Eddie Rickenbaker was born to German-speaking Swiss immigrants on October 8th, 1890, and died on July 23rd, 1973. In his eighty-two years, Rickenbaker witnessed a changing world and always kept up....
Category: Veteran Spotlight
Daniel K. Inouye was a Japanese American man who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. When Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, 17 year-old Daniel served as a medical volunteer helping those who...
Today we want to honor a United States Marine Corps hero by the name of Frank Stanley Reasoner. Frank happens to be somewhat of a local hero for us here in North Idaho, as he was born in Spokane, WA...
Today we want to honor United States Navy Veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale. Stockdale began his 33-year Navy career at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland...
February 3rd, 1943 The SS Dorchester was carrying over 900 men to the Army Command Base at Narsarsuaq in Southern Greenland to begin their service in WWII. The Dorchester was a coastal passenger...
US Navy Captain E. Royce Williams, then and now. On November 18, 1952 US Navy Captain E. Royce Williams and 3 other pilots took off from the USS Oriskany to cut off 7 Soviet...