The Unlikely War Hero by Marc Leepson HARDBACK 9780811772921
In April 1967, twenty-year-old Doug Hegdahl was knocked overboard from a U.S. Navy cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. Initially believed to be a special ops commando, he was turned over to North Vietnamese who beat him and then turned him over to the prison known as the Hanoi Hilton, where Hegdahl maintained a ruse of being a country bumpkin who couldn\u2019t read or write. The North Vietnamese called him \u201CThe Incredibly Stupid One,\u201D and guards paid no attention to Hegdahl as he proceeded to memorize information about more than 250 prisoners, which he memorized to the tune of \u201COld MacDonald Had a Farm.\u201D Offered release in the summer of 1969, Hegdahl balked\u2014the POW code stipulated that prisoners should be released in the order of capture\u2014but was ordered to accept so that he could provide his
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In April 1967, twenty-year-old Doug Hegdahl was knocked overboard from a U.S. Navy cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. Initially believed to be a special ops commando, he was turned over to North Vietnamese who beat him and then turned him over to the prison known as the Hanoi Hilton, where Hegdahl maintained a ruse of being a country bumpkin who couldn\u2019t read or write. The North Vietnamese called him \u201CThe Incredibly Stupid One,\u201D and guards paid no attention to Hegdahl as he proceeded to memorize information about more than 250 prisoners, which he memorized to the tune of \u201COld MacDonald Had a Farm.\u201D Offered release in the summer of 1969, Hegdahl balked\u2014the POW code stipulated that prisoners should be released in the order of capture\u2014but was ordered to accept so that he could provide his
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In April 1967, twenty-year-old Doug Hegdahl was knocked overboard from a U.S. Navy cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. Initially believed to be a special ops commando, he was turned over to North Vietnamese who beat him and then turned him over to the prison known as the Hanoi Hilton, where Hegdahl maintained a ruse of being a country bumpkin who couldn\u2019t read or write. The North Vietnamese called him \u201CThe Incredibly Stupid One,\u201D and guards paid no attention to Hegdahl as he proceeded to memorize information about more than 250 prisoners, which he memorized to the tune of \u201COld MacDonald Had a Farm.\u201D Offered release in the summer of 1969, Hegdahl balked\u2014the POW code stipulated that prisoners should be released in the order of capture\u2014but was ordered to accept so that he could provide his
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A Vietnam War POW\u2019s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton
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Brand | Stackpole Books |
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Language | english |
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