By playing dumb, Doug was able to outsmart an entire army and provided valuable information after being rescued.

Some of the most vivid images of the Vietnam War included the emotional return of American prisoners of war held captive by ...

This month marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. A Colorado man has a unique perspective on ...

U.S. Navy sailor Doug Hegdahl was knocked off of the USS Canberra in the Gulf of Tonkin by a blast from the ship's massive ...

An Air Force pilot who shared a bond—and a prison cell—with the late Sen. John McCain is now sharing his story, as the nation ...

The Minneapolis police Drunk-O-Meter, a machine that determines whether a motorist is intoxicated, will be demonstrated at ...

Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo) American POWs gave Hoa Lo, perhaps the best known of all the North's prison camps, the ironic tag of "Hanoi Hilton." The French occupiers of Vietnam had built it at the turn ...

Prisoners were rounded up in the "Hanoi Hilton," the facility in which American prisoners had first experience captivity. Conditions were as bad as returned soldiers had remembered them.

John McCain tells People Magazine that he survived over five years as a POW through his 'Faith in God, my fellow prisoners, and my country' Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on ...

How the “Hanoi Hilton” prison looked just before William Reeder’s release in 1973. Reeder is being held behind the middle window. William Reeder Jr., who served two tours in Vietnam as a U.S ...

That was a given,” Swindle said. He would spend the next 2,305 days as a prisoner at the infamous Hanoi Hilton, confined in brutal conditions where torture and starvation were common.