Lt(JG) William “Bill” Gardner

Nov 21, 2018 | Navy

I served as “M” Division officer on the Idaho from July 1944 thru decommissioning in May 1946. I am 97 and healthy, living in an independent retirement facility [Letter dated 12/7/17]. All my family has settled in NC, including son and daughter, 4 grands...

Dean A Jensen

Nov 18, 2018 | Army

These are some of the pictures of my dad in WWll with General Patton while they where fighting. My dad’s job was to gather the dead bodies and keep records where they are at in the cemetery. His company was with the front line from France, Belgium, Holland,...

MSG Catharine Deitch

Nov 16, 2018 | Army

Catharine Deitch was born in Pennsylvania in 1919 and vividly remembers the day in 1929 when the banks closed and the Depression started. Her family had cultivated 28 acres of corn, wheat, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, etc. and they had apple, cherry and black...

Maj Wintford “Dick” Bazzell

Nov 15, 2018 | Air Force, Army

Dick Bazzell was born on December 6, 1925, in Delta, Missouri. He served in the U.S. Merchant Marines from September 1943 to July 1944, and then enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 7, 1944. After completing basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, he was assigned...

CPL Frank Buckles

Nov 11, 2018 | Army

Washington (CNN) — Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110. Lawmakers Monday began to move ahead with proposed resolutions that would allow his casket to be displayed at the Capitol...