In the media
Red Deer Advocate
Featured in the Red Deer Advocate in preparation for the upcoming memorial ceremony to be conducted for P/O David Merry and his pupil LAC George Conway. The story was featured both on the website of [Read more]
Articles by Lars McKie
Articles
The Doolittle raid
Shortly after 8am in the morning of 18 April 1942 all 16 of Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25 Mitchell bombers successfully take off from the carrier deck of USS Hornet (CV-8). Due to the risk of being [Read more]
Cyril Devaux
Crash of Oxford X6734
On 3 May 1944 LAC Cyril Devaux takes his first familiarization flight on the Cessna Crane type with instructor F/O Larsen as 1st Pilot. Three flights entered in his log book for 7, 8 and [Read more]
Articles
Tribute, respect and Ross Stewart
At present the Log Book is with Nick’s sister Simonne at the Rockville Hub awaiting its next appointment. On 22 March the book was treated with an excursion paying respect at the Arlington National Cemetery [Read more]
Signees
Mrs Doris Howard neé Gardner
Doris Howard performed the duties of a 1st and 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army Nurse Corps during WWII. On April 28, 1945, the hospital ship on which she served was struck by a Kamikaze [Read more]
Signees
Kazuo Odachi
Kazuo Odachi was born on 11 December, 1926 in a country village not far from Tokyo called Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi’s graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan’s occupation of China. Within a few years, Odachi [Read more]
Obituaries
DAVID CRAIG 1925 – 2021
It was with great sadness we received news of Mr David Craig’s recent passing from his daughter. It has taken several attempts to describe this loss that seemed to come too soon even at the [Read more]
Articles
7 December 1941 – Pearl Harbor, 80 years ago
This date was by President Roosevelt referred to as “a date that will live in infamy” in his speech delivered to Congress on 8 December 1941 asking to declare a state of war against the [Read more]
Veterans Breakfast Club
VBC Veterans Day “Vet-A-Thon” 2021
Project webmaster and researcher Lars McKie made an appearance on the 2021 Veterans Day “Vet-A-Thon” hosted by the Veterans Breakfast Club. This was a 24 hr non-stop live broadcast with 1 hour segments where The [Read more]
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Mr Louis Graziano French Legion d’honneur Ceremony
Master Sergeant Louis C. Graziano’s Legion d’honneur presentation will be held at the First United Methodist Church Family Life Center, 323 Church St. in Thomson Georgia this Friday, 17th of September, at 1PM. Mr Graziano [Read more]