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Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.
Dad came back stateside on a hospital ship, which he referred as the ship of horrors, with hundreds of wounded men. The ...
WWII Troop Train event on May 24 held at Colebrookdale Railroad in Boyertown was organized by Colebrookdale Railroad, Gen.
Barton Cross Jr. and his brothers from Oceanport both served honorably in the Navy during World War II. His death would haunt ...
War is already horrific enough as it is. There doesn’t need to be a scary twist to make a story about military-based conflict ...
Pvt. Ben Leslie’s life was snuffed out aboard a Japanese “hell ship” in January 1945. Moored at the port of Takao in present-day Taiwan, the ship Enoura Maru held the New Mexico soldier and other ...
US infantry captain Matt Urban was desperate to get out of the hospital. He knew his unit was in trouble back in Normandy, but until he had completely recovered from the wounds he’d picked up there ...
SPRINGFIELD - Ahead of Memorial Day, Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced the return of a Purple Heart medal to the ...
Jimmy Twedt of Roland was just 17 when he signed up to fight in WWII. He is one of the fallen who will be remembered on ...
LA Fleet Week will begin on Friday, May 23, and run through Memorial Day. Last year’s Fleet Week drew an estimated 100,000 ...
Sgt. Reece Martin wanted to know more about his uncle, Lawrence Martin, who landed in France on D-Day and died in action 10 days later. So he spent years finding out. Last week, on the 84th ...