Traffic Island with Linda Roy: Recent Episodes
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We drive by them every day – memorial signs at various traffic islands, overpasses or bridges, dedicated to the memory of a military hero. Join Linda Roy as she tells the stories behind the names on the signs.
There's a lot of important games on the Week 5 slate and Laurie Los and Brendan Kurie dive into each of them, while also looking back at New Bedford's epic comeback against Bridgewater-Raynham and all the other Week 4 results.
Radioman First Class Raymond Demers was aboard the USS Bennington when the ship suffered one of the worst maritime disasters during WWII.
Pvt. Edward J. Almeida was New Bedford's first Vietnam War casualty. He had only been in the Army for 10 months.
Earning the nickname "Angel of the Trenches", Father John B. DeValles was a New Bedford war hero. He would go out into the battlefields during WWI to help retrieve a wounded soldier or keep watch over the ones who lay dying.
Lt. Frank L. Baylies was a highly-respected WWI Flying Ace who hailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts. He flew a number of combat missions and shot down 12 enemy German warplanes. But there would be one mission where he wouldn't return.
Leo Forcier was 28 years old when he joined the Army in 1944. He would only serve one year.
Annibal Aguiar enlisted in the Army Sept. 21, 1943. He left behind his wife and two young daughters, ages 2 and 6-months, to join the WWII fighting efforts in France.