Jan 1, 2018 | Navy
On March 4, 1945, a Naval Air Transportation Service plane took off carrying blood, medical supplies and the first flight nurse ever to set foot on an active Pacific battlefield. Ensign Jane Kendeigh was just 22 when her plane broke through the clouds of volcanic dust...
Dec 31, 2017 | Army
Raised in an Anchorage orphanage, Roy Bailey was educated at a school for Alaskan natives until he was 15, when he went to work full time. At 17, he lied about his age to get into the Army and two years later, he found himself in the midst of the European Theater’s...
Dec 29, 2017 | Marines
Norma Gene Rambow was born in Indiana. On December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed. Norma was an eighteen year old freshman at Indiana State Teacher’s College and was very angry and wanted to take revenge. But she had to be twenty to join our women fighting forces....
Dec 28, 2017 | Army
At the not-so-tender age of 42, businessman Alexander Standish joined the war effort, recruited by the Army Air Corps to interview pilots just returned from missions for intelligence information. He was old enough to be the father of many GIs he served with, but his...
Dec 26, 2017 | Army
Charles Tedesco was with the 313th Infantry Regiment, 79th Division during the storming of Omaha Beach and was injured on July 8, 1944. The following is an account of what happened in his own words: “We were not the first to land on Omaha Beach – but soon...
