There aren’t many words to describe the sight of a kamikaze plane dropping down onto a ship, Stan Primmer said. “It’s beyond frightening,” the Rockford farmer said of the morning of June 22, 1945, ...
RAHWAY -- On March 31, 1945, the U.S.S. LST-686, a landing ship, pulled into Keise Shima, a handful of small islets a few miles off the coast of Okinawa. William Mele was 19 and had been on the USS ...
FRAMINGHAM – As he peers at a framed photo of the vessel on which he served during the invasion of Iwo Jima, tears well up in the eyes of Stanley Berman and trickle down his cheek. In the distance of ...
On Easter Sunday morning, 1945, Peter Leasca rode aboard a Landing Ship, Tank or LST carrying men and armored vehicles onto the heavily defended beaches of Okinawa just 340 miles from the Japanese ...
In author Stephen C. Stripe's new historic book "Pacific LST 791: A Gallant Ship and Her Hardworking Coast Guard Crew at the Invasion of Okinawa" (published by iUniverse), readers are transported back ...
The 1944 Normandy invasion was the largest amphibious operation in history. Less than a year later, American forces hit the beach at Okinawa — the largest landing in the Pacific. Fred Bridges saw them ...
To Art Crosthwait, 88, of Morgan County, his service in the Pacific Theater in World War II hardly seems real anymore. It has been nearly 70 years since he was part of a force that invaded Peleliu, ...
CINCINNATI, Oh. (WTVM) - A massive World War II ship has become a museum and memorial ship to the men who bravely served their country aboard it. This still fully functional ship just docked in ...
Every member of the Gentleman’s Coffee Club is a veteran, but although military topics come up from time to time, that is hardly all that’s discussed. There are jokes, political comments, talk of ...
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