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...

As so often happened during WWII, one of our Tate High School students met and married a young aviator that caught her eye in his spiffy...

The issue of Negroes voting in the Florida primaries began to dominate the news headlines during WWII. The main issue concerning Negroes...

Charles Lyman Penner was born in Brunswick, Maryland on February 1, 1918 to the union of Charles W. and Italene Penner. By 1940, he had...

Charles Clarke McDonald was born on November 15, 1901 in Illinois and after his preliminary education he decided to make the Navy his...

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

Corporal Billie Wade Rayburn was born on June 24, 1925 in Jay, Florida and was raised by his grandparents William Franklin Rayburn and...

Seaman 1st Class Burnice Rufus Silcox was born on April 27, 1922 in Bratt, Florida. He was the son of Rumley "Rummie" David and Katie...

Lt. Hartwell Riley Howington was born April 17, 1919, the son of Reverend Arthur Fletcher Howington and Cora Cornelia Kelly. He graduated...

Lt. Jesse F. Arnold, age 23, landed with his US Army regiment on the island of Leyte in the Philippines in October 1944. The landing by...

One of their first attempts at prevention was the destruction of the mosquito itself by draining swamps and any other breeding ground...

Prior to the war, little was known about many of the islands in the South Pacific. One of the factors that contributed so much to our...

For such a small settlement as Bagdad, Florida, this lumber town contributed more than their fair share to the war effort in WWII....

Donald Lee Simpson was born on March 18, 1921 in Bagdad, Florida, the son of the widow Anna Fitzgerald and her late husband Charles Henry...

2Lt. Raymond Simmons Hobbs was born on November 16, 1917 to the union of Raymond Bruitt Hobbs and Leslie Hessie Simmons. His father...

Miss Rose Ethel Panowski was determined to follow the young men of Santa Rosa County into the armed forces and do her duty. Patriotism...

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

Bernie Eugene Kimmons was born in Bluff Springs in Escambia County, Florida on March 17, 1918. He was the son of Jerry L. Kimmons and...

On October 17, 1944, a 28-year old sailor by the name of Russell D. Dils from Ohio was approached by Pensacola Police Officer L. W....

Leonard Curtis Barlow was born on May 12, 1920, the son of Loyd H. Barlow and Frances Reid. His father supported his large family as a...