https://youtu.be/dv4XzbnDdeA Wendell Freeland was a member of the famed group of African American World War II flyers we now call the Tuskegee Airmen. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1943 as a student at Howard University. A bright and ambitious student who grew up in a poor, segregated neighborhood in Baltimore, Wendell entered
https://youtu.be/3nGY8IrMDoQ Toronto history teacher extraordinaire introduced the Veterans Breakfast Club to Jim Parks in Veterans Day, 2022. Jim is a 98-year-old Canadian WWII Veteran who joined the Canadian Army at age 15 and served through the end for the war. Jim grew up in hardscrabble Winnipeg, Manitoba, during the Great Depression, and joined
https://youtu.be/Toiwn3MFAxk U.S. Army veteran Darrell Utt shares his story of service with the VBC's Veterans History Project. Interviewed by Scott Masters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktVioyVAU24 Louis R. Woods served in the U.S. Navy in the Armed Guard in World War II. His family recently discovered this interview, conducted by Louis's grandson circa 1999. In the interview, Louis discusses Boot Camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Armed Guard School at Gulport, Mississippi, and then sea duty aboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Imrfs_olo Army veteran Terri Swank tells her story for the VBC Veterans History Project. Interviewed by Lawrence Woods.
