A MARSOC Marine who was killed during a 2012 battle with insurgents in Afghanistan will be awarded the military’s third-highest award for valor.
Gunnery Sgt. Daniel J. Price’s family will receive the Silver Star Medal from Col. Andrew Milburn, Marine Special Operations Regiment comman...
Plum Creek Cemetery Plum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
In loving memory and to honor 1st Lt Robert S. (Bob) Byrnes of Carmichael, California. Sadly, Bob fell on this day February 9, 1968 - 53 years ago in Vietnam 1968, he was just 23 years old and will remain young forever in our hearts. 1st Lt Byrnes is remembered by his brother Jim, his sister-...
Purple Heart
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...
PFC Raymond Bowman received the Bronze Star (Merit) during the Normandy Campaign.
George Poshefko was a Marine stationed at Hickam Air Field in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese carrier planes attacked Pearl Harbor. He survived a strafing run by hiding behind a tree. He was later killed by a sniper’s bullet while attacking a machine gun post on Guadalcanal on Jan. 10, 1943...
Lance Corporal Jeramy Alan Ailes died going house to house searching for dangerous insurgents from around the Arab country in Fallujah, Iraq, on November 15, 2004. Jeramy wanted to be the first one in the houses they searched to help protect the ones under him. Jeramy entered the United States Ma...
Birth: Jul. 25, 1922
Indiana, USA
Death: Apr. 4, 1944, Romania
On the fatal fortieth mission of the 449th Bomb group to the Marshaling Yards of Bucharest,Romania Meddie did a replacement on the Thieme Crew. He was reported ‘missing in action' for a year, before be...
Private Bagaason was awarded the Purple Heart.
Private Marvin Hughes is memorialized at Honolulu Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Bub, You are missed dearly and are thought of everyday. I know I will see you again and cannot wait to give you a big hug and see your wonderful smile again. Love, Mom
My brother served with the 173rd in Vietnam in 66-67 with Co A 1/503rd Airborne Brigade. He was the recipient of the Bronze Star w/V device and OLC along with the Purple Heart and CIB. He returned to the US and assigned to the 2/504th Airborne Brigade 82nd Airborne Division until TET hit. He w...