Oct 8, 2017 | Army
Ruth Buckley enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps after graduating from the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing in 1940. Buckley was first stationed in North Africa, working in the pre-operation tent. She was exposed to the enormity of the war through her...
Oct 4, 2017 | Army
Gene Takahashi’s experiences in Korea began shortly after the end of the Second World War. He had enlisted in the Army late in that war, after spending most of it with his family in an Arizona internment camp for Japanese Americans. After the Japanese surrendered,...
Oct 3, 2017 | Army
Victor Johnson served in the US Army during the Vietnam war. He was a Armor Reconnaissance Specialist with the 3rd Squadron, 4th US Cavalry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lightening Division). Victor was killed in action in Hau Nghia on March 7, 1969. We...
Oct 1, 2017 | Army
Charles Young was born March 12, 1864, in Mayslick, Kentucky, the son of former slaves. His father enlisted as a private in the Fifth Regiment of the Colored Artillery (Heavy) Volunteers. When Young’s parents moved across the river to Ripley, Ohio, he attended...
Sep 30, 2017 | Army
With his privileged upbringing – he was born to a wealthy French family, educated by private tutors, and grew up as a teenager around 1930s Hollywood– Rafael Hirtz might have found a way to coast through World War II. Instead, he volunteered for the...
Sep 28, 2017 | Army
Joseph Beimfohr enlisted in the Army two days after his 17th birthday, with the approval of his grandmother, who had raised him. He did two tours of duty in Korea in a forward force that was on alert at all times. In August 2004, he arrived at Ft. Riley, Kansas, to...
