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self-reliance and toughness
sports enjoyed by
World War II and
Dramesi, John (Colonel, Retired)
Dramesi, John (pilot) “Lover Lead.”
See also
Dramesi, John (POW); F-105D Thunderchief “Thud”
A-1 Skyraider “Sandy,” 41-43
air strikes
“down on the deck,” 28
escapes from POW camp at Stead Air Force Base
forward air controller (FAC)
high-arc bomb launching
in-country experience of
nuclear weapons
out-country experience of
overseas deployment plan of
POW training of
punching out (ejection)
reporting for duty
Route Packages (RPs)
secondary target
shooting during an escape
solo (first)
speed and altitude, bug for
T33 trainer
training
truck park bombing mission near Package One (Ba Don)
Dramesi, John (POW).
See also
Camp Unity; Code of Conduct; Dramesi, John (pilot) “Lover Lead”; Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison); North Vietnamese; Operation Thunderhead; prisoners of war (POWs); resolve of Dramesi; Vietnam War; Zoo Annex Prison; Zoo (Cu Loc Prison)
ammunition bunker prison of
bamboo twine, untying
capture by North Vietnamese
carried by North Vietnamese
Caucasian moving unnoticed through Asian population
“diehard,” 64
disguise of
escape, planning
escape by
exaggerating injuries
food (starvation diet)
imagination and torture
interrogation sessions
isolation box
leeches on
lying by
medical care
mistakes made by Dramesi
mud for darkening skin
“people catch people,” 40-41
punching out (ejection)
recapture of Dramesi
resolve of Dramesi
“rice and buffalo,” 69-70
rope torture
search-and-rescue units
silo prison of
sleep/sleep deprivation
survival radio
torture
water, need for
wing commander's name revealed to North Vietnamese
wintergreen, saved by
wounds of
Dry, Melvin S. “Spence” (Navy SEAL)
“dumdum” (expanding bullets)
dungeon, Room #2 (Heartbreak Hotel) at Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
 
Edwards, Tom (UDT)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (President)
ejection (punching out)
electric shock torture
enlisted men and officers (familiarization), Navy SEALs
enslavement of POWs
escape (Article III, Code of Conduct)
escape interrogations
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Zoo (Cu Loc Prison)
escape planning
Camp Unity
difficulty of
Dramesi's first
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Zoo Annex Prison (“the Party”)
escapes by POWs.
See also
opposition to escape by POWs; recapture of escapees
Atterberry and Dramesi from Zoo Annex Prison
Coker and McKnight from Dirty Bird (Yen Phu Prison)
Dramesi's first
Nazi Germany and
Stead Air Force Base, Dramesi
exchanging POWs
Executive Order 10631
expanding bullets
 
F-4C
F-80 (P-80)
F-84E
F-86
F-100 Super Sabre
F-105D Thunderchief “Thud.”
See also
Dramesi, John (pilot) “Lover Lead”
“downtown,” going
Dramesi as test pilot
losses during Vietnam War
multiple ejector rack (MER)
“pulling the trigger,” 37
punching out (ejection)
“reverse-swept-back” air intakes
“smash,” 8
speed of
“Thud Ridge,” 7-8
F-105F Wild Weasel
FAC (forward air controller)
fan belt torture
fear of soldiers
Fellowes, J. H. (POW )
“Ferdinand” (guard)
“Fidel” (torturer)
fight-or-flight reaction of soldiers
Film Studio, the (Pha Phim).
See also
Zoo (Cu Loc Prison)
Fleenor, Ken (POW )
food (starvation diet)
Dirty Bird (Yen Phu Prison)
Dramesi's first experiences
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
improvement at Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
POWs
Zoo Annex Prison
Zoo (Cu Loc Prison)
Fort Lewis (Washington)
forward air controller (FAC)
“Foundry” (Dirty Bird Annex, Dirty Bird West)
4th Infantry Division
Franz Ferdinand (Archduke of Austria)
Friday the Thirteenth
friendly-fire at USS
Grayback
Frogmen
Fulbright, William J.
 
Gaylor (Admiral, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet)
Geneva Convention
Germany
Golden Key of Dramesi
Golden Nugget in Little Las Vegas
“Goose” (torturer)
Gray, Dave (POW)
Great War (World War I)
Green, Charlie (POW ) grenade launchers (40mm)
Guarino, Larry (POW )
Gulf of Tonkin
gun batteries (152mm)
Gurry, Ken (Dramesi's wingman)
 
