By Bob Smith with Barb Smith In August 1960, The carrier USS Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42), pulled into Livorno (“Leghorn”), Italy, one of the largest and main seaports in the Mediterranean Sea. Three liberty launches left the ship for fleet landing. A storm was approaching. The ship began listing heavily. The winds were ferocious.
From left to right: Michael Archer, Tom Mahoney and their senior drill instructor at Boot Camp Graduation, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California, August 1967. (Michael Archer) By Michael Archer Michael Archer is an author, lecturer, and Vietnam Veteran who served as a radio operator during the 1968 siege of the
Jeff at Freedom Bridge, Seoul, South Korea, November 2006. (Jeffrey Rogers) By Jeffrey Rogers, TSgt, USAF (Ret.) Jeff Rogers served with distinction for over 20 years in the United States Air Force, beginning his career as an Electronic Warfare Systems Specialist at Griffiss AFB, NY and Osan AB, Korea. Since retiring from
Author of The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton By Daria Sommers In 1969, when the North Vietnamese decided to release the first American POWs as a propaganda stunt, they chose Doug Hegdahl to be one of them. They called the twenty-one-year old Navy
By David Nasaw Over one million Black men and women served in a racially segregated military in World War II, separate and unequal. Fighting in every theater across the globe, Black Americans saw the war as an opportunity for advancement. In 1942, the nation’s largest black newspaper, The Pittsburgh Courier, urged readers to embrace
