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 ...

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

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 ...

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest or most costly conflict, but its effects were deep and long-lasting. Its unpopularity polarized the country; its cost made it difficult to ...

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 ...

Vietnam experiences of Navy vets from Florida helped Keith Saliba tell his "Crucible" story of America at war in the pivotal year of 1972.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A graduate of the US Naval Academy, McCain followed both his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the Navy, where he served as a bomber pilot in the Vietnam War. On October 26 ...

"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.