LTC Stanley Lane

Jan 4, 2019 | Army

In 1917, Polish immigrant Stanley Lane enlisted in the Army on his 16th birthday. When his age was discovered he was offered a discharge, but he refused. His unit was shipped overseas but Lane was not permitted to go because of then-existing regulations restricting...

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...

Walford J Loder

Dec 30, 2018 | Marines

Way back in December the 10th (or 11th) 1942, Ilene came to me and handed me the enclosed $2 bill. She said: “Wally if you hang onto this bill, you will never be broke!” So I put it in my billfold, and left December the 12th for San Diego , Ca. to start life as a...

Dick Lillie

Dec 29, 2018 | Navy

Photo above: Dick Lillie holding “Blood Chit” he removed from a corpse wearing a pilot’s leather flight jacket. ?Photo courtesy of Britt Taylor Collins, www.bootsonthegroundART.com Meet USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) WWII Veteran Dick Lillie Torpedo...

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...