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 ...

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 ...

One of the most important parts of a POW's life was communicating with his fellow captives. The first communication between isolated prisoners of war may have been a name scrawled on a piece of toilet ...

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” ...