Frenchy Spradling was just 24 when he died at sea during World War II. His story, preserved through family letters and memories, is one of several honored each Memorial Day in Chaffee, Missouri. He ...
WASHINGTON (American Forces Press Service, Jan. 2, 2007) - Thirty years before fighting political fires in the wake of Watergate, President Gerald R. Ford battled blazes in World War II. U.S. Naval ...
Yoohyun Jung Nov 1, 2015 Nov 1, 2015 Updated Nov 1, 2017 Charles Wohlleb woke up one morning in December 1944, and for some reason, he felt like he should put his life jacket on. He was working in the ...
The forgotten shelter that survived Tacloban’s 1944 superstorm. Not far from today’s ruined shoreline of Tacloban once stood a US naval base that faced another monster storm— long before Supertyphoon ...