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The ship has been scrapped, but at least six crew members are well enough to travel to Portland this week for a reunion. They are being hosted by the family of former radioman Elmer Etzel of Stayton.
Seventy years ago, two American war vessels in the Pacific intercepted a hospital ship. It was supposed to be full of sick patients, but American sailors and Marines found something else. At sea ...
Shipwreck hunters have captured the first underwater footage of an Australian World War II hospital ship that sank in 1943 and left 268 people dead. A search team led by U.S. shipwreck hunter ...
The ship previously made a stop in Dubuque in August 2018. Travel Dubuque said it attracted 16,620 visitors, with 75 percent of them coming from more than 50 miles outside of Dubuque to see it.
“Life on a World War II Hospital Ship” will give a fascinating and intimate look into Vera Rauh’s incredible adventures in the Pacific. Originally from Frankenmuth, Vera was drawn to nursing ...
A World War II Army Hospital ship, the Krawarree, which was used as a cruise boat on the Gold Coast in the 1980s will be restored. The AH Krawarree (known as AH 1733) served in Papua New Guinea to ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. – Amelia Chmura served as a nurse on a U.S. Army hospital ship during World War II and remembers being tasked with bringing home former prisoners of war from Germany. Chmura, 96 ...
The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that one of its hospital ships may have collided with the USS Arizona World War II memorial in Pearl Harbor. The incident occurred early May 27 as the USNS Mercy was ...
SYDNEY — Shipwreck hunters have captured the first underwater footage of an Australian World War II hospital ship that sank in 1943 and left 268 people dead.
The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that one of its hospital ships may have collided with the USS Arizona World War II memorial in Pearl Harbor. The incident occurred early May 27 as the USNS Mercy was ...