Lloyd Kilmer Made It Out Of A POW Camp On Liberation Day
Kilmer was from Minnesota and he enlisted in the war in 1942, when he was 21 years old. After finishing his military training, he went…
Jim Cronk Flew 480 Combat Missions In Vietnam
When he was a child, he pretended to be a pilot at his home in Syracuse, N.Y. He would even dress as a pilot for…
WWII B-17 Pilot Signs Historic Wing
In 1943, Harvey went into a boots shop to find out what deposit he had to pay for a new pair. After the bootmaker’s shop…
RAAF Pilot Promoted To Flight Lieutenant after 70 years!
After he was shot down over Germany, Ken Wright had to spend three years in a prison camp, reason for which he never got the…
Former WWII pilot returns for the final time to Tibenham Airfield (UK)
For the past 17 years, Chuck Walker found himself traveling over 150,000 miles to see for the last time the Tibenham Airfield and remember those…
Crew of B-24 that crashed on village of Graveston finally gets a monument
The Garveston memorial team concluded that the crash occurred when 1st Lt. Raymond Sachtleben tried to avoid a midair collision. For decades after, nobody knew who…
Fundraiser to remember Second World War WASPs with float
A man is trying to raise funds to honor his late mother and other Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) who served during the Second World…
Remembering Ferguson Smith, WWII Hero Turned Cold War Spy Catcher
Surprised was the least of words to describe how the London suburb neighborhood Ferguson Smith, full name Ferguson George Donaldson Smith but was mostly known through…
WWII and Monopoly, how it helped captured Airmen escape!
The board game called Monopoly had really come a long way since it was first mass-produced in America in 1934. The game is basically…