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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | October 10, 2009
James Daniel Nolan, a retired lawyer and former president of Blue Shield of Maryland who landed at Normandy with the 1st Infantry Division on D-Day, died Wednesday of cancer at Mercy Ridge in Timonium. He was 86. Mr. Nolan, the son of Irish immigrant parents, was born in Baltimore and raised on McKean Avenue and later in Howard Park. "His father was a streetcar motorman for United Railways and Electric Company, and his mother was a housekeeper," said a son, Stephen J. Nolan, a Towson lawyer and a Timonium resident.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | July 7, 2009
Andrew L. "Shad" Crockett, a retired postmaster and a highly decorated World War II infantryman who landed at Normandy on D-Day with the 29th Division, died Wednesday of heart failure at the Edward W. McGready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. He was 85. Mr. Crockett was born on Tangier Island, the son of a waterman and a homemaker. After graduating from Crisfield High School, he moved to Baltimore and went to work in the Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Fairfield yard building Liberty ships. In 1943, he enlisted in the Army and was sent to England aboard the RMS Queen Mary, where he joined the 115th Regiment of the Army's 29th Division.
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By Kayla Cross and Katherine McNaboe | June 7, 2009
Even in 1671, pioneers were astounded by the blue mountains and vast valley in southwestern Virginia. Now the Roanoke Valley, less than a five-hour drive from Baltimore, is a place for visitors to explore the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains and discover both the historical and modern features of Roanoke. Here are five things to see and do: 1 Tour the Taubman. This museum is a work of art - inside and out - and displays early American art, exquisite handbags and contemporary photography.
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April 21, 2009
ELISHA RAY NANCE, 94 Last surviving D-Day 'Bedford Boy' When World War II broke out, the "Bedford Boys" left home to serve. Many of them didn't come home - so many that the community had among the greatest losses per capita on D-Day. Now the last survivor has died. Elisha Ray Nance died Sunday in Bedford, Va., a spokesman for Tharp Funeral Home and Crematory said Monday. Mr. Nance was among 38 National Guardsmen from the close-knit community of Bedford who were in Company A of the 116th Infantry, a spokeswoman at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation said.
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By Jacques Kelly | June 1, 2008
He described his experience at the Allied invasion of Europe as "90 percent boredom and 10 percent terror." Dr. Edmund G. Beacham, who as a young Army physician crossed the English Channel to land in France on June 7, 1944, died of heart disease Tuesday at Stella Maris hospice. The Towson resident was 93. "Almost whole neighborhoods of men were killed. I don't think anyone envisioned those kinds of casualties. We had clearing stations set up for maybe 900 men over a three-day period. And we were getting 2,100 casualties a day," he told a Sun reporter in 1989.
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By Doug Donovan | September 23, 2007
Thomas F. Cadwalader Jr., an insurance agent and World War II veteran wounded in the D-Day invasion of France, died Monday of prostate cancer at Joseph Richey House in Baltimore. The former Tuxedo Park resident was 94. Mr. Cadwalader was born in 1912 at a West Mount Royal Avenue home to parents who traced their lineage to a Declaration of Independence signer and a Revolutionary War general. "He was a very modest man, and a man of the utmost integrity. A very loyal friend," said his wife of 61 years, the former Phyllis Jane "Jonnie" Clegg Norrie.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | June 9, 2007
I knew John Leo Virgil Murphy Jr., who was the father of a friend of mine, back in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a former safety engineer for U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co., and when I knew him, he was working as a city housing inspector. Murphy was one of Baltimore's great characters. He was an inveterate lunchtime walker and could be seen wearing his trademark crushed fedora or summer straw hat while slowly puffing on the extra-long cigarettes that were a fixture of his daily downtown perambulations.
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July 8, 2005
On July 6, 2005, LEONARD F. VIERS, 2nd Day D-Day Veteran, served with the 29th Division of the US Army and retired from Harry T. Campbell after 38 years of service, beloved husband of Luwanda Dixon Viers, loving father of Eugene and Wanda Len Viers. Also survived by four sisters, and three brothers.The family will receive friends in the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC., 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road) Timonium-Cockeysville on Friday, 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral services will be celebrated in the Particular Primitive Baptist Church at Black Rock, Falls and Butler Roads on Saturday, July 9, at 11 A.M. Interment the adjoining cemetery.
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July 8, 2005
On July 6, 2005, LEONARD F. VIERS, 2nd Day D-Day Veteran, served with the 29th Division of the US Army and retired from Harry T. Campbell after 38 years of service, beloved husband of Luwanda Dixon Viers, loving father of Eugene and Wanda Len Viers. Also survived by four sisters, and three brothers. The family will receive friends in the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC., 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road) Timonium-Cockeysville on Friday, 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral services will be celebrated in the Particular Primitive Baptist Church at Black Rock, Falls and Butler Roads on Saturday, July 9, at 11 A.M. Interment the adjoining cemetery.
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By Jonathan Pitts | June 5, 2005
In 1942, Sun publisher Paul Patterson recruited a young Yale grad, Holbrook Bradley, to the staff of the paper. After a year covering cops and the waterfront, the 27-year-old was tapped to cover the 29th Infantry Division - the heralded Blue and Gray, made up mostly of Maryland and Virginia soldiers - as the division trained in the United States and England for the invasion of France. Sixty-one years ago tomorrow - on D-Day - Bradley watched the bloody charge of Omaha Beach from an offshore transport.