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…
Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, America suddenly found itself at war against the combined…
An MQ-9A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft was on hand to respond to the scene of a fire involving a Combined…
World War II veterans, including survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack, joined family, friends, dignitaries, and service members in…
It was dark at Pearl Harbor’s Tripler Hospital on the evening of Dec. 7, 1941. The bombings by the Japanese…
