. . Alex Dyga of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a Pearl Harbor survivor. He joined the Army just months prior to the Japanese attack on the Islands. When the attack came, Alex was stationed on Hawaii as a “mule skinner.” He would serve the entire war on Hawaii. At 92, Alex is
. . Bill Duffy Bill Duffy was an army war correspondent during WWII. He covered war crimes trials in Manila. Bill Duffy - WWII | VBC Full Stories from Veterans Breakfast Club on Vimeo.
. . Barbara Duffy Barbara Duffy served as a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. She had hardly ever ventured more than 50 miles from her home in Beverly, Mass., but in 1943, she shipped around the world to the Pacific to tend to the wounded
. . Gerard Driscoll During World War II, Gerard Driscoll tried to join the navy when he was sixteen. His effort to join was thwarted when the recruiter discovered that Gerard had changed the date on his birth certificate. Undaunted in his efforts to be at sea during the war,
. . Victor DiCarlo World War II infantryman Victor DiCarlo got into the war late, but he packed much action in his four months of combat in Europe. He joined the 80th Infantry Division in January, 1945 long after the division had hit the beach on D+51. They were in
. . Al DeFazio Al DeFazio was drafted into the US Army in February 1943 where he served with the 36th Infantry Division. He fought in Africa and Italy as an infantryman and was wounded in combat, earning himself a Bronze Star before leaving the Army in 1946. missing
