John McCain Monument

John McCain Monument is located on the banks of Ho Truc Bach Lake in the heart of Hanoi. A stone sculpture of a person with uplifted arms and a bowed head. To the right of the individual are the letters USA and a star. To the left of the person is text written in Vietnamese:

“At Truc Bach Lake the army and the people of Hanoi captured pilot John Sidney McCain, a U.S. Navy air force major who flew the A4, shot down at the Yen Phu power plant, was one of 10 planes shot down the same day.” On 26 October 1967 near Truc Bach Lake in the capital, Hanoi, the citizens and military caught Pilot John Sidney McCain. The US Navy Air Force Aviator was flying aircraft A4, which crashed near Yen Phu power station. This was one of ten aircraft shot down that same day.”