George H. Horton

Aug 27, 2018 | Air Force, Army, Navy

Branches of Military Service I Served In: U.S. Navy Serial Number 202-04-66, U.S. Army & Massachusetts National Guard Serial Number 21295699, U.S. Air Force Serial Number AF21295699.  Also sailed ships in Merchant Marines. My Naval service ships I served on:  USS...

LTJG Neil Armstrong

Aug 22, 2018 | Navy

Born on the family farm in northwest Ohio on August 5, 1930, Neil Armstrong attended Blume High School in Wapakoneta before entering aeronautical engineering studies at Purdue University in 1947. His education was paid for by the Holloway Plan, under which he...

CRM Lillian L. “Fraz” Fravell

Aug 16, 2018 | Navy

Lillian L. “Fraz” Fravell was born in the small town of Orient, IL to a coal miner and housewife. She was the sixth sibling of nine brothers and eight sisters. She enjoyed having fun with her seventeen siblings and liked growing up in a small town. Fraz especially...

Angus Gilbert Green

Aug 4, 2018 | Navy

Service dates:  April 1, 1944 – January 1, 1946 Age at enlistment:  21 Marital status:  Married to Marjorie Slaughter February 28, 1944, who waited for him in Tyler, Texas. Basic training:  Farragut, Idaho Deployed:  San Francisco Port on a troop carrier to the...

CAPT Dorothy Stratton

Aug 3, 2018 | Coast Guard, Navy

In 1942 Stratton took a leave of absence from Purdue University and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. Naval Reserve, which was also known as the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service). She later credited Lillian...

Emmy Lu Daly

Jul 27, 2018 | Navy

Emmy Lu Daly spent two years in the Navy surrounded by ship parts, but she never saw a ship. Or the ocean, for that matter. She worked at a naval supply depot in Clearfield, Utah, checking inventory and shipping out materials during and after World War II. She joined...