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...

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

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...

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

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...

Sammie Ingraham was born on September 10, 1922 to the union of Sam and Callie Ingraham in Century, Escambia County, Florida. His father...

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...

In 1942, the Marine Corps decided to experiment with the use of dogs in combat situations. The new unit on Guam consisted of sixty dogs,...

Pensacolian Milton Oliver Hardy was the son of Robert Morgan Hardy and Lula Belle Pyburn. Milton enlisted in the USMC prior to WWII and...

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....

On March 2, 1945, an Army Air Corps Lt. Colonel was acquitted by a military court of the charge of "voluntary manslaughter" in China's...

To recapture the city of Manila in the Philippines, the US Sixth Army landed on the beaches of Lingayen Gulf on January 9, 1945. Meeting...

The Munda airfield on the island of New Georgia was fought over by more Pensacolians that most people knew. Another hometown boy was Cpl....

One of several Pensacolians killed in New Guinea was AMM 2nd Class Joseph Edward Brown Jr. of Route #4, Pensacola. He was the son of...

On the morning of May 8, 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea, the USS Lexington was attacked by a Japanese airstrike. During the...

In the small town of Ridgeway, Missouri, a farmer and his wife gave birth to two sons. Frank Turner Rinehart and Ola May Sanders had nine...