
Floyd James Thompson
ActingJuly 8, 1933-July 16, 2002
Birth Place
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.