'He was my hero': Recalling the life and times of Joe George, a grizzled war veteran by the age of 20
Christmas Eve, 1944, the English Channel. More than 2,000 American and British servicemen were shoulder-to-shoulder on the overloaded Leopoldville, a 500-foot, 11-ton, Belgian passenger liner reconfigured as a troop ship. When the torpedo from the German U-boat hit, the top-heavy ship ...