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Meet the 700-pound pig who raised $19 million for the Navy in WWII
Navy Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMove over Wilber, there’s a new pig in town. Sure, you got Charlotte to weave a web of lies to save...
Ken Potts, one of last USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102
Military Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHONOLULU — Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which...
Father's firsthand experience focal point of Rockford area Pearl Harbor presentation
Rockford Register Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPOPLAR GROVE — When 19-year-old Clarence "C.J." Miller completed basic training at the Great Lakes...
The remains of two sailors missing since Pearl Harbor attack are finally identified
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe remains of two sailors missing in action since the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor have...
Illinois native who braved flaming waters at Pearl Harbor to save his fellow sailors has died
Journal Star via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA Macomb native who witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack and then spent horrific hours diving into the flaming waters to try to save his fellow sailors has died. Sterling Cale was 102. Cale died ...
The Governor’s Mansion in Springfield is all dressed for the holidays. It has always taken a fair...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Governor’s Mansion in Springfield looks lovely right now, at the holidays. If you happen to be...
Veterans column: Granville's William Hammond survives Pearl Harbor; presumed KIA on Pecos
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWilliam Browning Hammond was born in 1923 to Mercer and Lucille. The family lived in Granville...
The ones we lost: Wilmington-area notables who died in 2023
Star News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA newspaper editor. A trailblazing broadcaster. A young athlete gone before his time. And one of the...
Hometown Heroes: Edgar David Gross
The News Courier, Athens, Ala. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 7—Edgar David Gross was born Oct. 25, 1901, in Athens to George Adams and Susan (Ray) Gross. He married Anne Pearl Marbut and the couple lived in Elkmont. At the age of 22, he enlisted ...
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor is laid to rest, at last
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains...
