Army Air Forces

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Ralph A. DiSpirito, who served in the 390th Bomb Group during World War II.

On the anniversary of his birth, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Neil Simon, who served from 1944 to 1946 and became a Broadway legend.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Louis Curdes, who was a World War II ace over North Africa and a prisoner of war.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Milton W. Stern, who served during World War II and was a prisoner of war.

On this Memorial Day, today’s #VeteranoftheDay is dedicated to the Americans killed in action and missing in action during World War II.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran James Willard Doty, who served as a bombardier in the Pacific during World War II.

During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Ben Kuroki, who in World War II as a gunner.

Then-Army Air Forces pilot Warren Halstead flew missions daily out of Coulommiers, France, during World War II. On May 8, 1945, he was at his duty station, on break from dropping supplies and transporting wounded to hospitals in England. The news came in: the war in Europe was over. Seventy-six years later, the retired Air Force colonel still remembers the mixed emotions of Victory in Europe, or V-E, Day.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Hazel Lee, one of two Asian-American Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Gerald F. Martin, who served on reconnaissance and mapping teams in the Pacific during World War II.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Ralph Roy Royster, who served with the 97th Bomb Group in Europe during World War II.

On the anniversary of the Bataan Death March, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Wild Bill Begley, one of the survivors.