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 ...
Nearly 50 years have passed since the fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War ... A member of the U.S. Military Police watches a TV report of him rescuing a diplomat from the American ...
Fitzgerald researched Stratton's life for the city when a street was named in honor of him. He said that Stratton was born and raised in North Quincy, where he grew up on Bowdoin Street, attended ...
In a Saigon street, South Vietnam’s police chief raised a gun to the head of a handcuffed ... The Tet Offensive proved a military failure for the Communists, but it fueled the American public’s ...