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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D-Day Veteran Smokey Holcomb Gives First Person Account of Landings on Omaha Beach
The following is an interview I conducted with Smokey Holcomb, a Navy veteran who witnessed the D-Day invasion. By Ken RossignolTHE CHESAPEAKE TODAYLEXINGTON PARK — Rastus “Smokey” Holcomb served on the USS Arkansas and participated in 13 convoys across…
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