Alcatraz Gang

The prisoners were shackled with legcuffs every night in 3-by-9-foot windowless concrete cells with the light on around the clock.

[2] Of Stockdale, Coker said "He was probably the strongest, most exemplary leader of the whole North Vietnamese POW environment".

Storz, debilitated from sickness and untreated injuries, was left behind and died in captivity on 23 April 1970.

[5] When all the POWs were released from North Vietnam in February and March 1973 (Operation Homecoming), so much had changed back in the United States that Coker (and Denton) said it was as if "... we weren't here (in America) at all.

[5] Many still have throbbing in joints from the rope torture and Coker's wife says, "In his sleep, he holds up 'the wall'".

LT George T. Coker, USN, shortly after his release from the POW camps in North Vietnam; March 1973.
Map annotated by former POW Mike McGrath (Navy pilot), indicating the location of Alcatraz and the Hanoi Hilton.