Omar Bradley was born in February 1893, in Clark, Mo. He grew up in poverty and lost his father when…
Elwood “Pete” Quesada was born in Washington, D.C., in 1904 to a Spanish father and an Irish-American mother. He attended the Wyoming Seminary,…
Known as Kentucky’s last World War I Veteran, Robley Rex was born in May 1901 in a rural town in…
Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk was born in February 1921 in Northumberland, Penn. Growing up, he helped his father with his coal business, moving…
Born in 1896 in Madison Barracks, N.Y., Mark Clark, a third-generation soldier and the son of a colonel, was destined for…
https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/1307/DOD_100866342/DOD_100866342.mp4 Marine Corps Maj. George Herman O’Brien Jr. led several “kids,” as he described them, into a lopsided battle to…
Bradford Freeman was born in 1925 in Artesia, Miss., to a family of eight children. Growing up, the young Freeman worked on his…
