The World War II-era B-17G Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed the “Nine-O-Nine,” which was part of the Wings of Freedom tour that visited Henderson, Nevada in April 2019, crashed Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019 at Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport killing seven of the thirteen onboard.
Dr. S. Jay Hazan, 93, a World War II veteran, talks about his arrest during his visit to VA hospital on Friday, Nov. 30. (Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco_
Ed Hall, a WWII veteran who was stationed at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked finally receives his high school diploma — about 75 years late.
Seven Pearl Harbor Survivors tell their stories of the events on December 7, 1941, as Bill McWilliams narrates the attack that Sunday morning.
A special reunion of surviving members of the U.S.S. Nevada wound up on Thursday February 11th at the Nevada State Museum where an exhibit to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the battleship, which was commissioned on March 16, 1916, is on display.
WWII veteran, Americo Benetti recalls his time with the 459th Bombardment Group when he was shot down over Hungary in 1944.
Tom Cameron, son of Pvt. Allan J. Cameron, reflects on his father’s service during WWII from Exercise Tiger and the Normandy invasion to the Battle of the Bulge and freeing a Nazi concentration camp.
Three WWII veterans look back 70 years ago, on May 8, 1945, to Victory in Europe Day and the journeys that took them there.
Joyce Jones and “Clare” Clarendon Hetrick never knew each other over the seven decades that followed “the day in infamy” that thrust the United States into war until Hetrick and his wife moved to the Las Vegas Valley.
While on Utah Beach in Normandy France, Ron Deanne collected a jar of sand to give to Fern Jennings who compiled her husband’s letters in the book “Your Loving Son, Ed.”
