Donald Thomas was a member of 3rd Division Reconnaissance Troop. According to his own words: “About 1:00am on Jan. 30, 1944, our troop led the attempted breakout from the Anzio beachhead. The Germans out-smarted us by letting us pass by where they were dug in....
Wounded 6 Apr 1945 near Oberellem, Germany. After an all day pursuit of German Army personnel, entered Oberellem, freed some civilians from basement of a house and then proceeded to pursue more German soldiers. Spotted a lone soldier across an open field (possibly a...
Colonel Robert Allan Adams (Army/Retired) died January 7, 2019. Robert (Bob) is survived by wife, JoAnn Spencer Adams, three children, Spencer and Barbie Adams, Katie and David Lewis, Matthew and Amber Adams. Grandchildren; Grayce, Sophia, Truman, Lincoln, Harper,...
Corporate executive and military officer Joseph Benjamin Anderson was born on February 12, 1943, in Topeka, Kansas, to Pearl Gatewood and Joseph B. Anderson, Sr. His father was a widower with one son while his mother had two daughters from a previous marriage. An...
In 1917, Polish immigrant Stanley Lane enlisted in the Army on his 16th birthday. When his age was discovered he was offered a discharge, but he refused. His unit was shipped overseas but Lane was not permitted to go because of then-existing regulations restricting...
Born in Kingston, Hunt County, Texas, on June 20, 1925, Audie Murphy was raised in a sharecropper’s dilapidated house. Murphy’s father, Emit, fell short on his parental responsibilities, continuing to father children, 12 in all, despite that fact that he...
