. . Charles Kelley Charles E. Kelley–“Chuck”–grew up as a devout Catholic kid in the small, hilly community of Elliot in Pittsburgh’s West End area. He was a junior in high school when he heard news on a neighbor’s radio about Pearl Harbor. Chuck knew that it was a matter of
. . Norman Kanel Norman T. Kanel was one of the first veterans to join our breakfasts in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in 2009. An amateur actor after the war, Norm knew how to tell a story and hold a room captive, but he didn’t need to infuse any
. . Harlan Jarvis flew 73 combat missions as an engineer gunner on the “Mad Russian,” a B-26 Marauder medium bomber in the 9th Air Force, 386th Bombardment Group, 553rd Bombardment Squadron in Europe. The six-man crew had trained for skip bombing missions in North Africa, an experimental technique where planes
. . Robert Hurt Bob Hurt’s administrative career in the Army Air Corp started as a result of returning home late from a night out during basic training at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana. As required, he was standing in line to receive the wrath of the 1st
. . Leonard Heisey Leonard Heisey served with the US Army Air Corps during WWII. missing video/audio Leonard C. Heisey, 89, of Providence Point, formerly Mt. Lebanon, went to be with the Lord Sunday, June 29, 2014. Leonard was born Aug. 15, 1924, in Austin, Minn., to the late
. . Harold Hall During WWII, Harold Hall went from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Tech (now called Carnegie Mellon University) to flying long-haul Army Air Corps transport planes throughout Alaska, Canada, and the northern United States. It wasn’t exciting duty, Harold recalls, but it was, nonetheless, important to the overall war effort.
