By Hometown

On April 28, 1943, the United States Navy commissioned the USS Griswold, an Evarts-class destroyer escort ship. Deployed to the Pacific theater that summer, the ship was named for a...

David Glen Lovitt was born on December 13, 1947, in Clarinda, Iowa. His parents were farming north of Bedford, Iowa, where David grew up with his younger sister, Patti. David...

US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II Corporal Ole Wibholm was born in Demark along with his sister Esther. He had another sister named Ingebord. Their parents, Ole and Kathrin, came...