Floyd James Thompson
Date of Birth:
Jul 08, 1933
Place of Birth:
Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States
Date of Birth:
Jul 08, 1933
Place of Birth:
Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States
Biography:
Floyd James "Jim" Thompson was a United States Army colonel. He was the longest-held American prisoner of war in U.S. history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in the jungle camps and mountains of South Vietnam and Laos, and in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.