He died July 16th 2003 at his home in Bluffdale Utah. At the time of his death He had been Married to Brigita Nordgran Decker for 63 years. She died in August of 2009. Dad kept his five kids childhoods alive with stories from his time spent on the Iowa, from being hit by torpedoes...
Laffey immediately prepared for the invasion of France. On 3 June, she headed for the Normandy beaches escorting tugs, landing craft, and two Dutch gunboats. The group arrived in the assault area, off Utah beach, Baie de la Seine, France, at dawn on D-Day, 6 June 1944. On 6–7 Jun...
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Residing today just outside of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, this Iowa-class battleship was the site of the 1945 surrender of the Japanese army, officially ending World War II. The Missouri secured its place in history as the site of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces on Sept....
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