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Jill Biden Subtly Highlights Diplomacy in Blue Velvet Schiaparelli Gown at U.S.-France State Dinner...
WWD· 20 hours agoThe first lady stepped out in a full length Schiaparelli velvet gown, complete with a billowing...
'A bright light': Waukee community remembers US Navy corpsman Mollie Quick, killed in car crash
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoMollie Quick, a Waukee Northwest graduate and a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy, died May 12 on...
A 102-year-old World War II veteran dies en route to D-Day commemorations in Europe and is mourned
WFMJ Youngstown· 3 days agoAfter enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1942, Persichitti was assigned as a radioman to the USS Eldorado...
102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration
Stars and Stripes· 6 days agoRobert Persichitti died in a hospital in Germany during his travels toward Normandy where veterans...
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Coeur d'Alene Press· 11 hours agoHenry and Jeanne were married on June 9, 1974, in Oshkosh, Wis., shortly after his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. They then...
Ken Pennington of Lakeland, a Navy veteran of World War II and Korea, dies at 105
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 5 days agoGary Clark, chairman of the Polk County Veterans Council, reported Pennington’s death. Pennington...
Kerr: Francis Gary Powers, a Cold War legend and hero to remember
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoD. Allan Kerr is an ex-dockworker, former newspaperman and U.S. Navy veteran living in Kittery,...
102-year-old WWII Navy vet dies en route to D-Day commemorations
Military Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRobert Persichitti enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and later sailed on the USS Eldorado to the Pacific,...
Remembering with sadness, the British D-Day veterans recall the war they saw and knew
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoLes Underwood, 98, a Royal Navy gunner on a merchant ship that was delivering ammunition to the...
Batavia man marks 100 years, recalls serving during World War II on historic battleship
Daily Herald· 6 days agoRobert Larson was an 18-year-old high school graduate with a horn when he joined the U.S. Navy on...
