The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Effort to Award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II Army Rangers Moves Ahead
From the March 16, 2020, Military.com by Richard Sisk.
It has bipartisan backers in both the Senate and House and is running against the clock to get it passed while some of them are still alive. It is estimated that only about 40 survive.
The Rangers were in special operations.
A big reason for Senator Joni Ernst, (R-Iowa) is that former tech sergeant Lester Cook, one of the original group of Rangers formed in 1942 under the leadership of Captain William O. Darby, is still alive and living in Des Moines, Iowa.
--GreGen
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