Bronze Star
To the young man that lived a lifetime in just more than 25 years -you gave me another family. Thank you for your sacrafice, drive, and enthusiasm for life. You have an amazing family that truly shares you - each and every time we talk I get to know just a little more of you, Joe. It is becaus...
SSGT Thompson and his crew took off to bomb a railroad bridge at Griegliano, Italy. Weather prevented an attack on the primary target so they diverted to the bridge at Vernio, Franc de Sooty and the bridge at Cecina. During this mission SSGT Thompson's plane was shot down by heavy accurate enemy ...
Birth: Oct. 15, 1916
Death: Apr. 11, 1944
T/Sgt Belcher was the radio operator on a B-24 Liberator that was shot down on the 04/04/1944 on a mission on Bucharest Romania. He did bail out bud died 7 day's later from his wounds.I have build a website in honor of this crew ...
I remember him most for his love of Our Country. He was so proud to defend our freedoms that we just take for granted. He was a wonderful husband to my cousin Missy, a devoted son in law but more than anything a wonderful father and role model to his children.
B-24 Bombardier 2Lt Anthony L. Destro was KIA on 22 DEC 1943. His B-24 #42-7554, nickname "Tail End Charlie" was attacked by a German fighter. His B-24 crashed into the cemetery in Mirns, Netherlands.
LCDR Roger Alaux was the XO for the USS Terror (CM-5) serving in the Asia Pacific arena. Minutes before 4 am on May 1, 1945, as USS Terror lay at anchor in Kerama Retto, a kamikaze dove toward the ship. Darting through a hole in the smoke screen and coming in on Terror's port beam, the attacke...
Private First Class Gordon Eshom Shive
Contributed by Arsh Mengi
Mentored by Mrs. Laurie Halt
Costa Mesa High School
2020-2021
Early Life
Private First Class Gordon Eshom Shive was born on January 10, 1921, to Grover L. Shive and Lois E. Shive in I...
Bill (age 37) was killed in action January 5, 2006 in Najaf, Iraq. A career Army officer, Bill was also a literary scholar, the author of numerous articles and the editor of Private Perry and Mister Poe: the West Point Poems, 1831. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Bill grew up the oldest child...
John “Jack” Hackman enlisted in February 1942, when he was still a freshman at STC (Towson University), just two months after the attack at Pearl Harbor and the US’ entrance into WWII. He joined the US Army Air Forces and was made a pilot in July of 1944.
On October 22, 1944, the Liber...
