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Updates of efforts to bring relief and reconstruction to Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands

Posted on September 28, 2017 by

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Updates of efforts to bring relief and reconstruction to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous, a 210-foot medium-endurance cutter homeported in St. Petersburg, Florida, arrives to deliver aid near the port…

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Shipmates of the USS Arizona rejoin the entombed at the end of their lives

Posted on July 21, 2016 by

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Tagged with: Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona

D-Day Veteran Smokey Holcomb Gives First Person Account of Landings on Omaha Beach

Posted on May 22, 2016 by

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The following is an interview I conducted with Smokey Holcomb, a Navy veteran who witnessed the D-Day invasion. By Ken Rossignol THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY LEXINGTON PARK — Rastus “Smokey” Holcomb served on the USS Arkansas and participated in 13…

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