Quincy prepares for final homecoming of 'amazing' Vietnam POW – held for more than 6 years
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 ...
Quincy native, long-serving Vietnam War POW, to be buried this week
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 ...
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How Extreme Weather Scrambled a Lunar New Year Tradition in Vietnam
This year a typhoon and extreme heat dented the harvest, scrambling prices for kumquats and other ornamental plants associated with the holiday, known as Tet in Vietnam. Some people bought smaller ...
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New exhibit features flags from Japanese POW camp that held New Mexico Bataan survivors
The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...
Quincy's POW hero thanks hometown in 2019 for values that helped him survive
Richard Stratton tells Quincy how his hometown community family sustained him during more than 6 years as a POW in Vietnam.
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The Army's Secret Program to Interrogate German POWs During World War II
While the Army's Military Intelligence Service spearheaded the program, officials with the Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence interviewed the POWs, too. The prisoners were never physically harmed ...
Daily Mail2d
Family stunned to learn that the father they thought was 'just a cook' had secret wartime life in elite paratrooper unit tasked with rescuing British POWs, as hidden medals go ...
In early 1945 as the Allies closed in on Germany, concerns arose from the safety of prisoners of war (POW) in German hands. To address this the unit developed plans for teams to parachute into or ...
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Video Showing Execution of 6 Ukrainian POWs Sparks Outrage, Leads to Identification of Alleged Russian Perpetrator
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced that a pre-trial investigation has been launched into the shooting of Ukrainian POWs in the Donetsk region. “Investigative actions are ongoing to ...
THE WEEK4d
The fate of prisoners of war
Hence, early in the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. didn’t consider captured members of the Viet Cong, the guerrilla movement allied with the North Vietnamese army, to be true POWs. As for members of ...
NHK6d
The Sound of Vietnam
The Sound of Vietnam While the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra faces a threat to its survival, a Japanese conductor is chosen to save it! The story's protagonist is a young Japanese conductor, Sakura Kazuo ...
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India Uttarakhand becomes first state to implement the Uniform Civil Code
Uttarakhand became the first Indian state to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) on Monday. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the UCC alongside an official online portal, marking a ...