Marine Corps Capt. Arthur Junior Jackson was a young man in World War II when he singlehandedly blazed a path…
“I’ve always had good luck.” Roy Englert, a 100-year-old World War II Navy veteran, recently said that ahead of his…
World War II Marine Corps Maj. Henry Alexius Courtney Jr. never gave up on his objective as he led a…
Army Capt. Jose Cabalfin Calugas wasn’t a U.S. citizen during World War II, but he fought valiantly for America when…
Gene Harper was born in Ontario, Calif., on April 7, 1923. He is the only child of Lester Maurice Harper…
As an officer in the USS Franklin’s engineering department during World War II, Navy Cmdr. Donald Arthur Gary knew all…
Eugene Sledge was born in November 1923 in Mobile, Ala. He attended Murphy High School, from which he graduated in the spring 1942…
Robert Hempstead always knew he was meant to be on the water. He grew up in Rhode Island, raised by his…
Marine Corps Col. Harvey Curtiss Barnum Jr. barely had time to adjust to Vietnam as a young lieutenant before…
Arthur J. Hubbard Sr. was born in Topawa, Ariz., in January 1912, shortly before Arizona was officially recognized as a state. Hubbard…
