In the dense jungle terrain in Darlac Province, near the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, American doctor Eleanor Ardel Vietti had found her ... woman POW whose fate remains ...

The French occupiers of Vietnam had built it ... more humane than at the other POW camps. Many of the prisoners transferred from other facilities found the freedom to congregate, permitted at ...

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 ...

spokesman for the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office. To date, the remains of nearly 600 MIAs from the Vietnam War have been identified. No MIAs have been found alive, despite alleged sightings ...

She had become very active in the movement to find a way to have the POWs in Vietnam released. She later was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first deputy assistant secretary of the ...

After more than a half-century, a southern Wisconsin Air Force veteran killed in the Vietnam War finally was reunited with his family. On Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced ...

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 ...

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

Dick Stratton, a Navy pilot and a prisoner of the Vietnam War who endured more than ... She rallied public opinion to focus on prisoners of war, POWs, and even met with Ron and Nancy Reagan.

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.

John McCain, a giant of American politics who died on Saturday at 81, was perhaps most profoundly shaped by his military service and nearly six years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.