John Dollar looks out his office window while reminiscing about the Korean War.
In the case of Korea, the conflict that took 54,000 American lives saved the South from falling to the Communists.
Originally published June 25, 2000
By Jeff Decker
The Green Bay News-Chronicle
"Old Soldiers Never Die"
Gen. Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was one of most prominent United States military figures of the first half of the twentieth century.
In World War I he served as chief of staff of the Forty-second Infantry (Rainbow) Division and later commanded one of its brigades. He was twice wounded and received many decorations for bravery.
In April of 1943, at the age of 18 my father, Franklin Thomas Wike, left his job as a soda jerk at a local drug store in Lebanon, PA and joined the Army. I have no idea what his expectations or fears were the day he was inducted into the Army, but the price he would pay, for our freedom would have a major effect on his life, as well as the lives of many others.
In 1942 a young John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) entered the United States Navy eager to see action in World War II.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), playwright, diplomat, wife of Time-Life, Inc., publisher Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967), and a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut, knew the Kennedy family well. She sent the young naval officer a good luck coin that had originally belonged to her mother. Kennedy thanked Luce for her thoughtfulness and promised to clip the coin to his military identification tags.
One of the military innovations of World War I was the emergence of the armored tank. George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945), was the first American officer assigned to the fledgling United States Tank Corps in 1917.
He continued to champion the tank in the interwar years when the money-short army largely neglected the corps.
by George G. King
Spanish-American War
was declared by Congress on April 25, 1898.
This is a collection of letters written home by George King, an American soldier who served in the Puerto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American War. At the outbreak of the War, King volunteered in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry formed in Concord, Massachusetts.
Civil War Memories
of
John Herbert Claiborne, 1828-1905.
World War II Era
Being Questioned by the FBI
By Fannie Prothro nee Terry
My family was living in Louisiana during WW II. Our sons, R.D. (Randolph Davis Prothro) and Jimmy (James Warren Prothro) went in the Army. R.D.'s daughter, Sarah Jane stayed with us for many months until the invasion of Germany during World War II while R.D. was in England and Sarah, his wife, was working in the civil service.
Submitted by: Randy Graham © July 2003 Roseville, CA
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Coming Home
By Bill Hawksford
Following is an excerpt from the book titled,
The Silly Buggers by Bill Hawksford.