In 1942, Stratton left Purdue to join the burgeoning war effort as the United States entered World War II. She was commissioned as a senior lieutenant in the U.S. Navy but later was transferred to the ...

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — Dick Stratton, a Navy pilot and a prisoner of the Vietnam War who endured more than 2,000 days of captivity and torture in North Vietnam, has died at the age of 93.