Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam

How two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.”—John McCain

Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vietnamese, tortured and intimidated by captors who tried and failed to get him to sign antiwar statements.

Porter Halyburton was a white southern navy flier who the Vietnamese threw into a cell with Cherry at the famous Hanoi Hilton, hoping that close quarters would inspire racial tensions to boil...