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Local sailor killed in WWII sinking of USS Maddox
Jack Riden Peters After American and British troops vanquished the Third Reich’s Afrika Korps in Tunisia, North Africa during spring 1943, the objective of the Allied offensive was to cross the Mediterranean and liberate Italy from the Nazis. The first …