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Vietnam & Veterans Memorial MO543
DEDICATED TO ALL WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM * * * 1956 - 1975 * * * ALL GAVE SOME * * * SOME GAVE ALL
(BACK): In remembrance of "THE MOVING WALL" which was here August 2006.
St. James Veterans Memorial MO538
FROM THOSE WHO REMEMBER * * * * * * * * * * ARMY AIR FORCE COAST GUARD NAVY MARINES * * * WE REMEMBER * * *
Grayville Veterans Memorial IL458
"Support Our Troops They Guard Our Freedom" It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag. 2003 ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE PEOPLE
WAF Hill CA13
WAF HILL This is the site of the barracks built to house women stationed here without immediate family accompanying them. The first detachment of the Women’s Army Corps (formed in May 1943) arrived at Hamilton Army Air Field in October 1943. The barracks were also used by the civilian pilots of the Women Air Service Pilots (WASP’s) serving the Military Ferry Command. After the Air Force became a separate service in 1947, the Women’s Air Force (WAF’s) moved in and the name changed to WAF HILL. When the Navy took over the base in the 1960’s their wives were housed here. Finally these quarters housed evacuees from Vietnam and Afghanistan pending processing of their asylum applications and relocation to more permanent residences elsewhere in the country.
30th Anniversary of the dedication of Hamilton AFB CA10
Presented to the Officers, Airmen and Civilian Employees of Hamilton Air Force Base by the citizens of Marin County In recognition of their mutual friendly relationship on the30th Anniversary of the dedication of the base May 12, 1965 Marin County Board of Supervisors William A. Cross - Byron W. Leydecker - Ernest N. Kettenhofen - Thomas T. Storer - Peter H. Behr. Chairman
Langley Field: Creating an Air Force WY96
In Dec. 1916, the U.S. Army purchased land four miles north of here to build an airfield to us jointly with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. During World War I, the Army trained aircrews and tested aircraft there. In 1921, Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell led bombing trials from Langley to demonstrate that air power could destroy battleships. On 1 March 1935, Air Corps combat units were realigned nationwide under the GHQ Air Force. Led from Langley by Maj. Gen. Frank Andrews, that combat air command was the forerunner of the Army Air Forces of World War II and marked the first real step toward the U.S. Air Force.
Rudolf Anderson, Jr. TX6068
U.S. Air Force pilot Rudolf Anderson was the only American airman shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Born in 1927 in South Carolina, Anderson joined the military in 1951 and soon began flying reconnaissance missions during the Korean Conflict. Stationed at Laughlin Air Force Base by 1957, he was here when the Cuban Missile Crisis developed in October 1962. On October 27, while piloting a U-2 plane over Cuba to provide surveillance of a medium range ballistic missile site under construction, antiaircraft fire hit his plane, killing him. The Air Force decorated Anderson posthumously and in 2001 renamed Laughlin's operation building Anderson Hall. He is buried in South Carolina.
Laughlin Army Air Field TX6064
With the need to train more pilots for military service during World War II, the U.S. Army established an air field east of Del Rio in 1942. The region's year-round good weather and vast areas of open ground offered near ideal flight training conditions. On July 2 of that year, the Army activated the field as what the local press called a "jaw-shattering title": The Army Air Forces Transition Flying School, Medium Bombardment. Lt. Col. E.W. Suarez oversaw construction of the base, which was accessible by U.S. Highway 90 and by the Southern Pacific rail line. Col. George W. Mundy became the base's commanding officer on December 26, 1942. Earlier in 1942, Del Rio native and Army pilot Lt. Jack Thomas Laughlin died in military action, becoming the first pilot from the community killed in World War II. He was shot down over the Java Sea while flying a B-17. Local citizens and U.S. Congressman Charles L. South petitioned the Army to name the base for Laughlin, which the Army agreed to in 1943. Laghlin's widow and the young daughter he never met attended the field's dedication that year, and Maj. Gen. Gerald C. Brant delivered a dedicatory speech. Instructors at the field trained experienced pilots on the Martin B-26 medium bomber, which was also known as the Marauder, the Widow Maker and the Flying Prostitute. Laughlin pilots went on to fly missions in both the European and Pacific theaters of the war. The Army closed the base at the end of the war but reopened it as Laughlin Air Force Base in 1952.
Nathan Bedford Forrest III, Airman 4E117
Brigadier General N.B. Forrest, III, U.S. Army Air Force, was born in Memphis on April 7,1905, and was the first American General Officer killed in combat against the Nazis during World War II. He died while participating in a B-17 bomber raid on Kiel, Germany, June 13, 1943. A 1928 graduate of West Point, he served as Second Air Force Chief of Staff prior to transfer to the U.S. Eighth Air Force in England. He was the son of Memphians Nathan Bedford Forrest II and Mattie Patton Forrest, and great-grandson of Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In 1949 his body was returned from Germany and reburied in Arlington National Cemetery.
The Truman Little White House FL508
Built in 1890 as quarters for Navy officers, the Little White House later was used by American Presidents William Howard Taft, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Truman used the facility as a vacation home and functioning White House between 1946 and 1952. National legislation was drafted and official government business was conducted daily from the site. Perhaps the most important of these actions occurred on December 5, 1951, when Truman enacted a Civil Rights Executive Order requiring federal contractors to hire minorities. The house is considered the birthplace of the U. S. Department of Defense and the U. S. Air Force as a result of the Key West Accords of 1948. President Eisenhower used the site in 1956 while recuperating from a heart attack. In 1961, the house was the venue for a summit between President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan during the Bay of Pigs incident. Kennedy returned in 1962 after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Secretary of State Colin Powell and foreign leaders held an international summit here in 2001. The Little White House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Display # 11 - 20 of 87 |