BOSTON (CBS) - Navy Veteran, Daniel Galvin read off the names of his fallen shipmates Thursday morning, as people gathered to remember the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the USS Quincy.

An 11 a.m. ceremony at the USS Quincy (CA-39) memorial off Sea Street will mark the 70th anniversary of the heavy cruiser’s 1942 sinking early in the Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific.

HANOVER -- Daniel Galvin Jr., who survived the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in World War II and remembered his lost comrades every year in a flag-raising ceremony at his Hanover home ...

1842 - The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed. In the treaty, the United States and Great Britain agree to cooperate in suppressing the slave trade. 1867 - One officer and 46 Marines and Seamen ...

He was assigned to the USS Quincy (CA-39) as an electrician third class and shipped to the South Pacific to participate in the invasion of Guadalcanal. Now 90, Stires is a Purple Heart recipient ...

He was assigned to the USS Quincy (CA-39) as an electrician third class and shipped to the South Pacific to participate in the invasion of Guadalcanal. Now 90, Stires is a Purple Heart recipient ...