An 18-year-old Navy seaman who was killed aboard a U.S. destroyer during World War II has been accounted for more than 80 years after his death, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Navy Reserve Seaman 2nd Class Jerome M. Mullaney, 18, was assigned to the destroyer USS Glennon in the summer of 1944, the Defense POW/MIA…
A British war veteran who survived the D-Day landings, as well as being shot three times in the line of duty, has died aged 101. Cecil Newton, from the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, served in 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards during World War 2 and was in the thick of it as the allied forces…
A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 29th Infantry Division as part of the second…