page_title: Everett Alvarez Jr.
hierarchical_section_title: Everett Alvarez Jr.
caption_attribution_description: 330-CFD-DD-ST-99-04354: Former POW and U.S. Navy LCDR Everett Alvarez (Captured 5 Aug 64) talks at the microphones to the public and press there to greet the plane load of former POWs flown in from Clark Air Base. LCMDR Alvarez was released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on12 Feb 73, 2/1/1973. SSGT Phillip M. Porter. (OPA-NARA II-2016/02/08).
context_page_description: Everett Alvarez Jr. is a former United States Navy officer who endured one of the longest periods as a prisoner of war in U.S. military history. Alvarez was the first U.S. pilot to be downed and detained during the Vietnam War and spent over eight years in captivity, making him the second longest-held U.S. POW, after U.S. Army Colonel Floyd James Thompson.
context_section_description: Everett Alvarez Jr. (born December 23, 1937) is a former United States Navy officer who endured one of the longest periods as a prisoner of war (POW) in U.S. military history. Alvarez was the first U.S. pilot to be downed and detained during the Vietnam War and spent over eight years in captivity, making him the second longest-held U.S. POW, after U.S. Army Colonel Floyd James Thompson.
caption: Alvarez in February 1973, speaking after his release from captivity
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