Many became victims of the increasingly brutal Vietnam War. If the average American had to name a hero of recent history off the top of their head, the name John McCain would probably be high on ...

For many Americans, the POWs' return home marks the final chapter of the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. South Vietnam falls to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. After thirty years of ...

With the end of the war and the release of the POWs, many decided to tell their stories about life as a prisoner in Vietnam. Perhaps the worst of the North's prisons, this facility was built to ...

Hỏa Lò Prison was one of the most notorious prisons that held many Americans in the Vietnam War. Read on to uncover its ...

Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War hero and former prisoner of war ... She had become very active in the movement to find a way to have the POWs in Vietnam released. She later was appointed by ...

Hegdahl was eventually one of 12 Vietnam War prisoners who accepted an early release by the enemy. Some of the POWs left behind, Leepson writes, saw the men who took an early release as ...

Captured and at the mercy of an increasingly cruel enemy, German-born US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was left with no choice but to attempt a daring escape from the Pathet Lao prison camp in which he ...

"The war in Vietnam was not lost on the ground or in ... enduring what I had to go through — although nothing like long-time POWs. But my little crucible of hell was enough.

This year, Redmon traveled back to Hanoi with a group of former prisoners of war, many of whom had flown ... Years After Their Release, Former Vietnam POWs Journey Back to Hanoi” here (https ...

Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country, state or territory ruled over by another country, state or territory. before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two.