Rumsey E. Dodson was a native of Madison County, Va., born in 1894 to Joseph and Elizabeth Dodson. He was…
Bernard Oliver Scott was born on Aug. 17, 1917, the second of six children, in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood, a…
Joseph B. Avilés Sr. was born on Feb. 3, 1897, in Puerto Rico, when the island was still a Spanish…
Ralph Rodriguez Jr. was born on Oct. 25, 1917, in Bernalillo, N.M. After joining the Army as a medic, he…
Thomas Daniel Saunders was a Northern Cheyenne Indian born in Medicine Bow, Wyo., on April 28, 1892. At the outset…
Emory Scott West was born on Sept. 12, 1874, in Troy, W.Va. He attended several schools there and would go…
Navy Ensign Charles Hazeltine Hammann was one of the first U.S. military aviators who went to battle when the country…
Bernard McCoy was born Nov. 24, 1887, in County Longford, Ireland, the son of John and Bridget Cole McCoy. Barney,…
Sue Dauser was born in September 1888 in Anaheim, Calif.. In 1907, she enrolled in Stanford University for two years…
Ernest King was born in November 1878 in Lorain, Ohio. He initially developed a naval interest through reading a “Youth’s Companion” magazine article…
