World War II Army Lt. Col. Addison Baker was one of four men who earned the Medal of Honor during…
A wartime odyssey that began with an Italian soldier surrendering to Allied forces is ending 78 years later with his…
Working on a project last week, I had lots of time to reflect about many subjects. As I sat in…
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….
