Written by Brock Cornell Gold Star Wife and VBC Member Becky Nyren shared this extraordinary essay written by high school senior Brock Cornell. Brock had played in the annual Gold Star football games, where players wear the names of the fallen on their uniforms. Here is Becky's description: Brock Cornell, a Senior standout at
Bockscar Crew photographed on August 9, 1945, at Tinian Naval Base the day it dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Standing from left: Maj. Charles Sweeney, Lt. Charles Albury, Lt. Fred Olivi, Capt. Kermit Beahan, Capt. James Van Pelt, and Lt. Jacob Beser. Kneeling from left: Staff Sgt. John Kuharek, Sgt. Abe Spitzer, Sgt.
Japanese children, seeing a Marine for the first time, eagerly reach for chocolates offered them by SSgt Henry A. Weaver, III. (National Archives) By Morton Stith I worked as a Bomb Disposal Marine, a part of World War II that seems to have been wiped from history. Our mission was to neutralize
By Daria Sommers Lisa Rogak’s new book Propaganda Girls: the Secret War of the Women in the OSS brings to light the clandestine roles played by a select group of American women who served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Their job was to psych out the enemy through information
Written by Todd DePastino In a special livestream with the Explorer Vessel Nautilus crew of the Ocean Exploration Trust, we heard about the crew's recent deep-sea discovery of the long-lost bow of the USS New Orleans (CA-32) in the waters of Iron Bottom Sound off Guadalcanal. This remarkable find sheds new light on a dramatic
Ila Cole, Navy WAVE, San Francisco I was a Specialist V, 2nd Class, Transport Airman, stationed in San Francisco in 1945. Essentially, I was an airline stewardess. We flew C-54 Skymasters (except in the Navy, we called them R-5Ds) between Moffett Field, California and Honolulu. Sometimes, we flew the Martin Mars aircraft, which was
