Sơn Tây prison camp
| Sơn Tây prison camp | |
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Sơn Tây prison camp in late 1970 | |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | People's Army of Vietnam |
| Condition | abandoned |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 21°08′41″N 105°29′45″E / 21.1446°N 105.4958°E |
| Site history | |
| In use | 1960s–1970, 1975 |
| Battles/wars | Sơn Tây raid |
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The Sơn Tây prison camp was a POW camp operated by North Vietnam near Sơn Tây and approximately 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi in the late 1960s through late 1970 and again in 1975. About 65 United States prisoners of war were held there during the middle of the Vietnam War. It was later used to house foreigners captured in South Vietnam during the 1975 spring offensive.