Your Life Remembered
Braniff Airways dipped its wings recently in a 20th anniversary tribute to the young women who have served as flight hostesses since the first Braniff DC-2 airplanes using air hostesses inagurated new "luxury" air service […]
S-Sgt. Marion E. Bordwell, 37, radio operator on a B-29 based on Saipan, was reported missing in action April 2, the War Department has notified his wife, Mrs. Eunice I. Bordwell, 1917 Wright. Entering the […]
Originally from Finland, he entered service in Chicago and was assigned to Company B, 132nd Infantry, 33rd Division with the Illinois Army National Guard during WWI. His citation for the Medal of Honor reads, "While […]
Edward C. Allworth, Captain 60th Infantry. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of dury in action with the enemy at Clery-le-Petit, France, November 5, 1918. While his company was crossing the […]
Valda: He didn’t want a boy. Mother always said that when Bobbie turned out to be a girl they both said they wanted the first one to be a boy. When Bobbie turned out to […]
A Letter to the Illustrious and Very Reverend Don Virginio Cesarini Rome 1623 I have never understood, Your Excellency, why it is that every one of the studies I have published in order to please […]