Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hỏa Lò Prison (Vietnamese: [hwâː lɔ̀], Nhà tù Hỏa Lò; French: Prison Hỏa Lò) was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the "Hanoi Hilton".
The Hoa Lo Prison, commonly referred to as the "Hanoi Hilton" by American POWs, in 1973. The culture of the POWs held at the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison was on full display with the story that would come to be known as the "Kissinger Twenty". One of the tenets of the agreed upon code between those held at the Hanoi Hilton stipulated that the ...
John Arthur Dramesi (February 12, 1933 – September 17, 2017) was a United States Air Force (USAF) colonel who was held as a prisoner of war from 2 April 1967 to 4 March 1973 in both Hoa Lo Prison, known as "The Hanoi Hilton", and Cu Loc Prison, "The Zoo", during the Vietnam War.
[4] Đỗ Mười joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1939, but was arrested by French authorities in 1941 [5] or 1942 and was sentenced for 10 years to forced labour at the Hoa Lo Prison. [4] He managed to escape in 1945, when the Japanese overthrew French rule of Indochina and established the Empire of Vietnam. [4]
A week later he was in his cell at Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi, in his own words a “crumbling heap of humanity tied up in ropes and lying near unconsciousness on the floor.” An air-raid siren ...
"Alcatraz" was a special facility in a courtyard behind the North Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, located about one mile away from Hoa Lo Prison. Each of the American POWs spent day and night in windowless 3-by-9-foot (0.91 m × 2.74 m) cells mostly in legcuffs .
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The 6th Binh Tan Battalion was tasked with attacking the Chí Hòa Prison in western Saigon. The battalion was to infiltrate the city from the west and establish a base of operations at Phú Thọ Racetrack and then launch their attack on the prison 1.5 km to the northeast. [1]: 343 [2]: 137