Kenneth H. Olsen was drafted into the Navy during World War II, serving between 1944 and 1946. After his short naval…
Joseph Hernandez Sandoval was born March 8, 1919, in a boxcar in a Silvis, Ill., railyard to Edubigis “Ed” Morado…
We struck at Guadalcanal to halt the advance of the Japanese. We did not know how strong he was, nor…
Anne Eloise Sweeney was born into a famous military family on Sept. 19, 1912, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Her father…
Robert L. Zehetner was born on July 2, 1924, and hailed from Brooksville, Fla. Just after the attack on…
Looking in some old boxes in my closet, I was taking my time looking for something I had no idea…
ROSAMOND, Calif. — It was a long way from Normandy right after D-Day, all the way, almost to Berlin at…
Leo Hoffman didn’t want to serve in the Army during World War II. After passing a test to qualify for…
“I’ve always had good luck.” Roy Englert, a 100-year-old World War II Navy veteran, recently said that ahead of his…
As the Allies prepared to invade Sicily during World War II, Navy Ensign John Joseph Parle was tasked with managing…
Sue Dauser was born in September 1888 in Anaheim, Calif.. In 1907, she enrolled in Stanford University for two years…
Born in May 1922 in Nanticoke, Penn., William Bache was destined like many of those his age to serve the…
“He could have shot me. He could have hung me. But instead, he told me to get the hell out…