world war ii

Voron Baughan went to Biak Island, New Guinea where he was assigned to the 90th Bomb Group Heavy with the 321st Bomb Squadron.

In 1943, Joseph Galano left his junior year at Fordham College, New York City when he was drafted into the Army during World War II.

Cpl. Harry Weber enlisted in the Army during World War […]

Samuel Tom Holiday went on to join the group of Navajo Code Talkers who used a communication code enemies could not decipher.

Samuel Aprea enlisted in the Navy at the Recruiting Station in Boston, at the age of 17; after his brother-in-law was killed in action in Italy.

Wilfred Anderson served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. He was stationed on the USS Morris in the South Pacific where he earned rank of Radioman Second Class

Before being drafted into the Army Air Corps 1943, James Humbert was a cadet at the Kentucky Military Institute and spent one semester at the Citadel.

2nd Lt. Sidney Jacob Malatsky served as a bombardier in […]

Harold Mabrey was born in February 1927. He was drafted into the Army. Harold trained in Texas before entering the war, where he served in Japan.

Millie Dunn Veasey was a member of the “Six-Triple Eight” Central Postal Battalion, the only all-black, all female battalion to serve overseas during WWII.

Marion Baker completed basic training at Camp Livingston before being deployed with the first wave of occupation troops in Japan during World War II.

Arthur Mainzer arrived in Weimar a few days after the liberation and spent a week there filming and photographing the concentration camp.