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Minsavages celebrate 70th wedding anniversary
5+ hour, 12+ min ago (303+ words) Gerald and Joanne Minsavage of Wilkes-Barre will observe their 70th wedding anniversary on Aug. 4. While that’s a lot of years, Gerald Minsavage said, “We’ve done nothing out of the ordinary, but lived for each other.” Gerald Minsavage, 89, and the former Joanne…...
Editorial: Reflecting on Flag Day about Jim Walsh
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (530+ words) Times Leader Editorial Board Ardent flag advocate and World War II veteran James Walsh of Mayer Street, Wilkes-Barre, plans to hand out 50 flags in his neighborhood on Wednesday, along with red, white and blue ribbons, bows and bunting. It’s Flag…...
Look Back: Five U.S. Servicemen from Luzerne County remain missing in Vietnam
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (654+ words) U.S. Navy Lt. Edward Andrew Dickson U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Richard Evancho U.S. Navy Lt. Bernard Francis Rupinski U.S. Marine Col. Robert Norman Smith U.S. Air Force Col. Wayne Benjamin Wolfkeil An Associated Press bulletin published in the Wilkes-Barre Record newspaper on Feb. 19, 1965, reported a…...
‘With All My Love, Doc’
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1142+ words) Wartime letters reveal father author wanted to know Author Deborah Hynoski Burnetti wrote her book ‘With All My Love, Doc,’ based on letters her father, Sgt. Joseph Hynoski from West Nanticoke, sent to his future wife, Rita Zulauf of Baltimore....
Lt. Col. George E. Hardy, youngest Tuskegee Airman, dies at 100
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (468+ words) By CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America The Tuskegee Airmen Way street sign is briefly displayed in front of a 1943 North American T6 Texan aircraft used to train pilots during WWII, at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base, in Harrison…...
LOOK BACK: Wilkes-Barre native named Chief of Naval Operations in 1939
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (831+ words) Admiral Harold R. Stark is congratulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House in April 1942. Admiral Harold R. Stark Courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command U.S.S. Stark, a guided missile frigate, was named after Wilkes-Barre native U.S. Naval Admiral Harold R. Stark. Courtesy…...
Japanese American soldiers once branded ‘enemy aliens’ promoted posthumously
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (685+ words) By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU — Seven Japanese American soldiers were promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony Monday, eight decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II despite having been branded “enemy aliens....
WWII Navy veteran Ira ‘Ike’ Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (544+ words) By JENNIFER PELTZ and JAIMIE DING Associated Press Ira Schab, right, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor as a sailor on the USS Dobbin, talks with reporters while sitting next to his son, retired Navy Cmdr. Karl Schab, on…...
Wilkes-Barre native serves aboard one of the world’s largest warships
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (468+ words) By Ashley Craig Navy Office of Community Outreach NORFOLK, Va. — Ensign Stan Zaneski, a native of Wilkes-Barre, serves aboard USS George H.W. Bush, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operating out of Norfolk, Virginia. The skills and values needed to succeed in…...
Beyond the Byline: On Dec. 7, remember those lost at Pearl Harbor
8+ mon, 21+ hour ago (879+ words) By Bill OBoyle Beyond the Byline WILKES-BARRE — Several years ago, I attended a service at the Daddow-Isaacs Dallas American Legion Post 672. A bugler played “To the Colors” as the American flag was raised that Thursday morning at the start…...