Richard O’Kane graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1934 and commissioned into the Navy. His first assignments were aboard…
James Edwin Webb was born in the small town of Tally Ho, N.C., in 1906. Webb came of age during…
The translator set aside his microphone and stepped away from the podium. For a time, the Americans and South Koreans…
James David Watkins was born in March 1927, in Alhambra, Calif. The son of a successful entrepreneurial family, Watkins’s life…
Luis R. Visot grew up in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and went to college in Wisconsin at Marquette University, where he…
In 1971, Army Spec. 5 Dennis M. Fujii spent five grueling days fending off enemy fighters after his medevac helicopter…
William E. Vicars was born in Paris, Ill., in May 1940 and, a year later, his family moved to Texas….
To a generation of young Americans, the flying aces of World War I inspired many to follow in their footsteps…
Ralph Parr loved to fly. At five years old, his father, a Navy squadron commander, took him flying on his…
Franklin Douglas “Doug” Miller was born in Elizabeth City, N.C., in January 1945 and lived in Albuquerque, N.M. He joined the…
Eugene “Gene” Gerrard wanted to begin his military career at age 17 during the summer of 1941. He worked as a…
Ming Chang was born in Shanghai in 1932. His father was in the U.S. Navy. At the age of 14,…
Don A. Jones was born in Waldron, Mich., in September 1912. He attended Michigan State University, where he studied engineering….