For those of you that enjoy air conditioning in the humid heat of the Deep South, you have a particular family buried in the Milton...

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...

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...

What is society's view on "public show of affection" is somewhat different today than it was in WWII. One of our US Navy aviation cadets...

Both Milton and Pensacola maintained "off limits" list of establishments throughout WWII. The legislative power to restrict military...