My father was born in 1899 and was in France in 1919. In Nov 1941 he arrived in Manila and eventually moved to Mindanao where he was when the Southern Command surrendered. He was a poisoner of the Japanese for 3 1/2 years and was transferred to main land Japan in early 1945 and died in a military...
19 year-old SPC Dane Balcon of Colorado Springs, Colo, ; died Sept. 5, 2007 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. Dane R. Balcon was the type of student who paid attention to every detail of his uniform, and everyone else’s, to the point that he could distingui...
Jae Sik Moon was the staff sergeant in the Army who was born in South Korea but grew up in America. He made friends, did lots of activities, go to school and even graduate in America. He was a loving son, family, brother and friend. He had a great life in America, until he graduated from high...
Thomas L Kamrowski
On December 6th, 1939, 26 year old Clifford Hughes of Timpson, Texas joined the United State Army for the second time. Records show he also served from 1934 to 1937 but little else. The 1940 census listed him as a soldier stationed at Fort Brown, Texas near Brownsville. He was a member of the 124...
My Dear Son May you Rest in Peace. Until we meet again... Love Always, Mom
Granville – First reported missing in action in Germany since Nov. 30, the war department Friday informed Mrs. James R. Boyd that her husband, Private Boyd, 23, was killed on that day. His widow, the former Hazel Greathouse is employed at the Seneca shipyard and she and her two sons, Richard, 4 ...
This is my mother Pat Bower with her brother Jim.
I met Alan in 1975. We both worked for my brother who had a beauty supply business. I was the one to hire him, at age 16 he was my first hire. Alan was maybe 2 years older than me. We quickley became best of friends. Shortly after HS I moved out and got my own place and tried to get Alan to do th...
Private First Class Bartholomay was killed in action near Leyte Islands in the Philippines. As a member of the 96th Infantry Division, his Bronze Star citation reads as follows: "Pfc. Bartholomay was a member of an artillery forward observer party attached to an infantry assault battalion. When t...
My Great Uncle, 2LT Leo F Valder; The B-24 he was aboard was downed by fighters on 16 January ’44 over Trieste, Yugoslavia. Believed to be the first 449th Bomb Groups aircraft downed by enemy fighters. 5 KIA and 5 POW. MACR 2325 Our families last Gold Star to date A letter from his Bomb...
The 35th Infantry Regiment Association salutes our fallen brother, SP4 Floyd Gwen Savell, who died in the service of his country on February 14th, 1967 in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. The cause of death was listed as Small Arms/AW. At the time of his death Floyd was 20 years of age. He was from B...
Nick was a wonderful young man and is greatly missed by his family.
David was my older brother. He watched over me. He made me laugh. I loved him very much. He was very funny. He had so many good friends who loved him too. He would have been a wonderful husband and father if he had lived. All of our family love him and miss him still. He is always in our hearts.
