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Phú Quốc Prison

PrisonClosed 1973Stub
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  • Aerial view of Phu Quoc POW Camp at An Thoi.jpg

    Photo by SP6 Eugene M. Randon via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • An Thoi POW camp.jpg

    Photo by NARA photo 111-CCV-4-CC50252 by SP6 Eugene Randon via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Barbed wire encloses the security compound discipline barracks.jpg

    Photo by SSG Richard S. Hiwa, Jr. via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Barracks in the POW compound area.jpg

    Photo by Lt. Ronald Steiner via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Barracks Phu Quoc PW Camp, January 1973.jpg

    Photo by NARA photo 111-CCV-436-CC86309 by Lt. Ronald Steiner via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Convoy carrying POWs leaves Phu Quoc POW camp.jpg

    Photo by SSG DeLaurier via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Fence and guard tower.jpg

    Photo by Lt. Ronald Steiner via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Fersenbein eines Vietkong mit Nagel-1.jpg

    Photo by RolfBerndArnold via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

South Vietnamese military prison and POW camp during Vietnam war \[ [edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ph%C3%BA_Qu%E1%BB%91c_Prison&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: History")\] The prison was built in 1949–1950 by French colonialists as a place to detain political dissidents. During the [Vietnam War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War "Vietnam War"), it was used for the detention of [Viet Cong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong "Viet Cong") and [North Vietnamese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vietnam "North Vietnam") prisoners of war. The prison covered an area of 40,000 square metres (0.015 mi2). During the [Tet Offensive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive "Tet Offensive") in early 1968, 2,665 POWs escaped after attacking the fenceline, few

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1949

Closed 1973

Facility profile

Operator

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1949

Region

Kiên Giang

Security level

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Death-row facility

No

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