Floyd James Thompson

Born

1933-07-08

Died

2002-07-16

Birthplace

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.