Douglas Brent Hegdahl III is a former U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class. He was held as a prisoner of war by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. After an early release he was able to provide the names and personal information of about 256 fellow POWs. His story was featured on Season 6, Episode 15 of Comedy Central’s Drunk History.
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Douglas Brent Hegdahl III is a former U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class. He was held as a prisoner of war by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. After an early release, he was able to provide the names and personal information of about 256 fellow POWs, as well as reveal the conditions of the prisoner-of-war camp. His story was featured on Season 6, Episode 15 of Comedy Central’s Drunk History. Character was also shown on the streaming provider Amazon prime, The Night Shift, season four, episode seven.
He is still able to repeat the information to the tune of a nursery rhyme \”Old MacDonald Had a Farm\”. He left the US Navy as a Petty Officer Second Class in 1970. He later worked as an instructor at the Navy’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school at NAS North Island, San Diego.
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