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United States military prisoners of war (POW) held in Southeast Asia from 1964 through 1973 were held longer than any previous group of American POWs—an average of 5 years, compared to the 3 years for World War II POWs, 2 years for those held in North Korea during the late 1950s, and approximately a year for the Pueblo crew (1960s). Those men held the longest in Southeast Asia were imprisoned there for almost 9 years.
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Hunter, E.J. (1993). The Vietnam Prisoner of War Experience. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_24
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