During World Wars I and II, the North and Baltic Seas were strategic theaters of naval conflict for Europe. Allied and Axis forces mined the waters, launched torpedoes, and dropped explosives. After ...
1943 Osage High School graduate Les Decker enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944. He wanted to go sooner, but he was only 16 years old when he graduated, and had to wait another year. "I started out in ...