Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Ollie McHone. McHone was killed in action while serving aboard the USS Indianapolis during World War II.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Lee Laz, who served as a bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater and received a Navy Cross during World War II.
Edith White was World War II’s “Code Girl,” working with the WAVES unit to crack Japanese codes in the Pacific.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran O’Neal Gordon Paradis, who served during World War II and in the Korean War before using his GI Bill.
Marine Corps Private Giles McCoy survived for nearly four days after he sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the shark-infested Philippine Sea.
Thomas Hudner earned the first Medal of Honor awarded during the Korean War for trying to save his wingman.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is James Donald Kohl, who served in the Navy during World War II and was in Tokyo when the Japanese surrendered.
Navy Veteran Duane Iossi participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval engagement of World War II.
Army Air Force Veteran Robert Poindexter Pace served during World War II as a Cryptographic officer.
Salvatore Palermo and the USS Dennis fought in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where U.S. and Australian Naval forces hoped to cut off the Japanese fleet.
Julius Siefring left the Army in 1945 with three Bronze Stars. He returned to Ohio and worked as a school bus driver for 43 years while raising his family.
75 years after the United States entered World War II, Filipino Veterans received national recognition when they were recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal – the highest civilian honor the United States can bestow.