Bobby was my closest friend, when we were at Camp Pendelton staging Bn I would go home with him to Indio, Ca. His family treated me like a son, we both left together for Vietnam, I was medevaced home and Bobby stayed. He was the bravest Marine I ever knew. There isnt a day that goes by that I d...
USS Arizona Whale Boat Team
Standing left to right:
Lawrence J. Griffin, Herbert A. Dreesbach, Marvin A. Hughes, John McRay Baker, Eugene Brickley, Gordon E. Shive, and Burnis L. Bond.
Kneeling left to right:
Francis J. Pedrotti, Robert C. Erskine, Robert W. Dunnam, Donald E...
The name of Sergeant Philip Howell Childs, US Army Air Forces can be found on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
Philip Childs was born on February 7th, 1919 to Benjamin Terrell Childs (1899 – 1987) and Ada Oxsheer Childs (1899 – 1965). His...
Doc Mike Flood was our medic. He was a great guy and took good care of us. I remember several times he treated me for open sore infections. The last time he teated me we were in the A Shau Valley where we spent a lot of our time. I had sores and swelling up and down both legs so he sent me ba...
T SG Walter Roth was the top turret gunner aboard the B-17 Flying Fortress "Mary Ellen II" when it crashed after a mid-air collision above Rickinghall, Suffolk.
Gordon and Malcolm Shive
I was only 8 when you went missing, and I have to tell you Dad, I wish I had gotten the chance to get to know you better. I was just too young to really remember more than just a moment here or there – a wonderful glimpse back of a special memory; a snapshot really (a coke shared at your work whe...
Private First Class William L. Sanders was born in 1947 in Denver, Colorado. He joined the Army in August 1966 and was deployed to Vietnam in January 1967 as a member of the 615th Military Police Company. Private First Class Sanders and his fellow military policemen were serving as a highway ...
Silver Star
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Awarded posthumously for actions during the Global War on Terror
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pride in presenti...
Hi..bro...my big handsome beautiful looking brother..inside and out..i still miss you and love. You alot..and i still visit the national cemetry where u were buried...and i brought your niece jeanette and nephew kristopher..quite often as well...they never knew you but they know my dedication and...
Air Medal