(Provo, UT) — One of only two remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Arizona on December 7th, 1941 is gone. The National Park Service says Howard “Ken” Potts died Friday in Provo, Utah at the age of 102. According to “Stars and Stripes,” his death leaves 101-year-old Lou […]
(St. George, UT) — A St. George veteran who trained as a tank destroyer during World War Two celebrated his 100th birthday this week. Bud Duane Dunn was born in the tiny town of Joseph, south of Richfield, and was in the University of Utah’s first graduating class of pharmacy. […]
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — A U.S. Marine killed on a Pacific island during World War II has been reburied in Utah. Decades after Pfc. Robert James Hatch of Woods Cross was killed in 1943, searchers found his remains and others in a previously unrecorded burial trench on Betio in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A U.S. defense agency has identified and recovered the body of a Utah Marine about 76 years after he was killed in battle during World War II. The U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Wednesday that 21-year-old Pfc. Robert Hatch of Woods Cross […]
