Born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma, Captain Jack Scheffel enlisted in the army in order to continue his family’s strong tradition of military service. He soon learned that, in war, every decision you make can literally mean the difference between life
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In a costly battle, U.S. forces assault Peleliu in the Palau Islands to diminish its potential threat to their future invasions in the Pacific.
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The son of Japanese immigrants, Army Medic Jimmie Kanaya joined the U.S. Army in 1941. Although his family was relocated to an internment camp after?the attack on Pearl?Harbor?and he himself was treated as an enemy for some time, he eventually volunt
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Raised in Queens, Navy Seaman 1st Class Jack Yusen enlisted in the navy in 1943. In 1944, his ship was sunk off the coast of the Philippines, but he managed to survive the harrowing ordeal.
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U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Werner was born in Austria in 1920 to a wealthy jewish family. In 1939 he fled Austria to escape Nazi persecution and soon joined the U.S. Army so he could help fight Hitler.
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First Lieutenant Shelby Westbrook?enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and joined the nation’s first all-black air corps shortly after Pearl Harbor.?There he not only fought the enemy abroad, but worked hard to set an example for other African Americans st
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