Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo) American POWs gave Hoa Lo, perhaps the best known of all the North's prison camps, the ironic tag of "Hanoi Hilton." The French occupiers of Vietnam had built it at the turn ...

Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country ... just off the coast of North Vietnam, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. This provoked President Johnson into retaliating with military ...

Among the many weapons in North Vietnam’s anti-aircraft arsenal ... air”—comparing it to their decisive defeat of colonial French ground forces in 1954. After peace talks stalled, the ...

The French tried to take control again ... The elections were never held and the country remained divided: North Vietnam was a communist republic led by Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam was a capitalist ...

On Oct. 26, 1967, McCain's Douglas Skyhawk fighter jet was shot down over North Vietnam, crash-landing behind enemy lines. The wounded lieutenant commander was then taken to the notorious Hoa Lo ...

The exhibition features over 50 black-and-white photographs by French photographer Marc Riboud. It is being held by Les amis de Marc Riboud (Marc Riboud’s friends association) to commemorate Vietnam’s ...

Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo) American POWs gave Hoa Lo, perhaps the best known of all the North's prison camps, the ironic tag of "Hanoi Hilton." The French occupiers of Vietnam had built it at the turn ...