being a great triumph over tyranny. The same can be said about our leaders resolve for victory during the darkest days of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.\n\nSince then, the government gave in to public pressure during the Korean and Vietnamese wars; both of which the military could have ultimately come out victorious. In fact, commanders in the field in Vietnam will tell you that we were not losing the war. In counting casualties, we lost 58,000 troops killed to an astonishing over 2 million Vietnamese. \n\nThe problem is, just like after 9/11, Americans are all patriotic and ready to fight - until the body bags start coming in. You can't win a war like this. In WW2 our leaders fought on despite the pain of losses. Once complete victory and success has been achieved in Iraq, history will vindicate it as a war worth fighting as well. If we just pack up and leave because of public pressure, then just like Vietnam this current conflict will go down in American history as a failure.
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Try to Yahoo Search US Army Units-Vietnam 1966-1970 and also Yahoo Search 468 Transportation Battalion- Vietnam '66-'70. That might do it for you.
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WWII service is described as Dec-7-1941 through Dec-31-1946, which means you are classified as a peace time veteran.  \n\nPeace time veterans can belong to the VFW providing they qualified for Campaign Medals for qualified service in different areas of the world.  Examples would be Navy or Army Occupation Service Medals for Japan, Italy, Germany, Korea, and others.
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Go to this web site http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/index.html
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Contact the veterans Administration, or contact your local military base(Unit historian section) and ask him/her for any information.
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Zero. In the 90s Senators John McCain (a former POW) and John Kerry went on a fact finding tour of Vietnam and issued a bipartisan report  finding that Vietnam was not holding any POWs. For most of the reality based world, the Vietnam war has been over for over thirty years. There is no reason to hold POWs after a war is over.
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you can find a list at The American War Library\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib46.htm
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The Korean War (1950 to 1953) was the last American conflict involving segregated units of the arced forces, i.e. the US Army. 3 American infantry divisions -- the 25th, the 2nd, and the 3rd -- contained black combat units during 1950/51.\n\nAmong the 25th Division's 3 infantry regiments was the Army's last black 24th Infantry, the largest black unit to serve in Korea. (The 24th Infantry was also the Army's only 3-bn regiment in action during initial weeks of the war. Other American regiments 1st committed to action from peacetime occupation duty in Japan contained only 2 bns.) Accompanied by the black 159th Field Arty bn and the black 77th Engineer Combat Co, the 24th Infantry arrived in the Korean Combat Zone beginning 7-13. On 7-20 the 24th's 3rd Bn, reinforced by a battery of the 159th and a platoon of the 77th, was the 1st 25th Division element to go into action at Yechon. In an extraordinary 2-day action hailed around the world as the US' initial Korean War victory, the reinforced bn drove the enemy from the town and recaptured it at a cost of 2 Americans killed and 10 wounded in action to at least 258 enemy dead.\n\nSubsequently, the 24th Regimental Combat Team:\n\nHeld the most vital part of the Pusan Perimeter Aug/Sep, taking and retaking Battle Mountain 19 times in 30 days \nLed portions or 25th Division's breakout and advance westnorthward to the outskirts of Seoul mid-Sep \nAdvanced in North Korea to within a few miles of the Yalu River during late Nov, and then staged a fighting withdrawal as the Chinese entered the war astride the Chongehon River and in the vicinity of Kunuri \nCrossed the Han River near Seoul with 2 other 25th Division regiments on 3-7-51 (an important part of what UN Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway characterized years later as "the most successful single action fought by troops under my command during either World War II in Europe, or in Korea") \nCrossed the Hantan River northeast of Seoul alone 4-11 in the face of determined resistance from a superior enemy occupying the commanding terrain \nStormed the heights above Mando and ejected the enemy from fortified positions with a bayonet charge and hand-to-hand fighting with hand grenades, mid-Sept 1951. \nDuring early Aug 1950, the 9th Infantry Regiment's black 3rd Bn and the black 503rd Field Arty Bn arrived in Korea with other 2nd Division elements. Initially, the black bn, a black arty battery, a tank company, and a company of engineers were detached and withheld front frontline action and assigned to guard an airfield near Pohang. In early Sep heavy combat losses among the 9th Inf's 2 white bns led to the assignment of some 200 black soldiers as individual replacements, a practice heartily endorsed by the regimental commander, Col. Charles C. Sloane Jr. During mid-Sept, having been introduced gradually to combat action near Pohang and elsewhere, the 3rd Bn rejoined in time to strengthen the 9INF in attempting to break out from the Pusan Perimeter.\n\nDuring late Nov the last segregated 24th Division (on the right of the 25th Division) and the 1st integrating 9INF (on the left of the 2nd Division) advanced in northernmost North Korea side-by-side astride the Chongchon River. On 11-25, hit more heavily (than the 24th, the hardest hit of the 25th Division's regiments) by the Chinese, the 9INF fought extraordinarily well as 2 integrated and 1 segregated bn, the latter temporarily reinforced 2 nights running by 2 rifle companies separated from the 24th's fighting 2nd Bn. By the night of 11-29 the 9INF had been reduced to some 600 effectives as had its sister 38th Infantry. On the morning of 11-30, these 600, spearheading the 2nd Division's desperate attempt to withdraw south from Kunuri, surrounded by the enemy, were virtually wiped out and the 2nd Division was effectively destroyed. But a rebuilt 9Inf, thoroughly integrated, thereafter acquitted itself well in action after action