Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Mo., in July 1907. The arrival of Halley’s Comet in 1910 sparked his…
David C. Schilling was born in December 1918 in Leavenworth, Kansas. Before joining the military, he attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire….
Grace F. Thorpe was born in Oklahoma in December 1921 to Iva Miller and Jim Thorpe. Her mother was Cherokee…
Gil Hodges was born in April 1924, in Princeton, Ind. He was the middle of three children and had a…
Fitzroy “Buck” Newsum was born in New York City, N.Y., in 1918. At age one, he moved to the island of Barbados, where he…
PALMDALE, Calif. — It has been a long, but rewarding journey for a World War II veteran of Chinese American…
Richard O’Kane graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1934 and commissioned into the Navy. His first assignments were aboard…
James Edwin Webb was born in the small town of Tally Ho, N.C., in 1906. Webb came of age during…
James David Watkins was born in March 1927, in Alhambra, Calif. The son of a successful entrepreneurial family, Watkins’s life…
Don A. Jones was born in Waldron, Mich., in September 1912. He attended Michigan State University, where he studied engineering….
Robert “Boots” Chouinard was born in 1923. He enlisted in the Army in 1943, and a year later he was…
Frederick Weyand was born in September 1916, in Arbuckle, Calif. While attending college at the University of California, Berkeley, he…
During Army 2nd Lt. Lloyd Herbert Hughes’ last mission over the skies of Europe in World War II, he had a…