Mike McGrath was a 27-year-old Navy pilot when he was shot down over North Vietnam and taken to a prison in Hanoi – what the POWs sarcastically called the "Hanoi Hilton." Part of the prison, salvaged ...

During the Vietnam War, American POWs were systematically tortured at a prison camp they sarcastically dubbed the "Hanoi Hilton." Now, salvaged remnants of the prison have been reconstructed as part ...

Everett Alvarez Jr. spent eight years at the North Vietnamese Hỏa Lò Prison, a POW camp notoriously known as the Hanoi Hilton, during the Vietnam War. The U.S. Navy officer’s tenure there is ...

It was April 6, 1967, when 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell overboard, off the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Canberra and into Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. He spent hours in the ...

When the number of former prisoners of war receiving benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs nearly doubled without explanation, an American survivor of the “Hanoi Hilton” wanted answers.

Bill Robinson of Lenoir City, Tennessee, remembers being put in a hole filled with water at the bottom. It was small enough in height to prevent sitting and standing up straight. Robinson once endured ...

He endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting, despite accounts to the contrary, that no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War. By Damien Cave Reporting from ...