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 Lò Prison,
This is a narrative drawn from the era of the Southeast Asian conflict, detailing a unique event in that lengthy struggle. The event was called LINEBACKER II, a nickname like thousands of others, used to identify an operation, project, or mission associated with military affairs. It so differed from the
On January 23rd, 1967, Lt. Colonel Barry Bridger and his copilot, Dave Grey, launched a mission over Vietnam in their Phantom F-4 fighter jet in treacherous weather. It was Colonel Bridger’s 75th mission and the only one he had attempted in the daylight hours. Suddenly, his plane was split in
Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Prisoner of War 2. The International Red Cross 3. Mail Regulations, Germany 4. Prisoner-of-War Camps: Germany 5. Americans in Italian Camps 6. POW Camps – Remainder of Europe 7. Japanese POW Camps 8. Prisoner-of-War Camps in the Philippines 9. Japanese Camps in the Home
An account of Dudman’s capture by two NLF members, two Cambodian guerrillas, and a North Vietnamese political officer. In the last analysis Forty days with the Enemy is about people–guerrilla fighters, Cambodian peasants, and three American journalists–who bridge divergent cultures and politics to find a common humanity Post Views: 648
