He'd gone undefeated as an amateur boxer, becoming a fighter at the urging of his drill sergeant who had seen him beat a taunting bunkmate in his barracks at the U.S. Army Air Forces training camp in ...
Former WWII POW Russell Scott pauses during an interview at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, March 26, 2014 and looks at the model he built of a B25J, similar to the one he ...
Sgt. Cruz Coyazo is coming home after more than 76 years. The Redlands native was a tail gunner on a B-26 Marauder during World War II when his plane was shot down in a burst of flames during a ...
Tail gunner Cruz Coyazo, the youngest of eight siblings, was 24 when his B-26 Marauder was shot down over Germany during World War II. On March 2, 1945, his parents, who mostly spoke Spanish, received ...
George Importe, a wiry B-17 tail gunner who flew 35 bombing missions over Germany during World War II and came to know the real meaning of the phrase "taking flak," died at his home in Auburn (Placer ...
Today is Veterans Day, a day honoring the service of those in the armed forces and celebrated with parades nationwide. According to the U.S. Census, there are more than 550,000 veterans in Illinois — ...
World War II veteran Russell L. Scott, comic book hero. Well, sure, why not? The late Scott, a B-25 tail gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps who was held as a prisoner of war, certainly had a story to ...
Col. Michael Manion, then the 55th Wing commander, talks with World War II veteran Gail Farrell of Bellevue during a 2018 ceremony honoring Farrell at Offutt Air Force Base. Farrell, survived 21 ...
Sgt. Cruz Coyazo is coming home after more than 76 years. The Redlands native was a tail gunner on a B-26 Marauder during World War II when his plane was shot down in a burst of flames during a ...
Tail gunner Cruz Coyazo, the youngest of eight siblings, was 24 when his B-26 Marauder was shot down over Germany during World War II. On March 2, 1945, his parents, who mostly spoke Spanish, received ...
Sgt. Cruz Coyazo is coming home after more than 76 years. The Redlands native was a tail gunner on a B-26 Marauder during World War II when his plane was shot down in a burst of flames during a ...
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