Five husky Waterloo brothers who lost a “pal” at Pearl Harbor were accepted as Navy recruits yesterday at Des Moines.…
Lieutenant Colonel Leon Vance bit his lip and grimaced against the lingering pain as he recovered in an Air Force…
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, also known as the “Six Triple Eight”, remains one of the least recognized yet highly…
About 0200, in a silence so pervasive that men many yards apart could hear each other breathing, I began to…
The 19th Bombardment Group (Heavy) began arriving in the Philippines in October 1941 when the first squadron of B-17s was…
My dad was a World War II vet. Like many others, he was traumatized by combat, and by a nine-month…
Sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were raised in an activist household. After their parents divorced, their mother involved them in fighting injustices.…
First Lieutenant Mark Mathis was the eleventh member of the crew of The Duchess when the B-17F departed Molesworth, England, to fly…
“Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but forgot to put a roof on it.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt The thousands…
The first week of November 1944 was busy for the pilots of Air Group 15, flying from the USS Essex.…