PVT Curtis Adams

Feb 27, 2019 | Army

Pvt Curtis Adams was a farmer. He enlisted at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina on 28 October 1942. He was captured by German troops during the Battle of the Bulge in the town of Wereth, Belgium on December 17, 1944. He along with 10 other African American...

CAPT Thomas G. Kelley

Feb 20, 2019 | Navy

Thomas Kelley was about to graduate from Holy Cross College in Massachusetts in 1960 when his roommates announced that they’d enlisted in the Navy and urged him to do the same. Kelley couldn’t think of any reasons not to, so he joined, too. His first assignment after...

Edward Murphy

Feb 19, 2019 | Army, Police

When Edward Murphy learned, in 1944, he was going to be deployed to Germany in the U.S. Army’s 29th Infantry Division, one of the first things he did was place a photo of the Virgin Mary in his helmet. Growing up, the New York native had frequently attended church...

CPO Carson Raymond Martin

Feb 15, 2019 | Navy

Carson Raymond Martin was born to Martha Frances and Charles Martin on September 3, 1909 in Baltimore, Maryland, the older of two sons. When his father Charles died in the Great Flu Epidemic in 1919, Carson and his brother Harry moved with their mother to her hometown...

COL Robert Sheldon Scott

Feb 14, 2019 | Army

Col. Robert S. Scott, who as a junior Army officer won the Medal of Honor in World War II for beating back a Japanese counterattack in the battle for an airstrip in the Solomon Islands and killing 28 enemy soldiers despite being wounded twice, died on Feb. 5, 1999 at...