Gold Star Veterans : Archive of American Prisoners of War
Rules protecting POWs were formalized in the 1929 Geneva Convention. They were refined in the 1949 Geneva Convention, as well as the Additional Protocol of 1977. The United States Military Code of Conduct was established in 1955 to serve as a specific moral code for American armed services personnel captured by enemy forces.
Some statistics for American Armed Forces Service Members classified as Prisoners of War and those who died while captured. This includes both confirmed and approximate numbers.
★ World War I : 147 deaths of 4,000 POWs
★ World War II : 15,000 deaths of 94,000 POWs
★ Korean War : 2,700 deaths of 7,100 POWs
★ Vietnam War : 114 deaths of 1,500 POWs
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