Vic Hodding

Captain Vic Hodding was with U.S. Army Intelligence during the Second Great War. In 1943 he headed a successful operation that led to the capture of Confederate Colonel Travis W. W. Oliphant from behind enemy lines. During the operation, Oliphant put up more resistance than expected and was wounded in the leg and shoulder.

Hodding had Oliphant brought to a hospital in Cincinnati for treatment and interrogation while under drugs. Dr. Leonard O'Doull reluctantly injected Oliphant with sodium pentathol which had the effect of making Oliphant act intoxicated. He rambled under questioning by Hodding but provided sufficient information for Hodding to continue to question him for some time.