LTJG Babcock received the Purple Heart for his service.
I didn't realize it as much until we lost you that I had the most amazing role model growing up. Uncle Brian, you will always make me strive to be a better person. You always wanted to help people. You always worked hard and no matter what obstacle life threw at you, you overcame it. From joining...
Photo of Paul Hamaker with Father Reuben S. Hamaker in 1944, prior to shipping out to Europe.
Captain Bob Arvin graduated from Ypsilanti High School as Valedictorian in 1961. Bob had captained the wrestling team and quarterbacked the “Braves” football squad. In addition, he had been student council president, president of his class for one year and the 1961 Michigan 154 pound wrestling ch...
Missing you so much - I was only 6 when you left us ... I have some beautiful memories.... wish that I had more.
You have Four Grandchildren - two are mine (Mike and Julie) two are my sister's (Shane and Brett) -- currently there are 'five' great grands as well... Brett, Alek, Daemon...
Captain James B. Aageberg was born on September 1, 1918 in Indiana. He was married to Mabel Irene Robbins. He enlisted in the army on November 7, 1942 and was killed in action on January 21, 1945 when his P-47D 44-20424 airplane went down near Burtonville, Belgium.
According to the Am...
Distinguished Flying Cross
Nick was my late grandfather's brother and entered the service from Cleveland, Ohio. He served as a paratrooper with C. Co 1/505th PIR, 82nd Airborne from November 1942 until his death on July 6, 1944 in Normandy. He made three successful combat jumps during the war: Sicily, Salerno, and Normandy...
1st Lt. William "Bill" James Gray, Jr., 21, was killed in action at 1:00 PM on April 16, 1945, while serving his country in Lindau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
Bill was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 27, 1923. He graduated in 1940 at the age of 16 from Franklin High School at the...
Pvt. Stanley K. Heestand was killed in action in France August 5, 1944, his mother, Mrs. Mildred Heestand, 457 Cleveland Ave., learned this morning in a telegram from the War Department. Heestand was previously reported missing in action on that date.
The 51st Ashland countian to lose ...
Dad,
You are forever remembered with love and pride.
Your loving daughter, Kelly