SL "I don't suppose those who were so critical of Powers would have considered using their own Service issued Revolver to shoot themselves in the Head to prevent their deciding to talk while being tortured would they."
Gladly I have had no such experience and certainly no criticism of those who lived through it. I appreciate what they suffered through and glad they survived, though many did not. The reality, as reported by many of them, is that indeed while most will reveal something, the trick is to reveal as little as possible, even to mislead where possible. So I judge not - the residents of the Hanoi Hilton, nor Francis Powers - I tip my hat to them.
The point of my first post here was to merely give some sense of what the thinking was at the time, by those who have more than a little interest and background.