Were there still POW's in Vietnam way after the war ended, and if so what became of them?

Question

Please only answer if you are a Nam vet or really know the answer

Answer 1

That is still one of the big mysteries..Sorry I am not a nam vet however I really feel for you who where in that horrendous war.
I have heard there was loads left I put mystery has no one will admit it,The governments,

Answer 2

The possibility of POWs remaining is fairly good. The probability is relatively low. The large number of MIA would indicate there is a distinct possibility. Since Vietnam has been cooperating with casualty resolution for decades, very unlikely the official government is complicit in retaining POWs. Many of the non Vietnamese tribes retain control of geographic portions of Vietnam. These areas outside Vietnamese control cross the border into Cambodia and Laos. These areas are all locally considered to be part of a regional Indochina under French cultural influence. Some American military members have been sighted in therse areas as late as the mid 1980s. No sightings recently.

Answer 3

That's what the M.I.A. - P.O.W. Organization have been trying to find out since the end of the Vietnam war.

An estimated 2,500 were classed as M.I.A. - P.O.W.

Missing In Action - Prisoner of War.

http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/flag/1bfb_disp9c.html

As the biggest percentage of the missing are aircrew it has been speculated that the north Vietnamese traded them to Russia in exchange for equipment and other vital war supplies, if so once they were interrogated by the KGB the chances of being kept alive in a Russian Siberian located POW Camp are virtually zero.

Answer 4

Even now, every now and again, Vietnamese villagers will unearth the remains of a US soldier and send it to Washington for DNA identification. Although, I guess they would more accurately be deemed MIAs not POWs. Although I did hear that several POWs ended up staying in Vietnam voluntarily as citizens and denounced their US citizenship in protest--- are living there still with new families and all.

Answer 5

There were no POWs left in Vietnam after 1973,
but there were approximately 1700 to 2000 that
were missing in action after 1975. We are still looking for them. We have returned remains of
US Military personnel since then. The Vietnam government are helping the USA try to find the rest of the remains. I do not believe that there are
any more missing in action over there. If that was possible, we would have found them by now. In Vietnam, there were countless places to hide.
US ARMY(RETIRED) 1958 - 1979
Vietnam Veteran 1967 - 1968 - 1971
Dau Tieng, Tay Ninh, Chu Chi, Bearcat, Long Binh

Answer 6

I heard that some POWs stayed in Nam after the war and because they had been so heavily brain-washed became in effect what is legally called 'traitors'. In common English lets just call them 'turn-coats'.


I have seen some such on TV - my immediate impression of them is that they were 'pathetic'. How can you sell you own country and people to a lie - no matter what?

Answer 7

I sure wish someone could answer that. There are still about 1800 MIAs in Vietnam. Why and where they are is left to the imagination. Chances are they died and their bodies were never recovered, I doubt or at least pray that none of them are still alive and being held anywhere.


POW MIA, you are not forgotten

SFC, US Army, Retired

Answer 8

There are still POW's and MIA's unaccounted for from the Vietnam war.

Answer 9

John McCain

Answer 10

Same thing that happened after the Korean war. Forgotten.

This is one of the things that bugs me about politics. NO ONE SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND.