According to his obituary Leslie, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but moved to Cincinnati when he was one, was drafted into the Army Air Corps in 1943. He trained as an aircraft engine mechanic for medium ...
Aaron Cook, who served as a US Navy Aviation Chief Ordnanceman during the war, died on August 10 at the age of 96. Cook, from Fort Worth, enlisted in the Navy just days after his 18th ...
100-year-old Thomas E. Gwynn survived both D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. While in Normandy, he received a Battle Field Commission to Second Lieutenant, one of the highest honors. The former Army Ranger Lieutenant ...
In 1943, Johnson made history when she enlisted in the United States Army. She became part of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, which was the only all-black female battalion stationed ...
McCue enlisted in the Army in 1943 and fought in an anti-aircraft unit. As per Francisco Urena, the State Secretary of Veterans Affairs, McCue landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day 1944, but survived ...
You read that right. 94-year-old Bronislaw ‘Grom’ Karwowski, who was captured and held as a POW by the Nazis during WWII, only to escape the Gestapo’s HQ, was handed the honor of walking his granddaughter down ...
The year 1933 saw the building of the first concentration camp, where political prisoners were placed. Between 1937 and 1939, the construction of camps was scaled up, and by the end of 1945, there were ...
1933 marked the building of the first concentration camp, where political prisoners were placed. Between 1937 and 1939, the construction of camps was scaled up, and by the end of 1945, there were a total ...