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

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 ... as saying about his time in captivity as a POW. “We were blessed; we were Americans.” ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Lt. Col. Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission when his plane disappeared in a ...

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.

Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing over the skies of Vietnam nearly 60 years ago ...