WILLIAM LIEBENOW, 97
World War II Navy officer who guided his warship into Japanese territory to rescue future President John F. Kennedy and his crew after their PT boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific and they swam to a small island.
Died February 24, 2017.
LESTER TENNEY, 96
Chicago native and Army tank commander who survived one of World War II's signature horrors, the Bataan Death March. he wrote a memoir titles "My Hitch in Hell."
He spent his later years pushing Japanese authorities to apologize for their country's atrocities.
Died February 24, 2017, in California.
--GreGen
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.
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