Bradway, Edith
Posted on 4 October, 2012 by tom in Veterans By Name, B
Edith was born in 1923 and enlisted in the Navy in 1943. She was storekeeper in Memphis and then in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. During her time in Pearl Harbor in 1944 she saw one of her friends get killed in a lift truck accident. She ultimately enjoyed her military service and felt that she did a valuable service for […]
Black, Bob
Posted on 4 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, B
Bob made more combat parachute jumps than any other man I have interviewed. He jumped into Sicily, Salerno Italy, Normandy, and Holland. He tells of the training it takes to be a paratrooper. Hearing his story truly causes one to marvel at the raw guts that it must take to jump out of a plane at night behind […]
Bavier, Don
Posted on 4 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, B
Don was in the Army on the Island of Corrigidor in Manila Bay after the fall of Bataan on April 9th 1942. The Japanese Army fired as many as 16,000 rounds of artillery per day at Corrigidor. Many men have described an artillery barrage as the worst thing in war because there is absolutely nothing you can do to protect […]
Bakker, Amy
Posted on 4 October, 2012 by in Veterans By Name, B
Amy was born in Java Indonesia in 1920. She was part Indonesian and Dutch. She was married to a Dutchman who ran a rubber plantation on Java when the war broke out on Dec. 8th (the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor, Java was across the International date line). Her husband Paul was […]