St. Angelo Hill, Chianzi Pass, Italy Taken immediately after taking St. Angelo Hill. The arrow points to Babe. Daddy writes that "they are pretty well tuckered out." Mac McKinnon is standing at Babe's left shoulder and "Blackie" Friedman is on Mac's left side.
Albert I miss you so much, you are my Camo Angel now, may the memories of you live on forever!!
Alden Synstad is a man I never had the pleasure to meet. Sadly few are alive today who had the pleasure.
My mother was a small child when Alden left his home in Northern Wisconsin to join the Marines. He was killed during the Battle of Okinawa. He returned home to be buried after the ...
Never met though we are, long travelled have we together. Rest well Warrior with our everlasting thanks and love.
For 68 years my family did not know the exact circumstances of my great uncle's death until I received the following information from the 29th Infantry Division on 13 January 2012:
"Private Baldwin joined Company E, 115th Infantry, on Sept. 4, 1944 as a replacement, in the middle of t...
Missing World War II Soldiers Identified
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:02:00 -0500
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 660-11
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced Monday that the remains 12 U.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have ...
PFC Vernon Bailey and wife Elva Loretta Robinson, 1943.
I <3 you. Yesterday, today,tomorrow and for forever. My soldier, My hero, my husband, my love.
Major Ralph Truitt Amoss is buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England in Plot E, Row 1, Grave 68. At the age of 21 Ralph Amoss joined the US Army from Austin, Texas on November 25, 1940. Sometime after completing basic training as a Private he was accepted for flying school, b...
May the memory of your sacrifice live in eternity.
Nineteen days after Shelby County Texas suffered its fifth loss to the Vietnam War, Jerry Lynn Hughes became the sixth. He was drafted into the US Army in May, 1966 at the age of 20. He took his basic training and Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
His tour in Vietna...
Sergeant Yntema received the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life and above and beyond the call of duty. Sergeant Yntema, U.S. Army, distinguished himself while assigned to Detachment A-431, Company D. As part of a larger force of civilian ...
Bronze Star (Merit)