The door of a Nebraska Air National Guard KC-135R Stratotanker opens and a tall, slender man smiles as crew members…
Gene Harper was born in Ontario, Calif., on April 7, 1923. He is the only child of Lester Maurice Harper…
Paul Kerchum remained unyielding to challenges during his lifetime of service and dedication to his country, his family, and his…
During a 30-year career, Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 4 Harold Edward Wilson saw action during three major wars. His…
Leland Chandler enlisted in the Army in 1941 at just 18 years old, leaving home in central Illinois to serve…
As an officer in the USS Franklin’s engineering department during World War II, Navy Cmdr. Donald Arthur Gary knew all…
Carl Clark was born in 1916. He joined the Navy in the 1930s, when African Americans were permitted to serve only as mess attendants….
It’s not often that overzealousness can lead to a court martial on charges of desertion, but that was the case…
Gabriel Kinney was born in Stouts Mountain, a rural Alabama town, in February 1921 to an Irish father and Scottish mother. He…
One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Brig. Gen. Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse, visited the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division…
Russell Hamler was born in June 1924 and raised in the townships of Mt. Lebanon and Baldwin, Penn., on the…
Born in 1916, Norman Kleiss grew up in Coffeyville, Kansas. He joined the Kansas National Guard in 1931 and served…
Norman Milton Lear was born in July 1922 in New Haven, Conn., to Herman Lear and Jeannette Seicol, and was…
