According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ... worked to treat those afflicted with leprosy within South Vietnam's largest ethnic minority, the Montagnards - a French phrase for "mountain ...
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 ...
In many ways, the violent experiences of the approximately 200,000 to 300,000 communist prisoners in South Vietnam can be compared to those of McCain. On both sides, prisoners were tortured ...
South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl ... The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, is out this month. Doug Hegdahl was just 20 and serving ...