Carl Clark was born in 1916. He joined the Navy in the 1930s, when African Americans were permitted to serve only as mess attendants….
William Robinson Wilson was born in December 1914. As a native of Audubon, Iowa, Wilson attended Iowa State University where…
On May 12, 1938, three Army Air Corps Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, attempting to prove the value of four-engine bombers,…
It’s not often that overzealousness can lead to a court martial on charges of desertion, but that was the case…
Leo Martin “Marty” Schlocker was born in Los Angeles, Calif. He attended Fremont High School and, after graduating, moved to Boulder City,…
Omar Bradley was born in February 1893, in Clark, Mo. He grew up in poverty and lost his father when…
Over the years, women have overcome so many obstacles in their desire to sit behind the controls of an aircraft…
Eugene Sledge was born in November 1923 in Mobile, Ala. He attended Murphy High School, from which he graduated in the spring 1942…
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. joined the military in 1898 as a volunteer in the Spanish-American War and later became the first black…
World War II U.S. Navy veteran William “Bill” Babajian who served in the Pacific during the Battle of Okinawa in…
Gabriel Kinney was born in Stouts Mountain, a rural Alabama town, in February 1921 to an Irish father and Scottish mother. He…
Seventy-eight years ago, U.S. Marines hit the black sand beaches of Iwo Jima, beginning one of the most famous battles…
One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Brig. Gen. Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse, visited the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division…
