Maj Wintford “Dick” Bazzell

Nov 15, 2018 | Air Force, Army

Dick Bazzell was born on December 6, 1925, in Delta, Missouri. He served in the U.S. Merchant Marines from September 1943 to July 1944, and then enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 7, 1944. After completing basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, he was assigned...

MajGen Charles F. Bolden, Jr.

Nov 13, 2018 | Marines

Aerospace engineer and Major General (ret.) Charles F. Bolden, Jr. was born on August 19, 1946 in Columbia, South Carolina. He graduated from C.A. Johnson High School in 1964. Both of his parents, Charles and Ethel Bolden, were teachers and stressed the importance of...

1st Lt. Mary L. Hawkins

Nov 2, 2018 | Air Force

On Sept. 24, 1944, 1st Lt. Mary Louise Hawkins was evacuating 24 patients from the fighting at Palau to Guadalcanal when the C-47 ran low on fuel. The pilot made a forced landing in a small clearing on Bellona Island. During the landing, a propeller tore through the...

PVT Jimmy L Johnson

Oct 27, 2018 | Army

Houston native Jimmy Johnson saved lives. As a Dustoff medic in Vietnam, the young Army soldier was the central member of a four-person crew who flew unarmed into battle every day – sometimes several times a day – to rescue people hurt in the war. Johnson flew 800...

Brig Gen Robin Olds

Oct 12, 2018 | Air Force

Brigadier General Robin Olds was the director of aerospace safety in the Air Force Inspection and Safety Center, a separate operating agency and an organization of the Office of the Inspector General, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. General Olds has worldwide...