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

Mayor Thomas Koch was 12 when he first met Navy Capt. Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War hero and former prisoner of war, one of ...

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

Soldiers who called themselves 'tunnel rats' fought an underground war in Vietnam through an intricate maze of hardened ...

A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, tells DailyMail.com: 'I just thought that was almost like the perfect thing to do as your parting act of leaving the Hanoi ...

Captain Richard Stratton did more than serve his country in the Vietnam War — the prisoner of war was known as The Beak, a heroic member of the Strike Fighter Squadron 192. On Saturday, the Quincy ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing ...

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.