Nov 16, 2019 | Navy
John Bulkeley was a 1933 graduate of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Since Bulkeley could not gain an appointment to the Academy from his hometown in New Jersey, he got one from Texas instead. Bulkeley joined the Army Flying Corps after...
Nov 10, 2019 | Navy
Bernard Schwartz (better known as Tony Curtis) was born June 3rd of 1925 in his hometown of the Bronx in New York. He lived there all the way until the second World War was declared from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tony forged his mother’s signature and joined The...
Nov 5, 2019 | Army
Floyd Sims was born in Michigan during the Depression in 1929. During World War Two, his family moved to Saginaw to work in the war factories. At 16 Floyd graduated first in his class as an engineer draftsman and was hired by a local manufacturing company. After two...
Nov 2, 2019 | Navy
Fire Controlman Second Class (FC 2/C) Lauren Bruner’s battle station on the morning of December 7, 1941, was in the port-side 5” antiaircraft gun director located on the sky control deck high in the forward superstructure, just above the flag bridge, 70 feet above the...
Oct 26, 2019 | Army
Commander of the 6th Port HQ Company under General Patton. As sub-port commander, he led the landings at Casablanca in 1942, and again at Salerno in 1942, and finally at Cavaliere in Southern France in 1944, where the French Navy at Toulon threatened the landing...
