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Today’s feature is from The Baton Rouge Advocate newspaper about a young man, Leon Standifer, going to war in 1942.  As Professor Standifer states, “Everybody in the community expected men to go and fight, because we were in a war we could lose. I don’t know whether I wanted to go or not. I didn’t…

Koga’s Zero By Jim Reardon “In April 1942 thirty-six Zeros attacking a British naval base at Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), were met by about sixty Royal Air Force aircraft of mixed types, many of them obsolete. Twenty-seven of the RAF planes went down: fifteen Hawker Hurricanes (of Battle of Britain fame), eight Fairey Swordfish,…

My parents scoffed, but I knew my college degree in geology would come in handy one day. It was during basic training, at Sheppard Field, Texas, and I was pulling KP duty. When the sergeant asked me what I did in civilian life, I proudly announced that I was a geologist. “Good. I’m looking for…

Military Heroes – U. S. Army Spc. 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr. President Barack Obama has announced that Spc. 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr., an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division, will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor May 16 for his actions during the Vietnam War. For the article as well as pictures of…
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