Jan 12 2021
Fort Collins resident Bill Powell was a B-24 bomber pilot in WWII. When he arrived in Europe after training, Bill and his crew began flying missions out of Italy. He was now on his 10th mission and everything seemed to be going smooth. After dropping their bombs on the rail yards in Munich, the formation …
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Dec 01 2020
Dwayne Webster wanted to leave school and join the Navy. Being 17, he would need his parents’ permission. His father signed the enlistment papers, a decision that would haunt him the rest of his life. Dwayne enlisted on December 7, 1940. One year to the day he enlisted, December 7, 1941, Dwayne along with 1176 …
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Nov 03 2020
Bob Loner left a carefree childhood to go off to a highly structured high school to study to become a priest. After his senior year, he realized the priesthood wasn’t for him and he scrambled to get into a college to avoid the draft. Bob feels very fortunate in this turn of events as he …
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Oct 06 2020
Doug Enders had a front-row seat to and took part in, some major historical events of the 20th Century. Doug enlisted in the Marines before America’s involvement in World War II. This took him to an assignment in Iceland and he was there when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Shortly after, he was sent back to …
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Sep 01 2020
I can’t imagine what conditions are like inside a tank, particularly during an attack. Even more so, I can only imagine what it would be like inside a tank in the hot and steamy environment of Vietnam. Clyde Brewer II of Windsor experienced it firsthand. After Army basic training, Clyde was assigned to the tanks. …
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Jul 07 2020
Norm Oliphant wanted to be an artist and told his dad so. His dad’s response was, “You’ll starve to death.” He wasn’t being unsupportive of his son’s dream, just practical as it was the Depression and no one had money for art. Soon another major event came along that made Norm once again have to …
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Nov 20 2018
Mary Babnick Brown was an American woman who donated her long blond hair to be used as crosshairs in Norden bombsights in WW II. Brown was a Coloradan and the child of Slovenian immigrants. She left elementary school at the age of 12, to help support her family as a servant for $5/week. When she …
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