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Fight to award Dorie Miller Medal of Honor goes on. What to know about the WWII sailor
More than 80 years after his heroic actions, supporters are urging Congress to award World War II sailor Dorie Miller the Medal of Honor.
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First production AC-traction diesel donated to Illinois Railway Museum
The first U.S. production AC-traction locomotive, BNSF Railway SD70MAC No. 9400, has been donated to the Illinois Railway ...
Historian uncovers evidence of second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Pennsylvania who suffered from cholera, violence and xenophobia
But in 1832, people believed cholera was linked to intemperance and vice, which were thought to weaken the body. According to the prevailing miasma theory, it caused outbreaks once airborne.
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How a Texas sharecropper’s son became the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross
Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy US Navy Sailor Doris "Dorie" Miller, first black recipient of the Navy ...