Staff Sgt. Ruben Rivers was part of Company A, attached to the 104th Infantry in the attack and capture of Vic-sur-Seille. The next day, the force took Chateau-Salins in a four-hour fight in the season's first snowstorm, then continued east toward Morville-les-Vic. The battalion commander was wounded and evacuated, and a 104th task-force commander had […]
1SG. Joseph E. Wilson, Sr., USA-Ret-Dec., 1925-2003, departed this world on March 11, 2003. He was born on April 23, 1925 in Milwaukee, WI to Augustus and Lula Wilson. At the age of nine, he lost his father to tuberculosis. His mother remarried John Bailey and took him to Gary, IN. He enlisted in the […]
Joseph Anthony Tates, a retired Social Security Administration section chief and a decorated Army veteran cited for his "inspirational courage" while fighting in World War II, died of cancer Tuesday (December 13, 2005) at his Edmondson Village home. He was 84. Born in Baltimore and raised on Brune Street, one was one of sixteen children […]
Johnnie Stevens was born on November 19, 1920 in Georgia, to Obie Long and Johnnie Stevens Sr. The grandson of a slave, he attended Dover T. Howard High School in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined the United States Army when he was 22 where he became the country's first black tank commander, serving for three years […]
Following is the text of the Obituary presented at Sgt. Reedy's memorial service held on Wednesday, May 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Freddie C. Reedy was born on July 14, 1919, in Duncanville, Alabama, to the union of Mr. Edward and Mrs. Annie Reedy. He joined A.M.E. Zion Methodist Church at an early age. […]
Christopher Paul Navarre Sr. (Papa, Pop, Pops), long-term resident of DuPont Washington since 1959, peacefully passed away on June 24, 2017 at the full age of 97. Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, one of nine siblings, he married Bernice Breaux in 1943 before deploying to the European theater in World War II and the Korean conflict. […]
George McConnell (also known as "E.G." or "Mack"), was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York to Jamaican immigrant parents, Vernon George and Katherine (Palmer) McConnell on September 28, 1925. He was the younger of two children. In 1942, George eagerly volunteered and joined the United States Army at only sixteen years old to fight in […]