Doug Hegdahl, pictured in captivity around Christmastime in 1968, was serving with the Navy on a warship off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 when he fell overboard – paving the way for him to become the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — This month marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. A Colorado man has a unique perspective on the war: he was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese for ...

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 ...

History and pop culture have trained us to celebrate battlefield heroics and other forms of physical courage. Those actions are undeniably admirable, and in the past decade many Vietnam veterans have ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- History is being honored and remembered at the National Naval Aviation Museum with a new exhibit on Friday. The exhibit shines a light on what life was like for prisoners of war and ...

A retired U.S. Navy captain born and raised in Quincy, who also was one of the longest-serving POWs during the Vietnam War, will be buried in his hometown with full military honors, including four ...

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — Dick Stratton, a Navy pilot and a prisoner of the Vietnam War who endured more than 2,000 days of captivity and torture in North Vietnam, has died at the age of 93. Stratton's ...

The front-page newspaper photograph was striking on the morning of April 6, 1967 — a dramatic image showing the U.S.S. Canberra firing at Communist targets from the warship’s position in the Gulf of ...