On the 23rd of December 1943 @ 1100 hrs a Douglas C-47B Skytrain 43-60733 of the 27th Air Transport Group, 87th Transport Squadron, 8th USAAF. The crew was flying back to Grove Air Station from RAF St Mawgan when the aircraft crashed into the summit of Brown Willy Tor on Bodmin Moor in fog. The f...
World War II pilot's remains found in tree, return for burial 72 years later.
For more than 70 years a tree protected the remains of a World War II fighter pilot from Washington state whose plane crashed in Germany in 1945.
The remains of Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William Gr...
Staff Sgt. Patrick H. Quinn, 26, of Quarryville, Pa., died Oct. 13, 2013 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when the enemy attacked his base with small arms fire. He was a Green Beret and 2005 graduate of Solanco High School. Patrick was born in Delaware, a son of Howard Quin...
Thank you for your selfless service to our great Nation. I also served in the US Army, I was born in 1970; in August that year, 6 months after you died. I actually was searching for military records for my birth father (Randy Hollis) who was your step-brother. That makes me your niece, althoug...
Her car is parked in our lot. It’s so mundane. Simple. But it’s there. My very best friend, my person, my sister forever. My other half. We were boots together, Corporals together, & then Sergeants together. Roommates for over 3 years now, from the barracks at MOS school to our house here. We’v...
PFC George Babcock was killed at the Invasion of Saipan and awarded the Purple Heart.
Justin told me when I ask why are you joining the Marines. Dad a father came on the radio after the battle of Faluhja saying how proud he was of his son whom he had just lost in that battle. "Dad I cannot sit here back at home while my peers are fighting and dying over there for my freedom. I hav...
You are being honored in Normal Illinois with a banner which will be on display from Memorial Day to Veterans Day every year. Maybe someday our hometown of Toledo, IL will follow the other towns who are remembering their fallen heroes.