Capt Wayne L. Fischer

Dec 20, 2017 | Marines

A Marine aviator and veteran of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Wayne Fischer completed nearly 700 combat missions during the Vietnam War, piloting helicopters for insertions, extractions, and MEDEVAC operations. Originally from a small farming town near the borders of Iowa...

Muriel Kupersmith

Dec 13, 2017 | Marines

Muriel Kupersmith was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her first memories are of sitting on her father’s lap while he played songs on his mandolin. As a teenager, she had the job of air raid warden turning street lights off at dawn if a siren went off. This was done with a...

PFC Henry Harrison Ford Jr.

Dec 11, 2017 | Marines

“I remember a young kid with a big smile and a fun loving nature. I served too. Thanks Henry.” – James Logan. US Marine Private First Class Henry Harrison Ford Jr was a casualty of the Vietnam War. As a member of the Marine Corps Selective Service...

Bea Arthur

Dec 4, 2017 | Marines

Best known for her roles on the popular television shows “Maude” and “The Golden Girls,” the late Bea Arthur was also once a truck driver in the Marine Corps. She was one of the first members of the Women’s Reserve and aside from driving...

MSgt William H. Cox

Nov 18, 2017 | Marines

On New Year’s Eve 1968, just before the dawn of 1969, Master Sgt. William H. Cox and his buddy First Sgt. James T. Hollingsworth were holed up in a bunker in the Marble Mountains of Vietnam. Rockets and mortars were raining down all around them, or as Cox puts it,...

PO2 James Nappier Jr.

Nov 10, 2017 | Marines, Navy

James Nappier’s persistence and devotion to serving his country resulted in the improbable scenario of a man in his 40s with a grown child enlisting in–and being accepted by–the Navy’s Seabees. By virtue of his six years in the Marines...