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Rank. Leading seaman. Service number. D257698W. Timothy Andrew MacColl (born 1984) was a Royal Navy leading seaman who disappeared early on the morning of 27 May 2012 in the Port Rashid area of Dubai . His disappearance was investigated by the police in Dubai and by the Royal Navy. In 2014, the Royal Navy issued a death certificate listing ...
Greta Zimmer Friedman. Greta Friedman ( née Grete Zimmer; June 5, 1924 – September 8, 2016) was an Austrian-born American who was photographed being grabbed and kissed by Navy sailor George Mendonsa (1923–2019 [1]) in the iconic V-J Day in Times Square photograph of 1945 by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. [2] For decades the ...
Hamilton's NJ death certificate indicating burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Camden, NJ. Medal of Honor recipient Richard Hamilton survived the war and died in Camden, New Jersey, on July 6, 1881, due to paralysis complicated by syphilis. He was buried July 10, 1881, in Evergreen Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey. Although a record of his interment has ...
A Navy sailor assigned to a submarine in Newport News, Va., died by suicide earlier this week, the ninth such death in the service in a little over a year, according to the region’s Office of ...
A U.S. Navy sailor who graduated from high school in Cudahy died last week during training. Chief Petty Officer Peter "Pete" Lagosh, 41, died Tuesday, June 4, while training onboard Naval Air ...
The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long, rough voyages.
Like millions of others, his family struggled during the Great Depression, and he joined the Navy in hopes of sending money home. Seaman 2nd Class Galaszewski was 29 years old when he died.
Doris "Dorie" Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a U.S. Navy sailor who was the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal of Honor. As a mess attendant second class [1] [2] in the United States Navy , Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor .