John McCain spent 5½ years in captivity
as a POW in North Vietnam. His first-person account of that
harrowing ordeal was published in U.S. News in May 1973.
Shot down in his Skyhawk dive bomber on Oct. 26, 1967, Navy flier
McCain was taken prisoner with fractures in his right leg and both
arms. He received minimal care and was kept in wretched conditions
that he describes vividly in the U.S. News special report:
This story
originally appeared in the
May 14, 1973, issue of U.S.News & World
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