Forster, Leo
Posted on 4 October, 2012 by tom in Veterans By Name, F
I met Leo in Florida in 2003 on a tennis court. I recognized his accent as German so I asked him if he was German he said that he was so I asked him if he had been in WWII. He replied that he had been. We became friends over the next 6 years and […]
Gilton, Bill
Posted on 4 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, G
3 Brothers and 1 Brother-In-Law. Bill Gilton is 3rd from left. Bill Gilton was born in Southeast Ohio in 1921. When Pearl Harbor was attacked he wanted to go into the Marine Corps as quickly as possible to get into the fight ( I heard this over and over again from other men too). Bill […]
Goss, Don
Posted on 4 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, G
Tonight I would like to tell you about a brave Army infantryman named Don Goss. Don was in the 29th Infantry Division. Some of you may know that the 1st and 29th Inf. Div. were the two Army Inf. Divisions that were assigned the horrible job of taking Omaha Beach on the 6th of June […]
Dakin, Bill
Posted on 26 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, D
Bill enlisted in the Marine Corps in February of 1942. Bill went into what was called the Marine Raiders which were groups of Battalion sized infantry. There were four Raider Battalions. Bill was in the 1st Raider Battalion named after its leader Col. Merritt A. Edson or Edson’s Raiders. Col. Edson received the Medal of […]
Yehl, Gene
Posted on 26 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, Y
Gene Yehl was a Marine in the 5th Marine Division during the fighting at the horrible little 8 sq. miles of hell known as Iwo Jima where the famous picture of the men raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi taken by photographer Joe Rosenthal. Gene enlisted in the Marine Corps in March of 1942 just […]
Bahlau, Fred
Posted on 26 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, B
I would like to blog today to tell you about a man named Fred Bahlau who I have known for six years. Fred was born in 1923 in Michigan. He enlisted in the Army where he soon volunteered to become a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division. Fred started his training at Ft. Benning and […]
Salizar, Bruno
Posted on 26 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, S
Bruno was born in 1922 and went into the Army Air Corps in 1942. He was trained as a Engineer/50 Caliber machine-gunner on the heavy bomber a B-24 named “Stinky” he was assigned to the 546th bomb group of the 8th Air Force which was also called the Mighty 8th or the Fighting 8th. I […]
Bleil, Dr. Eugene
Posted on 26 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, B
I have two interviews that were taken in November of 2011 with Dr. Bleil. On the first interview which covers his history from Dec 7th 1941 (the 8th of Dec. in the Philippines). Quickly Dr. Bleil who is a airplane mechanic until the attack by the Japanese is given 15 minutes of infantry training and […]
McLogan, Russell
Posted on 26 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, M
Russell talks about being machine gunned at 18 yrs of age in the Philippine Islands. As well as the 89 days he spent in hospitals.
Brown, Woody
Posted on 26 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, B
Woody tells what fighting in the Pacific on Peleliu was like. It was 115 degrees and the Marines had to drink water from containers that had held gasoline before they were used for their drinking water. Woody drank out of mud puddles because the water from the cans tasted so bad. Woody was wounded […]