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RDML Burton Hale Shepherd

Rear Admiral Burton H. Shepherd, who during his military career, as a commander, was strike leader of Attack Carrier Air Wing 16. Oct. 26, 1967, 18 aircrafts set out on a mission to destroy a heavily defended thermal power plant in Hanoi. For this and other acts of...

1LT Diana J. Ramsey

Diana J. Ramsey was born on June 21, 1945 in Kingston, Jamaica prior to the island’s independence from the United Kingdom. In 1955, at the age of 10, her family immigrated to the United States so that the kids could receive a good education. They relocated to...

PVT Benjamin Alvarado

A combat newbie, Private Benjamin Alvarado was part of the second wave of troops to arrive on D-Day, landing on the Easy Red section of Omaha Beach. In his memoir, he described the adrenaline-filled first moments of the invasion. Continuing into the French countryside...

Jose “Joe” Manalisay

Jose J. Manalisay was born in Merizon, Guam in 1941. Joe joined to US Army as a young man and served 22 adventurous years, of which included serving in the Vietnam War. During on of his military tours, he met his wife, June at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. In July of...

SPARS Alice “Jo” Lawson

As World War II was coming to a close, Lawson enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard SPARS, a women’s reservist unit. Lawson said, “I thought that was an adventure and it was.” She would spend two years with the Coast Guard, working at a Navy Air Station...