Retired Navy Capt. Gerald L. "Jerry" Coffee used a lectern on the Pentagon's parade ground Friday to tap out the code U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam used in their cells every night to shore up ...

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 • 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 ...