MCPO Jack Shimizu

Aug 11, 2017 | Navy

November 1969, after riverine warfare training in Vallejo, California; I detached and reported to rivers quadrant 13 in Vietnam in December 1969. I was reassigned to river division 131, located in the Mekong delta. The Home base was called Sea float/solid anchor, our...

PO3 Clarence W Dabney

Aug 10, 2017 | Coast Guard

Ship’s Cook First Class Dabney (right) was wounded when Japanese aircraft bombed the LST on which he was stationed in the Southwest Pacific. Two of his shipmates were killed when [Japanese] bombers dropped their ‘eggs.’ We honor you, Clarence Dabney. (#Repost...

PFC Mario Cian DaRosso

Aug 9, 2017 | Army

My father shipped out on the USS Mariposa on July 14, 1943, and arrived in Casablanca, N. Africa on July 21, 1943 as part of a replacement unit with the 34th Infantry Division. By the time he arrived, along with 2,000 other soldiers on his ship, the British and...

Lt Col Fred Durant Bartleson Jr.

Aug 8, 2017 | Air Force

Fred served in the Air Force in Headquarters, 315th Air Division. In addition to being awarded the Purple Heart, Captain Bartleson was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal (First Oak Leaf Cluster) by distinguishing himself under heavy mortar and recoilless rifle...

Cpl Harold John Kahler

Aug 7, 2017 | Marines

Harold was a member of Company A, 7th Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division during the Korean War.  Harold was injured on October 26, 1952. He was awarded with the Purple Heart. Mr. Kahler’s daughter Julie McCann writes, “My dad left the bunker and went...