LTC Lambros D. Callimahos

Mar 6, 2018 | Army

Born to Greek parents in Cairo, Egypt, he came to this country at the age of 4. He was a renowned concert flutist who became a cryptologist for the National Security Agency. After studying the flute at the Julliard School of Music in New York City and further study in...

COL Margaret Bailey

Mar 5, 2018 | Army

Colonel Bailey was born in Selma, AL.  She graduated from Dunbar High School, Fraternal Hospital, School of Nursing, Montgomery, AL in 1938 and in 1959 from San Francisco State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Colonel Bailey’s civilian nursing career began at...

SSG Barry A. Sadler

Mar 4, 2018 | Air Force, Army

Staff Sergeant Barry Allen Sadler was born in Carlsbad, NM, on November 1, 1940. His parents divorced when he was very young, and his father died of cancer when Sadler was just seven. His mother managed various restaurants and bars around the Southwest, moving the...

1LT James Alton Gardner

Mar 3, 2018 | Army

James Gardner was born in Dyersburg, Tennessee on 7 February 1943. He was recruited as a football player for West Point by Coach Tony Bullotta along with a number of other promising talents from Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. He played plebe football as an...

CPT Elsie S. Ott

Mar 2, 2018 | Air Force

During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Corps pioneered military medical care through the development of air evacuations of wounded personnel. Contributing to this was 2nd Lt. Elsie S. Ott, a flight nurse on the first intercontinental air evacuation flight that...