Habus
Haddonfield High School (New Jersey)
Hague Peace Conferences
Haiphong Harbor
Hankins, D. R. (Navy SEAL)
Hanoi
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison) .
See also
Camp Unity
air strikes, sounds of
Al Meyer (POW) and
bowing demands
“Bug” (torturer)
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison) (
continued
)
communication among POWs
“criminal” accusations
“diehard,” 90
disinfecting Room #18
Edwin Lee Atterberry (POW ) and
escape interrogations
escape planning by Dramesi
fan belt torture
“Ferdinand” (guard)
food, improvement in
food (starvation diet)
George G. McKnight (POW ) and
George T. Coker (POW ) and
Golden Key of Dramesi
Golden Nugget in Little Las Vegas
“Goose” (torturer)
Heartbreak Hotel
interrogation sessions of Dramesi
Konrad W. Trautman (POW) and
lack of torture
leg-iron shackles torture
Little Vegas
lock-smithing project, Dramesi
lying by Dramesi
medical care
morale boosters
personal hygiene
prisoner release ploy by North Vietnamese
relief from leg-iron shackles torture
relief from stock torture
resolve of Dramesi
Room #18 “Meathook Room,” 92-106
rope torture
senior ranking officer (SRO)
sleep/sleep deprivation
solitary confinement of Dramesi
“special food,” 119
stocks torture
tap conversations of POWs
third escape attempt by Dramesi, death threat by North Vietnamese
torture at
traveling irons
water, need for
wrist shackles torture
writing demands
hatred of Americans by North Vietnamese
Heartbreak Hotel, Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Heiliger, Don (POW)
helicopter casting technique
Helicopter Support Squadron Seven (HC-7)
“Hell Ships,” 17
Hertsic, Doug (UDT)
Hetzell, Richard C. (Navy SEAL)
HH-3A Sikorsky Sea King helicopters
HH3 Jolly Green Giant transport helicopter
hiding from North Vietnamese
high-arc bomb launching
Hoa Lo Prison.
See
Hanoi Hilton
Ho Chi Minh, death of
Ho Chi Minh room at Zoo (Cu Loc Prison)
Holloway (Vice Admiral, Commander of the Seventh Fleet)
Hooke, Robert M. (Navy SEAL)
Hourglass River
Hurlburt Field Air Force Base (Florida)
Hush Puppy pistol (Mark 23 9mm)
 
“I” in International Morse Code
Imperial Japanese Empire
International Red Cross
interrogation sessions
Camp Unity
Dramesi, John (POW )
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Zoo Annex Prison
Zoo (Cu Loc Prison)
iodine pills, darkening skin
 
Japan and Geneva Convention
Johnson, Lyndon (President)
 
Kadena Air Base (Okinawa)
Kasler, James H. (POW)
Kennedy, John F. (President)
Kernan, Joseph D. (Rear Admiral, Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command)
“Kid Crazy/K. C.” (guard)
killed, fear of being
kindness shown to Americans by North Vietnamese
Knudson, Eric A. (Navy SEAL)
Korat Air Base (Thailand)
Korean War
 
leadership (Article IV, Code of Conduct)
leg-iron shackles torture
leg irons on POWs
Little Creek (Virginia)
Little Vegas at Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Lockheed T33 trainer
lock-smithing project of Dramesi
Long Bien Bridge (Paul Doumer Bridge), Hanoi
Lutz, John (UDT)
lying by Dramesi
 
M16s
M60D machine guns
M61 Vulcan cannon
M117 750-pound bombs
machine guns (14.5mm.7mm)
“Magoo” (guard)
maps for escapees
March Field Air Museum (California)
Marine Force Recon units
Mark 42 mount with five-inch gun
Mark VII Mod 6 (SDVs)
Martin, Philip L. “Moki” (Navy SEAL)
McConnell, Steve (UDT)
McDaniel, Red (POW)
McGrath, Tom (UDT)
McKenzie (Captain)
McKnight, George G. (POW)
Camp Unity
Dirty Bird (Yen Phu Prison)
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
“Meathook Room” (Room #18) at Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Medal of Honor recipient
medical care
Dirty Bird (Yen Phu Prison)
Dramesi's first experience
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Zoo Annex Prison
Mekong Delta and Navy SEALs
Memorial Hall of the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland)
“men in green faces, the,” 201.
See also
Navy SEALs
Meyer, Al (POW)
Middle Ages and POWs
MiGs
minigun (7.62mm)
minus tide and SDVs
missing in action
mobile training teams (MTTs), Navy SEALs
Moorer, Thomas (Admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
morale boosters
Camp Unity
Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo Prison)
Zoo Annex Prison
Zoo (Cu Loc Prison)
movement of POWs by North Vietnamese
mud for darkening skin
Mullen, Michael G. (Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff)
Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (South Carolina)
 
name, rank, and serial number (Article V, Code of Conduct)
NASA and Blackbirds (SR-71)
“Nasty” boats
Naval Special Warfare Western Pacific Detachment (WESTPAC)
Navy SEALs.
See also
Operation Thunderhead
airborne (parachute) insertions
“blue-and-golds,” 270
Bright Light operations
casualties
counterguerilla units
demolition operations
enemy personnel killed by
frogmen
hiding in any terrain, masters of
history of
intelligence sources of
last Navy SEAL killed in action during Vietnam War
launch-and-recovery training
maintenance of equipment, importance of
mapping of South Vietnamese coastline
Mekong Delta and
“men in green faces, the,” 201
mobile training teams (MTTs)
“Nasty” boats
never leaving anyone behind
night ambush masters
nighttime insertions training
North Vietnamese knowledge
observation and listening post missions
officers and enlisted men, familiarization
operations order (op-order)
platoons
rescue missions of American POWs by
Rung Sat Special Zone (RSSZ) and
SEAL Team One
SEAL Team Two
SEAL WESTPAC DET (West Pacific Detachment)
South Vietnamese and
speed of reaction of
squads
swim buddies
Thai special operations and
training for Operation Thunderhead
Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) and
Viet Cong (VC) and
Navy Seawolves

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