Object Details
- Rollins, David
- Description
- Physical Description
- White metal cup with "Trieu Viet" in red and blue letters on the side. Wire wrapped around cup handle.
- Specific History
- This cup, given to the North Vietnamese Army by the North Koreans as a "friendship" cup, was given to Commander David "Jack" Rollins, U.S. Navy, a prisoner of war from May 14, 1967, to March 4, 1973. The wire wrapped around the cup's handle was used to make needles. The North Vietnamese Army never figured out where the needles they confiscated from Rollins came from.
- General History
- A prisoner of war (POW) is someone who is captured and imprisoned by an enemy power during a time of conflict or war. In 1949 the Geneva Convention in 1949 defined who was to be considered a POW and determined how they were to be treated. The policies established by the Geneva Convention were based on the international humanitarian law, or laws of war.
- ID Number
- 2004.0083.19
- accession number
- 2004.0083
- catalog number
- 2004.0083.19
- Object Name
- cup
- Physical Description
- tin (overall material)
- copper (overall material)
- enamel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 8.89 cm x 12.065 cm x 9.525 cm
- Associated Place
- Vietnam
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- ThinkFinity
- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- POWs
- related event
- Vietnam War
- Postwar United States
- Record ID
- nmah_1273033
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-6c0c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
