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UNIQUE HISTORY OF PENSACOLA
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Dec 6, 20203 min read
366. Pensacola's First WWII Casualty
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...
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Jan 24, 20192 min read
187. Pensacolian's Husband Killed in South Pacific 1944
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...
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Jan 23, 20191 min read
182. Pensacola Voting Politics During WWII
The issue of Negroes voting in the Florida primaries began to dominate the news headlines during WWII. The main issue concerning Negroes...
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Jan 21, 20192 min read
180. Pensacolian's Husband Protects Bougainville Beachhead 1943
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...
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