Last year the U.S. captured over 4.000 troops. according to Pentagon figures. What we know about North Vietnamese handling of prisoners in the past is not encouraging. The experience of the French after Dien Bien Phu at the hands- of the Vietnamese Communists was anything but pretty. Most POWs who survived the Communist camps emerged as walking skeletons looking like refugees from Buchenwald or Dachau. Of course. the most critical moment for every POW is the moment of capture. In the heat of battlefield anger there is always a strong tendency to shoot down the enemyeven one with his hands up.
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