Strong love of country drove young WAC to enlist at 16. In 1944, Dorothy-Mae (Hinson) Brandt was four years too young to join her five older brothers serving in America’s armed forces during World War II. Like the estimated 100,000 underage veterans who served in...
Private Tyler was wounded while fighting in St. Mihiel, France. He was in Company L, 313th Infantry Regiment. We honor you, Arthur Tyler. (#Repost @National Purple Heart Hall of Honor)
One of the most celebrated heroines in American history, Harriet Tubman is best known for ushering slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. But not everyone knows that Tubman, who escaped slavery in 1849, set up a vast espionage ring for the...
My name is John Richard White from Austin, Texas. I am 67 years old and Vietnam was almost 45 years ago, but it was just like yesterday too. I was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and in Vietnam stationed in Da Nang and Hue from 1967 to 1968. I write this account not to...
“The things that you’ll have to take care of in the Army are things that you will never see any place else.” (Video Interview, 6:52) War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Unit: 97th Evacuation Hospital, 1st Army At 41, Hubert Amstutz was older than...
War or Conflict: WWII, 1939-1945 Dates of Service: 1941-1945 Entrance into Service: Enlisted Branch of Service: Army Unit of Service: 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 5th Infantry Division and 26th Infantry Division Location of Service: Texas; Normandy, France;...
