The two 19-year-olds from Esmond, South Dakota, died together on June 19, 1944, when their huge flat-bottom ship hit an underwater mine as it tried to approach Utah Beach, 13 days after the D-Day ...

Many decades after the Eastern Ports came into being, a flat bottom ship, has berthed at the Calabar Port. The vessel, MV’ Desert Ranger, weighing about 62,000 metric tonnes, made history ...

William Q. Punnell returns home The two 19-year-olds from Esmond, South Dakota, a township northeast of Mitchell, died together on June 19, 1944, when their huge flat-bottom ship hit an underwater ...