Category: Veterans

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USS FORD with formidable fleet

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The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford sails in formation with the guided missile destroyers USS Winston Churchill, USS Mitscher, USS Mahan, USS Bainbridge, and USS Forrest …

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USS EDSALL – Named for a hero, fought like a Hero and was lost only to overwhelming firepower of full force of Japanese Navy ships and planes from three aircraft carriers; remains of six surviving crew members were found in a mass grave after Japs beheaded them.

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Edsall I (DD-219) 1920-1942 Named for Norman Eckley Edsall, born on 3 June 1873 in Columbus, Ky., who enlisted in the Navy as a seaman …

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A VETERAN’S DAY TRIBUTE: TO A NAVAL OFFICER, A TYPHOON SURVIVOR, AND THE GRANDFATHER I NEVER MET

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D-Day Veteran Gives First-Person Account of Landings on Omaha Beach Hear from Veterans in their own words on Veterans Day; visit Arlington Cemetery ceremonies. A …

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THE MAN WHO DONATED THE LAND FOR LIBRARY, RESCUE SQUAD, AND FIREHOUSE: Gabe Gabrelcik used his savings to open his first business in Lexington Park at the age of 24 after getting out of the Navy

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LEXINGTON PARK, MD.  Gabe is relentless when it comes to details and maintains all of his records neat and clean. As strong as a mule, …

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ANNAPOLIS REPORT: Bailey bills on use of live ammo requirement for firearms training, geese bag limits, sex offender registration expansion making first steps in February hearings

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ANNAPOLIS REPORT: Bailey bills on use of live ammo requirement for firearms training, geese bag limits, sex offender registration expansion making first steps in February …