Today is known as "Pearl Harbor Day," an honor set aside for the men and women killed or wounded during the attack there by Japanese...

Coll Hutcheck "Red" McLean was born on December 30, 1919 in Evansville, Wisconsin to the union of Coll McLean and Anne Hutcheck. His...

Private Ralph Lamar Gilmore was born on September 5, 1925 in Brandenburg, Alabama to the union of David Cleveland Gilmore and Sarah Lydia...

Gwendolyn Eunice Yniestra was born in Pensacola on January 18, 1915 to the union of William Brent Yniestra and Ethel E. Foster. Her...

Leon A. Barron was born in Walnut Hill on July 7, 1014 to the union of James Calhoun Barron and Margaret "Maggie" E. Mayo. His father was...

2Lt. Robert Minns Robertson, Pensacola High Class of 1941 was the son of Herman Sternberg Robertson and Florence May Pilcher. Born in...

Thomas Erie "Buddy" Dubuisson, Pensacola High Class of 1942 was the son of Benjamin A. & Mary E. Dubuisson and brother of Gloria of the...

Hubert Alexander "Smiley" Arnold was born on August 11, 1923 in Pensacola, Florida, the son of Arnold L. Arnold and Rosa Bell Sowell....

Benjamin Franklin Laughton Jr., Pensacola High Class of 1932, was the son of Benjamin F. Sr. and Leola Belle Davis of Bagdad, Florida....

One of the first land battles in the Pacific was on the banks of Alligator Creek on Guadalcanal by the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Marine...

After the islands of Guam, Saipan, and Tinian were secured by the Marines, the US Navy Seabees went into a building frenzy to build their...

One of Pensacola High School's students (Class of 1943) took part in the World War II landing at Hollandia in the New Guinea Campaign on...

Charles Wesley Mankin Jr. was born on June 20, 1922 to the union of Charles W. Mankin Sr. and Elsie Letson. He was a graduate of...

Born in 1925 in St. Augustine, Florida, Walter Adell “Rick” McClellan moved to Pensacola with his parents in 1932. Upon graduation from...

Jack Gifford Ehlerding graduated from Pensacola High School in the Class of 1940. He was born in 1923 in Polk County, Minnesota, the son...

Staff Sergeant Julius Cornelius Nord was born in Indiana in October 1, 1923 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard "Dick" Sweetman. He spent two years...

America’s first “Lone Ranger” was none other than Lee Berriam Powell in the popular Western series in 1937. Following the initial movie,...

Sadly, one adopted Pensacolian never made it to the battles of World War II. Flying at any time was a dangerous profession but during...

When World War II erupted with Japan Pensacolian Jacque “Jack” Warren Eubanks (below) enlisted in the Marine Corps right after graduation...

Following Pearl Harbor James Woodrow Ward reenlisted as a private in the US Army on August 19, 1942 and eventually wound up in the air...