Emotional Reunion of a Concentration Camp Survivor and One of His Liberators The first time Joshua Kaufman met Daniel Gillespie was April 29, 1945, when American liberators marched into the notorious DDachau concentration camp 12 miles outside Munich,...
(Originally posted 06 December 2018) Navy Seaman 1st Class William Bruesewitz, killed at the Pearl Harbor attack, will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery Dec. 7 on the 77th anniversary of the incident. Bruesewitz, 26, of Appleton, Wisconsin, was assigned to...
Marvin served as a Staff Sergeant, 13th Bomber Squadron, 3rd Bomber Group, Light, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. He resided in Georgia prior to the war. Marvin was a passenger on B-25D #41-30532. This B-25, while on a ferrying flight from Horanda Airfield to...
Today we want to honor Dovey Johnson Roundtree, a trailblazing lawyer, minister, advocate and inaugural member of the WAAC. She broke barriers, reaching the rank of Captain and recruited so many black women she helped set the groundwork for desegregation in the...
I had just had breakfast and was looking out a porthole in sick bay when someone said, “What the hell are all those planes doing up there on a Sunday? ” Someone else said, “It must be those crazy Marines. They’d be the only ones out maneuvering...
