Pearl Harbor Account
Courier Tribune15 Dec 1941page 1 Eye Witnessto Pearl H’B’r Saw Jap Planes Fall The Pilots Commit SuicideFred Koelzer’sLetter Confident It brings the Jap raid at… Read More »Pearl Harbor Account
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Memorial Day
Today is the day that was established to honor those who died while serving our country. Can you identify your ancestors or cousins whom we… Read More »Memorial Day
Chief Master Sergeant
Have you ever celebrated when you find an obituary that details a military career? Well, I’m celebrating today! As I’m researching cousins, I’ve finally found… Read More »Chief Master Sergeant
Redeployment
Can you imagine spending the winter in the snow in Belgium during the winter of 1944-1945? Then can you imagine that when the war ended… Read More »Redeployment
Another Military Mystery
Do the fragments of information about an ancestor or distant cousins military service frustrate you? I know that even though my dad shared some of… Read More »Another Military Mystery
Flashback
In honor of the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and what would have been my father’s 94th birthday on Dec. 8th, I am posting photos… Read More »Flashback
WASP
Do you have a W.A.S.P. in your tree? No, I’m not talking about the insect but about the women who served as pilots during world… Read More »WASP
Plane Down
Well, a Find a Grave memorial has done it again. They have just enough information about a military service member to prompt me to find… Read More »Plane Down
Rest of Story – Hers
I recently wrote about Ernest Eugene Ricketts who was captured while serving for the U.S. Navy, help prisoner at Cabannatun and rescued by the Army… Read More »Rest of Story – Hers
Rest of the Story
When researching a distant cousin, do you ever run across some information about that cousin that just begs you to research more of the story?… Read More »Rest of the Story