Floyd James Thompson

Born 8 July 1933 in Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States

Died 16 July 2002 (aged 69)

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.