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Crewman gets Purple Heart 80 years after U-boat sank a ship off Maine coast

Eighty years after a torpedo ripped through the hull of the USS Eagle PE-56, just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth’s Portland Headlight, the United States Navy on Wednesday bestowed a posthumous Purple Heart to the great-nephew of Eagle crewman Norris W. Jones. On April 23, 1945, just one day after his 20th […]