The "Hanoi Hilton" was not a hotel. It was a "nick-name" for a (concrete building) prison in Hanoi (the capital of N. Vietnam), were US POW's were kept. Nearly all of whom were airmen who had been...
It is also called the Hoa Lo Prison. The nickname came from US prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. It was built by the French in the late 1800s as a prison for Vietnamese rebels and criminals...
Prisoner of War (POW) camps dotted North Vietnam (as they did in South Vietnam). The Hanoi Hilton was but one of them. It, like nearly all of the POW camps located in North Vietnam, contained shot...