A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...
The first session of the newly provincial legislature opened with a speech that finds B.C. at the "most consequential moment" ...
WWII veteran Tony Battaglia, who served as a medic in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and later moved to Honesdale, died Friday ...
We didn't have the cannons to get them out of there, because the ship (carrying their artillery ... Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal and the Purple Heart. In 1951, he and his ...
Mr. Burton Ellis Witherwax was born Aug. 21, 1927, in Woodlawn, La. He was the firstborn son of James and Gertrude Witherwax.
PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship ... of World War II’s strategy ...
Because the ship was a hospital and showed the red ... the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. “She did it in a different way than most people because of the ...