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Major Dewayne Rudd, USAF, U-2 Reconnaissance Pilot, B-2 Test Pilot
Dewayne Rudd joined the U.S. Air Force with a dream of one day becoming an astronaut and flying to space. Instead he became a versatile pilot the mil…
3 years ago
PFC Lockered 'Bud' Gahs, U.S. Army, World War II
Lockered "Bud" Gahs was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. In late 1944, he deployed to France with the 42nd Infantry Division, which wa…
3 years ago
Henry Greenbaum, Holocaust Survivor
Henry Greenbaum was born in Poland in 1928. He was one of nine children. Even before the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, Greenbaum's family sensed t…
3 years, 1 month ago
Staff Sgt. Matt Cable, Montana Air National Guard, Invictus Games Champion
Matt Cable joined the Montana National Guard shortly after graduating from high school because he just wanted to move on with his life. Little did he…
3 years, 1 month ago
TSgt Richard Hamilton, U.S. Army Air Corps, WWII, POW
Richard Hamilton was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942. He was trained as a radio man on a B-17 bomber crew. After arriving in England, he…
3 years, 1 month ago
PO2 John Cahill, U.S. Navy, Vietnam
When John Cahill graduated from high school, college was not an option for him. He knew that meant he would soon be drafted. So he decided to enlist,…
3 years, 1 month ago
AD3 Al Hansen, U.S. Navy, World War II
Al Hansen joined the U.S. Navy when he was 16 years old, both to serve his country and to help his mother keep a roof over her head. Initially traine…
3 years, 1 month ago
TSgt August O'Niell, USAF, Afghanistan, Invictus Games Champion
Both of August O'Niell's parents served in the U.S. Air Force, and he followed suit thinking of a few years of service would pay for his college educ…
3 years, 2 months ago
George Elliott, U.S. Army National Guard, Korea
George Elliott joined the U.S. Army National Guard when he was just sixteen because he told recruiters he was seventeen. Before turning twenty, Ellio…
3 years, 2 months ago
COL Ludwig Faistenhammer, U.S. Army, WWII, Korea, Vietnam
Ludwig Faistenhammer was born in Germany but his family moved to the U.S. before the Nazis rose to power. After the U.S. entered World War II, he joi…
3 years, 2 months ago