Born in 1916, Norman Kleiss grew up in Coffeyville, Kansas. He joined the Kansas National Guard in 1931 and served…
Lyon Sprague de Camp was born in New York City in November 1907. He moved to California in 1926 to…
Born in 1922, Herb Elfring spent his early childhood in South Dakota. After his family lost their farm in 1932, he…
George Ciampa, born in 1925, desired to have a career in flying. Following his high school graduation at the age of…
Elwood “Pete” Quesada was born in Washington, D.C., in 1904 to a Spanish father and an Irish-American mother. He attended the Wyoming Seminary,…
Marine Corps Col. Harvey Curtiss Barnum Jr. barely had time to adjust to Vietnam as a young lieutenant before…
Meals have always been an important part of military life — for sustainment as well as enjoyment. On holidays, the…
Noble Lee Sissle was born in July 1889 in Indianapolis, Ind. He moved to Cleveland in 1909, graduated from Central…
Lewis Millett was born in December 1920 in Mechanic Falls, Maine, and was raised in South Dartmouth, Mass. Enlisting in the Massachusetts…
Army Tech. Sgt. Ralph George Neppel suffered devastating injuries after being blown up by a tank in Germany toward…
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…
