Walter “Wally” M. Schirra Jr. was born in New Jersey in 1923. He graduated from high school in 1940 and enrolled in…
World War II Navy Rear Adm. Bruce McCandless lost most of his ship’s senior officers during an intense fight during…
Born in 1896 in Madison Barracks, N.Y., Mark Clark, a third-generation soldier and the son of a colonel, was destined for…
A new strategy during World War I involving the air and sky drastically altered the concept of warfare and allowed…
Army Pfc. Joe Nishimoto faced discrimination during World War II because of his Japanese lineage, but that didn’t stop him…
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month more than one hundred years ago, the guns…
Edward Chan is a World War II Veteran who initially enlisted in the Army at 18 years old. He joined…
Marine Corps and the rest of the region’s military family circle turned out to celebrate the City of Palmdale’s work…
Lewis Nixon III enlisted in the Army in January 1941 and attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. While…
https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/1307/DOD_100866342/DOD_100866342.mp4 Marine Corps Maj. George Herman O’Brien Jr. led several “kids,” as he described them, into a lopsided battle to…
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne was born in New York City in July 1926. Gwynne’s father was a successful stockbroker whose job…
LANCASTER, Calif. — Lou Moore qualified for pilot training in World War II, but it was a rough landing in…
When Dick Rutan sent me this photograph, taken at the Reno Air Races 2022, my mind started racing with memories…
