Civil rights leaders and families of World War II veterans celebrated the long-awaited exonerations of 256 Black sailors who were wrongfully convicted after the 1944 Port Chicago explosion, a ...

Homer Anthony, a World War II sailor who is the subject of a book by Dennis Damiani. (BILL UHRICH/READING EAGLE) Then on the pages for the Tang, he saw the photo of Fireman First Class Anthony ...

Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors from deadly World War II ammo ... boats to be sent overseas during World War II. A subsequent Navy investigation found that safety ... @us.navy .mil, or 703-697 ...

A Goodwill site in Oklahoma recently discovered a trove of well-preserved World War II documents. These papers were hidden away in a secret compartment of a box that was donated to the non-profit ...

AUBURN, Ill. (WAND) - A Navy sailor from Auburn who was killed in World War II has finally been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that Navy Electrician’s ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor who received ...

Missing since World War II, the remains of a sailor from a segregated Navy branch return home WUNC | By Jay Price Published April 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM EDT ...

A U.S. Navy sailor’s remains were recovered decades after he was killed on a World War II air strike mission in the Pacific Ocean, officials said Friday. U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman First ...

George Ives, 95, of Halfmoon, has finally received the medals he earned for his performance as a Navy sailor in World War II. Ives was surrounded by his wife, Myrtle, and family members as Navy ...

On Wednesday, 80 years after the explosion at Port Chicago, the Navy secretary, Carlos Del Toro, officially exonerated all 258 Black sailors, none of whom are still alive.

"My father's a veteran from Vietnam and he was also in the Navy and so it's close and personal to him. To find out we have a family member that was a veteran of World War II is kind of interesting ...

Homer Anthony, a 1941 graduate of Reading High School was killed in 1943 while serving in the Navy during World War II. His diary, edited and annotated by Dennis Damiani of Muhlenberg Township, is … ...