Bean Camp to Briar Patch-Life in the POW Camps of Korea and Vietnam - Softcover

Powers, John N

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9780615427317: Bean Camp to Briar Patch-Life in the POW Camps of Korea and Vietnam
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0615427316 ISBN 13: 9780615427317
Publisher: Cronin Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Bean Camp to Briar Patch is the only single source in which you can find information on conditions in all the major POW camps of Korea and Vietnam. It presents a detailed overview of the POW experience and the camps they were held in. Each camp is described and conditions in the camp explained. Treatment of the POWs in the camp is discussed. In some cases the POWs held in a specific camp are listed. The average American has little knowledge of what those men, and sometimes women, went through. By trying to understand what they endured we honor those who sacrificed so much. We have too long ignored this debt.

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About the Author

John N. Powers was a Staff Sergeant in the US Air Force, serving in Intelligence Operations with a B-52 unit in the Strategic Air Command and with F-100/F-4 units in Vietnam and Europe. Using the GI Bill, he earned a Bachelor's degree in American history and secondary education and a Master of Science in Teaching degree in elementary education from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Powers taught for thirty one years, most of that time teaching American history. He currently works part-time as an emergency room coordinator. In 2002 he began researching the Prisoner of War history of 203 US Marines who were captured in north China as Pearl Harbor was being attacked. His wife's father, Platoon Sergeant Harold A. Hoffman, was one of those men. That research led to the establishment of the web site northchinamarines.com. The American Ex-POW organization then asked if he would write about POW camps in Korea and Vietnam. Work on those projects led to the realization there was no single source for family members of POWs from those wars to find information on camps and conditions in those camps. Powers considers that web site and this book to be a continuation of his teaching career-with a much larger classroom.

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Publisher
Cronin Publications
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0615427316
ISBN 13 
9780615427317
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
214
Rating
  • 3.62 out of 5 stars
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