Family of western Pennsylvania World War II soldier reunited with his helmet 80 years later
The helmet will remain on permanent display at Pittsburgh's Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum. And though McCorkle passed away in 1985, he could hardly have imaged that 80 ...
Helmet pulled from mud of Rhine River reunited with World War II soldier's family 80 years later
It is a reunion 80 years in the making. During World War II, Earl L. McCorkle from Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, was fighting the Germans while trying to cross the Rhine River. But it was during the Battle ...