What was the Hanoi Hilton? the North Vietnamese military headquarters the target of American air attacks during the Christmas bo
mbing a prison built by the Vietminh to hold French soldiers captured at Dien Bien Phu the most notorious of the facilities in North Vietnam where American POWs were held
During the Vietnam War, the first U.S. prisoner to be sent to Hỏa Lò was Lieutenant Junior Grade Everett Alvarez Jr., who was shot down on August 5, 1964. ... The prison complex was sarcastically nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by the American POWs, in reference to the well-known Hilton Hotel chain.
