Col. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris and his wife, Louise, will have been married 60 years on Dec. 5. "Tap Code: The Epic Survival Tale of a Vietnam POW and the Secret Code That Changed Everything" tells his ...

TUPELO • Retired Air Force Col. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris, whose capture and subsequent imprisonment during the Vietnam War were documented in his autobiography, “Tap Code,” has died. He was 96. Harris ...

Harris, a retired Air Force pilot, debuts with a forthright account of his eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and the WWII-era code he taught his fellow detainees so they could communicate ...

One of the most important parts of a POW's life was communicating with his fellow captives. The first communication between isolated prisoners of war may have been a name scrawled on a piece of toilet ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — In 1973—two years before the official end of the Vietnam War — hundreds of American prisoners of war were finally released from North Vietnamese prison camps. Among the most ...