Private First Class Bartholomay was killed in action near Leyte Islands in the Philippines. As a member of the 96th Infantry Division, his Bronze Star citation reads as follows: "Pfc. Bartholomay was a member of an artillery forward observer party attached to an infantry assault battalion. When t...

Captain William Kimball Merrill, son of Paul William Merrill and Georgia Granger Merrill. Born on 26 Feb 1922 in Windsor, Connecticut, enlisted in the U.S. Army 25 Nov 1940 in Miami, FL, served in the 108th Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division, died 27 Mar 1945 in the Philippine Campaign, aw...

Bruce was a good friend of mine. He was a good person. He was non judgmental and was always there for you. My only regrets with knowing Bruce was that it was much to short of a time.

Your friend Bruce

Oh, they've got no time for glory in the Infantry. Oh, they've got no use for praises loudly sung. But in every soldier's heart in all the Infantry Shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young.

(Shines the name, Rodger Young! Fought and died for the men he marched among. To th...

Here is Bertram's portrait

Thank you for your service

Wife's Grandfather

In December 2012, more than four decades after his father’s funeral, Paul Clever, 52, was sitting on an embankment in the Laotian jungle. He was exhausted, drenched in sweat, and feeling hopeless. He considered giving up after two days of wielding a machete through dense jungle. He asked himse...

Robert Jezewski was an Aviation Machinist Mate stationed on the USS Pokomoke, a seaplane tender, stationed at Tawi Tawi, the southern most island in the Philippines. On June 6, 1945 Robert rode on a PBM-5 Mariner patrol bomber with 13 other men. It was a routine patrol but enemy merchant ships ...

Brother of William D Disney

Remembering Abraham:
In 1998, during the Liberian civil wars, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Abraham Tarwoe, then age 12, fled the violence of his home country, searching for peace in Providence, RI. “For many reasons, he didn’t want to leave Liberia, he had his friends and his life, but he s...

Melford Ray Collins was born in Muleshoe, Texas to Fred R Collins and Betty Jewell Hulcey.
He died in the Gulf War at the Persian Gulf, Arabia, He was awarded a Purple Heart by the US Army.
Wife: Norma Ruth Ann Herrington
Children: Betty Jean Collins

Army Pfc. M...

"Anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a daddy." - Anonymous Eugene was a excellent daddy, his children were his life. He was the fun parent, always wrestling with the kids, teaching them how to fish or throw a baseball. He liked to play tricks on the kids every chance he could...

"And Jacob Feinstein, a sergeant from Maryland in the 135th Infantry who died on April 29th, 1943, no doubt passed during the epic battle for Hill 609, where the American Army came of age."

Excerpt from "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943" by Rick Atkinson

Hospitalman Melvin Windham is buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas.

According to Findagrave.com:

On May 09, 1968, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, was the point company in a battalion-sized operation pursuing North Vietnamese Army elements that...