Captain James B. Stockdale (upper right) returns home in 1973 after more than seven years of captivity in North Vietnam. Stockdale (later a Navy Vice Admiral) was tortured and endured four years of solitary confinement at the hands of his captors. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for “his willingness to give up his life rather than capitulate.”
Instrument of Surrender of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands
Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
