The Unlikely War Hero: One Vietnam War Pow's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton

by Marc Leepson

On April 6, 1967, twenty-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell off his ship, a guided-missile cruiser, in the Gulf of Tonkin. Close to exhaustion after nearly four hours in the water, he was picked up by a small fishing boat and soon found himself in Hỏa L Prison, the notorious North Vietnamese POW camp the prisoners called the Hanoi Hilton. Under intense interrogation, Hegdahl pretended to be a country bumpkin who could...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811772926
• ISBN13: 9780811772921
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 240 Pages