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 ...

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 ...

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 • A story of courage in a Vietnam POW prison and on the home front is this year’s selection of the Tupelo Reads community reading program. “Tap Code,” by retired Air Force Col. Carlyle “Smitty” ...

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 ...