May 23, 2018 | Army
We started out routing the enemy. We overran some of their positions and started taking prisoners with our fixed bayonets. From that point, we were spearheading, advancing our positions, with our artillery behind us and shells going off everywhere. Our unit was doing...
May 20, 2018 | Marines
John Cole was called to active duty from the Marine Reserve in 1950 and assigned to the 5th Marine Regiment in northeastern Korea. In November, Cole’s unit was hit at Yudam west of the Chosin Reservoir by a massive Chinese onslaught in unimaginable 40-below-zero...
May 17, 2018 | Army
In 1942, Jackie Robinson was drafted into the military to a segregated cavalry unit in Kansas. There he also faced discrimination when he and other colored soldiers applied for Officer Candidate School (OCS) and were later accepted after much fighting and debate....
May 9, 2018 | Army
Mr. Hogan took part in the North African as well as the Italian campaigns and he fought in the Battle of Anzio. Not long after Anzio, while on the drive toward Rome, Mr. Hogan was wounded when a German shell exploded near his foxhole. Soon afterwards, he was evacuated...
May 8, 2018 | Navy
James C. Lanz was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, in 1926. In 1943, he followed his two older brothers into the military, enlisting in the Navy on December 7th–two years to the day after Pearl Harbor. Lanz served on a “Landing Ship Tank” LST-34 in the Pacific...
