Aug. 6 marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Among the more than 70,000 people killed that day were 12 American prisoners of war. One of those prisoners was 1st Lt. Joseph Dubinsky, 26, of Washington, the pilot of a B-24 bomber, Taloa, ...
The sun was a few hours from setting in Pennsylvania and had already been up for a couple of hours in Japan when the Enola Gay moved rapidly in the sky over Hiroshima and dropped a single bomb on the city on Aug. 6, 1945. What happened that day was one of the pivotal events of the 20th ...
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA — Ray Curtis was born on Feb. 11, 1917, about two months before the United States entered World War I and a year before what became known as the Spanish Flu ravaged the nation. Automobiles had not yet become common in the states, and air travel was in its infancy. The ...
A World War II soldier from Connellsville was laid to rest on Saturday after his remains were disinterred from a cemetery in Italy. U.S. Army Pfc. Harry H. Hosfelt Jr., 20, was killed in action on Feb. 9, 1944 when his unit was engaged by German Forces in Italy. Hosfelt’s body was not ...
Tom Sollosi Jr. has told the story many times, and even though it's been 80 years since D-Day, the World War II veteran from New Eagle recalls the Normandy invasion with vivid detail. “My memory is fading, but I can still remember a lot of stuff,” Sollosi said in an interview last week in ...
AVELLA – Veterans who fought and died in combat were remembered across America Monday, and Orrin Guy Miller was one of them. Miller was raised on a farm in Jefferson Township, and he died over Hungary on July 24, 1944, just one month after his 26th birthday. Miller was on a bombing mission ...
