Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

(U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command ... Koelsch served as a torpedo bomber pilot in the last months of World War II and was promoted to lieutenant junior grade on Aug. 1, 1946.

Carol Cherry never knew her father was a central character in one of the darkest chapters of American military history until ... disaster in World War II, according to the Navy.