Although, I have never met him in person, Billy Grieves is the kind of person I strive to be. I told him that they could take the plane and dump it. “They knew I hadn’t gone AWOL to get away from the front lines, but that I had gone AWOL to get to the front lines,” remembered Wells, after being questioned about his disappearance.

He married Esther Ohr in 1946, and they had three children together.For a majority of his career, Disanza was usually at sea on a boat. His most noteworthy battle during this time was on Iwo Jima. There were army cots lining the walls, covered in dust, and the toilets and the showers had no coverings whatsoever! It was only after an hour’s flight that Harry and the turret gunner, Manning, found out that they were flying to meet a Japanese task force heading toward Midway. The fact that he was able to remain this way throughout all of the things he went through during his time in World War II, shows that he deserves a salute to courage for his contribution in World War II.After Pearl Harbor, Ward traveled with the USS San Francisco on various missions to Wake Island, the Coral Sea, and Auckland, New Zealand. His death became one of Vraciu’s major motivations during the war. Song of the Brook (A Beka Book Reading Program) At his retirement, Wells was married with three children, and eventually settled in Denver, Colorado to work at the US Mint. Jefferson stayed in service at the Tuskegee Army Airfield until it closed in 1946. Snapp and her fellow female pilots were then stationed in North Carolina, where she flew many missions that were previously only done by men. At 90 years old, that’s pretty impressive.Howard E. Brooks, born in 1919 in Greeneville, Tennessee, served in World War II in the United States Navy. Trails to Explore (A Beka Book Reading Program, 4d) His flying skills, bravery, courage, plus luck are why he was able to continue flying. Lansford remembers escaping from a flank attack at night by marching with each Marine holding on to the sheath of the bayonets in front of them, “like elephants marching trunk to tail.”As World War II began to heat up, Helen joined the service- one of the few women of her time to do so. As a result, he was the Navy’s leading ace for four months and by the end of the war, he was the fourth-ranking Navy ace. Shortly after he arrived the US flag was flown atop Mt. Translators would decode the messages and give them to typists to type them up; these were then given to the senior watch officer, who read them and passed them to researchers. He worked 12 hours a day, every day, for 3 years there.It is thanks to men like Herman Paul Bailey that we are still a free country today. Buy a cheap copy of Salute to Courage book . Rotondo, Wells courageously volunteered to hold back the Germans as his battalion retreated, before following to San Pietro under enemy fire. So with a little string pulling, Ramage found himself at the U.S. He received two Navy Crosses for his bravery.

On December 16 of that same year, Wilkins’ men experienced a German artillery barrage and Wilkins, along with his men, were forced to surrender. This man is James Starnes.David Jones was born in Marshfield, Oregon, and moved to Tucson, Arizona when his sister became ill with tuberculosis. Commander Grant was impressed by Vraciu’s courage to stay, so the Commander gave him orders to serve at Pearl Harbor. As the transport hit the beach Jim told his best friend, “See you later tonight.” Jim went left, his friend went right and Jim never saw his friend again. . Participating in the project affirmed in me the necessity of preserving history. “Iron Mike” received two Purple Hearts for these wounds.Snapp and her sister joined the Civilian Pilot Program, which taught civilians to fly. Revealing his Kansas roots, Kleiss stated that the inferno from the ships looked like, “haystacks on fire.” Dangerously low on gas, Kleiss and the other SBDs had to make their way back to the Enterprise, leaving the Hiryu unscathed.As a senior in high school in 1937, Ohr knew the United States would be pulled into war soon.