Doug Hegdahl's Courageous Vietnam War POW Story and Prison Intelligence
In the annals of Vietnam War history, few stories are as quietly astonishing as that of Doug Hegdahl, a young U.S. Navy sailor who turned an apparent misstep into a masterclass in subterfuge. Captured in 1967 and imprisoned at the infamous Hỏa Lò Prison—better known as the "Hanoi Hilton"—Hegdahl pretended to be illiterate and intellectually…