Floyd James Thompson
| 8 Jul 1933 | Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States
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Death date: 16 Jul 2002
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.