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What Happened To American Prisoners of War in Korea
What Happened To American Prisoners of War in Korea Author:Sandy Strait When the American prisoners came home after the truce that ended the Korean War, there were a lot of nasty rumors about how our men did not do so well, how they collaborated with the enemy, how they dishonored themselves, how they did not have the discipline of the Turkish prisoners, how no American soldiers ever before had cracked the way our m... more »en did in Korea. The Pentagon made the men sign Circular 131 which prohibited them from speaking or writing about their experiences as prisoners in Korea. So the rumors persisted; the truth never came to light.
Now, here laid out in chronological arrangement is the full story as told by the survivors of the horror our men experienced as prisoners of war in Korea: the thousands murdered after capture, the deliberate torture, the privations, the lies, the propaganda, the indoctrination, protests, harassment and escape attempts, liberation, homecoming, a listing of the prisoners, the roll of those still missing, and a list of those known to have died in captivity.« less