Oct 1, 2018 | Marines
“This is not just black history or Marine Corps history. This is American history. The world needs to understand the history of the Montford Point Marines.” –Dr. James T. Averhart Jr., president, National Montford Point Marine Association Clayton Pitre, a Creole...
Sep 30, 2018 | Marines
“This is no ordinary time,” Eleanor Roosevelt said as Europe was being engulfed by war. Stanley Gale Jones, a true survivor, has lived no ordinary life. In 1943, when he was a 17-year-old drifter in his own village, Jones resolved to fight for his country and...
Sep 26, 2018 | Army
Strong love of country drove young WAC to enlist at 16. In 1944, Dorothy-Mae (Hinson) Brandt was four years too young to join her five older brothers serving in America’s armed forces during World War II. Like the estimated 100,000 underage veterans who served in...
Sep 26, 2018 | Navy
Nathan G. Gordon, a Navy pilot who received the Medal of Honor for rescuing aviators in World War II, and who later became Arkansas’ longest-serving lieutenant governor, died Sept. 8, 2008 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. He...
Sep 19, 2018 | Navy
Thomas Hudner had no particular interest in airplanes when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946. He wanted only to serve aboard a ship. But in 1948, after he had been at sea for several months and had worked as a communications officer at Pearl Harbor for a...
