Friday, September 25 2009 10:57 PM EDT2009-09-26 03:57:33 GMT
Christmas is a special time for most of us, but for Tim Graves, the Christmas of 1944, when he almost lost his life, is the one he remembers most. More >>
Friday, September 4 2009 10:59 PM EDT2009-09-05 03:59:09 GMT
Percy Werner arrived in France in July of 1944, less than a month after D-day. Werner's first job was to clear the roads of mines so our troops could advance.More >>
Friday, July 24 2009 10:31 PM EDT2009-07-25 03:31:19 GMT
Henry "Hap" Pummer has been flying planes for the past 66 years. At the age of 87, he may well be the only World War II P-38 pilot still flying with a current license.More >>
Friday, July 17 2009 11:48 PM EDT2009-07-18 04:48:57 GMT
During World War II Bill Snow was a "submariner" aboard the legendary U.S.S. Flasher, which had destroyed a record hundred thousand plus tons of Japanese shipping in the south pacific.More >>
Friday, July 10 2009 10:34 PM EDT2009-07-11 03:34:45 GMT
No one has sacrificed more than the men and women who have fought for our freedom. Such a man is Colonel Ed Holley, who, even after retirement has remained an Air Force legend. More >>
Friday, June 26 2009 10:09 PM EDT2009-06-27 03:09:22 GMT
Although Welby Edwards was already involved in top secret operations for Lockhead Aircraft, in 1941 he volunteered for the U.S. Aircorps, where he went into more top secret operations.More >>
Friday, June 19 2009 10:30 PM EDT2009-06-20 03:30:50 GMT
Bill Pate was only sixteen when he joined the Marines in 1943 with two of his best friends. By the time he was seventeen, Pate was fighting aboard the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. San Jacinto in the South Pacific. More >>
Friday, June 12 2009 11:05 PM EDT2009-06-13 04:05:53 GMT
Flying in helicopters was a childhood dream come true for John Whitten, but he never imagined that his dream would become a "nightmare" in the Persian Gulf.More >>
Friday, May 15 2009 10:44 PM EDT2009-05-16 03:44:29 GMT
For over 60 years, C.A. Marshall has carried around a tiny yellowed newspaper article about the submarine service in World War II. But the newspaper clip only tells a bit of what Marshall saw firsthand on a submarine tender.More >>
Friday, May 8 2009 10:03 PM EDT2009-05-09 03:03:44 GMT
Sam Hopkins arrived in Vietnam in 1967 at the peak of fighting. As an Army Chaplain, he held memorial services for the many soldiers killed there and regularly visited 42 separate locations where our armed forces were staioned. He often missed death only by seconds.More >>
Friday, April 24 2009 11:26 PM EDT2009-04-25 04:26:39 GMT
Price Arendondo is Director of The Hispanic Business Services Offices at the Tyler Chamber of Commerce, which, as he puts it, helps people "realize their dreams." But in 1966, as an eighteen year old kid from West Texas, joining the Army was more duty than dream.More >>
Friday, April 24 2009 10:13 PM EDT2009-04-25 03:13:45 GMT
In 1967, a group of combat-experienced fighter pilot volunteers were brought together in south Vietnam to form a top secret squadron with a now-famous call sign "Misty". Rex Morris was one of that elite group.More >>
Friday, April 17 2009 10:48 PM EDT2009-04-18 03:48:43 GMT
As a soldier in World War II, it was "kill or be killed' for Tom Shafer, but the many lives he saved during a German attack is what he remembers best.More >>
Friday, April 3 2009 10:56 PM EDT2009-04-04 03:56:11 GMT
Prior to the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, no U.S. Military pilots had been African American. Sam Garrison was not only one of the original Tuskegee Airmen to distinguish himself in war, he was the youngest.More >>
Friday, March 13 2009 10:32 PM EDT2009-03-14 02:32:58 GMT
Three fourths of the B-24 crews in Charley Duecker's group had been shot down by the time WWII ended, but in spite of near misses, Duecker made it through alive.More >>
J.P. Parker says he's already seen much of Europe. The only problem was that it wasn't on a sightseeing trip. It was during WWII, walking across entire countries and fighting all the way.More >>
During WW II, young American women were encouraged to write our soldiers overseas to keep up their morale. It is a story of love and war in this "Freedom Fighters." More >>
Bill Redford rarely talks about his experiences in World War Two. The memories are just too painful, but Redford has shared those memories with KLTV 7's Joan Hallmark.More >>
Around Tyler, L.G. Smith may be known to many as football great Earl Campbell's father-in-law, but in 1952 Smith was a young soldier fighting for his country in Korea.More >>
