Signees

Today The Log Book contains over 200 signatures from veterans and witnesses of this horrific conflict. Each signature represents a direct link to past and the signer’s individual story which we here try to present in the most respectful and honorable manner attempting to preserve the history and ensure future generations can learn and maintain the legacy others sacrificed so much to give us.

Signees

David Tejada

6 January 2018 Nick Devaux 0

DAVID TEJADA – 12th Signal Company, Philippine Scouts. Survivor of the POW Bataan Death March and Camp O’Donnell. On 26 July 1941, the combined defense forces in the Philippines were organized into the US Army [Read more]

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Dame Vera Lynn

4 January 2018 Nick Devaux 0

Dame Vera Lynn OBE, English singer, songwriter and actress awarded a British War Medal 1939–1945 and the Burma Star. Known as “the Forces’ Sweetheart”, who toured Egypt, India, and Japanese occupied Burma as part of [Read more]

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Regine Halm

15 November 2017 Nick Devaux 0

Ms. REGINE HALM – wife of Günter Halm, German infantryman; personally honored by General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel with the Knight’s Cross for his bravery in El Alamein. I first learned about Günter Halm from [Read more]

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Hildegard Joseph

27 October 2017 Nick Devaux 0

HILDEGARD AUGUSTE JOSEPH nee LACKMANN – German civilian, born in 1928 in Recklinghausen, Westphalia, Germany. In accordance with Hitler’s decree all young people had to work for the Reich for 1 year. In July 1943, [Read more]

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Victor Gregg

9 October 2017 Nick Devaux 0

Many of the veterans we encounter have experienced incomprehensible staggering brutality during parts of WWII. Victor Gregg joined the Rifle Brigade in 1937. He was therefore dragged through the entire 2,000 plus days of the [Read more]

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Marvin Strombo

1 September 2017 Nick Devaux 0

MARVIN STROMBO – 2nd Marines Div, 6th Regimental Scouts and Snipers, Veteran of Tarawa, Tinian and Saipan. Marvin Strombo was born was born into a Montana ranching family; one of seven children. He graduated from [Read more]

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Haynes Cyril

24 August 2017 Nick Devaux 0

HAYNES CYRIL – Windward Islands Battalion. A 2015 BBC article by Claire Brennan entitled “Soldiers of the Caribbean: Britain’s forgotten war heroes” states: “Some 10,000 left their families and homes to join the British armed [Read more]

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Arthur Pendleton

28 July 2017 Nick Devaux 0

ARTHUR PENDLETON – Corporal, 1st Marine Division (Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Division) On 2 January 1942, at age 20, Arthur found himself among a small group of recruits headed to Paris Island, South Carolina, [Read more]