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WATERBURY, CT Waterbury Mayor Neil M. O Leary shows the Lt. (Rev) Thomas M. Conway memorial to Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy, prior to a ceremony to honor Lt. (Rev) Thomas M. Conway Friday at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury, Lt. Conway, who died 75 years ago following the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in the final days of WWII, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross by Secretary Braithwaite. Jim Shannon Republican-American
WATERBURY, CT John P. Shea, Chairman of the Waterbury Veterans Memorial committee reads a letter from one of the surviving crew of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during a ceremony to honor Lt. (Rev) Thomas M. Conway on Friday at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury. Lt. Conway, who died 75 years ago following the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in the final days of WWII, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross by Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy during the ceremony. Jim Shannon Repu