CPO Shannon M. Kent

Jan 22, 2019 | Navy

The ISIS-claimed bombing of a restaurant in Syria on Wednesday (January 16, 2019) killed an Army Green Beret with four children, a former Navy SEAL working for the Pentagon’s intelligence agency and a Navy linguist, the Pentagon announced Friday. The servicemembers...

Maj Megan Malia Leilani McClung

Jan 17, 2019 | Marines

Maj. McClung was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. She graduated and received her officer’s commission in 1995. She also earned a master’s degree in criminology from Boston University, just months before she died in 2006. After receiving her...

SGT James A Holmes

Jan 15, 2019 | Army

Wounded 6 Apr 1945 near Oberellem, Germany. After an all day pursuit of German Army personnel, entered Oberellem, freed some civilians from basement of a house and then proceeded to pursue more German soldiers. Spotted a lone soldier across an open field (possibly a...

MAJ Audie Leon Murphy

Jan 3, 2019 | Army

Born in Kingston, Hunt County, Texas, on June 20, 1925, Audie Murphy was raised in a sharecropper’s dilapidated house. Murphy’s father, Emit, fell short on his parental responsibilities, continuing to father children, 12 in all, despite that fact that he...

Lt Col Addison Earl Baker

Dec 28, 2018 | Air Force, Army Air Corps

Lieutenant Colonel Addison Earl Baker (January 1, 1907 – August 1, 1943) was commander of the 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) in the U.S. Army Air Forces who led the group on the low-altitude Allied bombing mission of oil refineries at Ploie?ti, Romania, Operation...