Ninety-year-old Rafael Torres doesn’t have the mind he had back when he was growing up in El Paso, Texas, nor when he began penning his memories of World War II, but he still seems to remember quite clearly the torture of the head injury that eventually brought him...
Ninety-year-old Rafael Torres doesn’t have the mind he had back when he was growing up in El Paso, Texas, nor when he began penning his memories of World War II, but he still seems to remember quite clearly the torture of the head injury that eventually brought him...
Homer Victor Foust Army Americal Division, 182nd Infantry, Company A Homer was drafted on June of 1943. He headed from Coalville, Utah, to basic training at Camp Roberts, California. In July, he boarded the USS Monticello from San Deigo, CA. After 44...
Hulon Brocke Whittington was born on July 9, 1921 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He was residing elsewhere in the state when he enlisted in the United States Army on August 21, 1940. I have reason to believe he was a member of the Louisiana National Guard federalized along...
World War II Army nurses, like Ellan and Dorothy Levitsky, joined a lineage started in World War I. In 1944, the Levitsky sisters were licensed nurses working in Philadelphia hospitals when one of them got a wild idea. Ellan was going to join the Army Nurse Corps. She...