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Floyd James Thompson

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Born

8 July 1933

Died

16 July 2002 (aged 69)

Birthplace

Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States

Also known as Jim Thompson · Major Floyd Thompson · Floyd Thompson

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.

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