WO Robert Reynolds Myra

Jan 16, 2018 | Coast Guard

Myra enlisted in the Coast Guard Merchant Marines in October of 1945, at the young age of 17. He served in the Stewards Department as a Messman- Utility Man. Within a months’ time, he was promoted to Warrant Officer, a very quick promotion during that era!...

MSG Albert Podlaski

Jan 12, 2018 | Army

Albert Podlaski was serving with Battery B of the 51st Field Artillery Battalion during World War II. On December 1, 1944, he was wounded in action. Sergeant Podlaski was wounded when his cannon had to be repaired during a fierce battle . At the risk of his own life...

Pvt Marjorie Tredway Flack

Jan 7, 2018 | Marines

“Join the Marines to release a Marine to fight,” read the billboard down the street from where Marjorie Tredway worked as a secretary in 1943. Excited to show her patriotism, she joined the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, two months after...

LTG Julius Wesley Becton, Jr.

Jan 6, 2018 | Army

Military Officer and federal government administrator Julius W. Becton, Jr. was born on June 29, 1926 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania to Julius Wesley and Rose Banks Becton. He joined the Army Air Corps in July 1944 and graduated from Infantry Officer Candidate School in...

LT Jim Downing

Jan 4, 2018 | Navy

When Jim Downing was 28, he had already been in the Navy for nine years. He joked that the USS West Virginia was his multi-million-dollar home, paid for by Uncle Sam, but he happened to be off the ship on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl...