Rastus “Smokey” Holcomb served on the USS Arkansas and participated in 13 convoys across the North Atlantic, several invasions in the European theater but the biggest military action of all time was the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The retired Navy veteran who joined the service in 1934 at the height of the depression also got married that year. But it was his service on the Arkansas on D-Day that will never leave his memory.
Category: Veterans
There are nearly 83,000 service member who died in wars overseas who are still listed as missing.
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Some Airmen brought their children to participate in the detail, giving them the chance to understand the importance of service. Chief Master Sgt. Carmelo Vega Martinez brought his daughter Frances.
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Iraq was won and its elected government was functioning when President Obama decided to pull out all of our troops. Iraq is now a disaster and becoming more dangerous all the time.
Now the biggest threat yet to emerge since 9/11 has been the cunning plan of ISIS to use civilians as a cover for spreading terrorists throughout the western world and use the unwitting humanitarian sympathies of the Western culture in the process to dupe the West once again. Be assured that as the masses of legitimate refugees flee the madness of the barbarian ISIS leaders, there will be many terrorists embedded in those advancing columns of people yearning to be free of Islamic Radical Killers.
Sailors tell their stories of survival after their ship was torpedoed and sank in the Pacific in 1945.