BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STRONG

Officer Rank: Patrol Officer
Memorial Panel: 31-W: 5
Department: Anchorage, Alaska, P.D.
End of Watch: January 4, 1968
Cause: SHOT
Age: 29
Years of Service: 1
Description: The Anchorage Police Department had been experiencing several armed robberies around the Christmas Holiday season. Officer Strong, volunteered his off days for a stake-out assignment at the Government Hill Liquor store. Two masked men enter the liquor store at gun point, and forced the clerk into the back room. Officer Strong was shot and killed as he attempted to stop the robbery in progress.
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