Hoa Lo Prison Relic
Former colonial-era prison and Vietnam War POW site, now a museum behind its original gatehouse.
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This guide to the Hoa Lo Prison Relic in Hanoi centers on pilot John McCain's capture after ejecting over Truc Bach Lake on October 26, 1967, and his years inside the prison French colonists called Maison Centrale, later nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton. It traces how the French built the prison to hold Vietnamese independence fighters before it held American airmen, and the moment his captors learned who his father was and offered him a way out. A gatehouse near the lake is nearly all that remains of the walls that held him.
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