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Nine years. Colonel Floyd "Jimmy" Johnson survived the longest stint as prisoner of war in United States history. He was a member of a Special Forces team whose assignment was to gather intelligence. He was operating out of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, when, in March 1964, he went on an observation flight over enemy positions. Johnson kept asking the pilot to fly lower so he could have a better view, when suddenly the plane was fired upon and crashed. The pilot was killed and Johnson was taken prisoner. The colonel was subjected to long periods of physical and mental torture.