SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The pallets stacked with plastic-wrapped bricks of cocaine, unloaded by the crew of the cutter USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752)… ...

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 ...