The descendants of U.S. Coast Guardsmen killed in a German U-boat attack during World War I were posthumously awarded Purple Hearts Thursday.
The families of two
members killed during World War I received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their descendants in Florida Thursday. to the families of Angus Nelson MacLean and James Frost. Both men lost their lives during the sinking of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa on Sept. 26, 1918. On that day, the cutter was on convoy duty in the European theater when the German submarine UB-91 fired torpedoes at the vessel off the coast of Wales.
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