Newfoundland Mayor Makes ‘Pilgrimage of Honour’ to U.S. Military Memorial Service

View of the USS Truxtun wreck site at Chamber Cove, with the U.S.S. Pollux wreck site at Lawn Point Head in the distance. The combination of extremely rough weather, strict radio silence, an incorrectly plotted course, and rigid adherence to a base course set by naval authorities led to the disaster in February 1942. Dale Jarvis/Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador

It will be Thanksgiving Day in Canada, but at a U.S. military memorial service in New York State on October 8, the people of two Canadian towns will not only be giving thanks but will receive thanks.

The ceremony will mark the 65th anniversary of a great WWII American naval tragedy that occurred off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Two American warships were destroyed, and 203 sailors perished.