Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...

Stirm’s homecoming was not as sweet as “Burst of Joy” suggests. T he homecoming of Vietnam Prisoner of War Lt. Col. Robert L.

North Dakota state lawmakers took another step in declaring a holiday that will honor some people who never made it home from ...

Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War hero and former prisoner ... the Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Prisoners of War from 1989 to 1995. "He never stopped serving others, and ...

A retired U.S. Navy captain born and raised in Quincy, who also was one of the longest-serving POWs during the Vietnam War, will be buried in his hometown with full military honors, including four ...

Captain Richard Stratton did more than serve his country in the Vietnam War — the prisoner of war ... as saying about his time in captivity as a POW. “We were blessed; we were Americans.” ...

Between Feb. 12 and April 4, 1973, U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifters flew 54 missions into Hanoi, North Vietnam, to pick up 591 American prisoners of war captured by the North Vietnamese and Viet ...

Stratton, who died Jan. 18 at the age of 93, was a Quincy native and one of the longest-serving POWs of the Vietnam war.

After the war, hundreds of German prisoners were blown to bits when the ... Hence, early in the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. didn’t consider captured members of the Viet Cong, the guerrilla ...

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War.