Apr 11, 2019 | Air Force
Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, the last survivor of the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. strike on the Japanese islands during World War II, died Tuesday (April 9, 2019) in Texas. He was 103. Cole was one of 80 men sent to target factory areas and military installations...
Apr 6, 2019 | Navy
My name is Mary Duchesnay. I was born in Québec City in 1920. In 1939 I passed the civil servants examination for bilingual shorthand and typing, and stayed home to help my mother. Then I was called by National Defence – the naval control in Québec City –...
Apr 4, 2019 | Army
Samuel Edward Hardy was inducted into the United States Army on November 1, 1942. He took his basic training at Fort Knot, KY. He was shipped overseas to North Africa on the ship Empress of Japan. He landed at Casablanca then moved to Cork Forest of Rebat. His group...
Mar 29, 2019 | Marines
Ruth Cheney Streeter (1895-1990) of Morristown was appointed the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. Before this appointment, Streeter served as president of the Visiting Nurse Association in 1923 and was...
Mar 28, 2019 | Navy
John M. Roddy, Jr. was born on 16 July 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He volunteered after graduating high school and was inducted on 6 November 1944 as an Apprentice Seaman, Class V-6, U.S. Naval Reserve, SV, for a period of two years. He went to Basic Training at USNRS...
