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…
Born in 1916, Norman Kleiss grew up in Coffeyville, Kansas. He joined the Kansas National Guard in 1931 and served…
Born in 1922, Herb Elfring spent his early childhood in South Dakota. After his family lost their farm in 1932, he…
Marine Corps Col. Harvey Curtiss Barnum Jr. barely had time to adjust to Vietnam as a young lieutenant before…
Growing up, Keith M. Little was discouraged from speaking Navajo in school. Having only been taught Navajo growing up in…
LANCASTER, Calif. — If there was one thing the World War II veteran was looking forward to, it was his…
More than 1,100 sailors died on the USS Arizona when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Those…
Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk was born in February 1921 in Northumberland, Penn. Growing up, he helped his father with his coal business, moving…
by Larry Grooms special to Aerotech News In a Nov. 11, 2022, address to the Veterans Day audience at the…
Army Pfc. Joe Nishimoto faced discrimination during World War II because of his Japanese lineage, but that didn’t stop him…
