We Remember
Ira Schab, Pearl Harbor survivor, passes
Ira Schab, 105: originally a tuba player in the USS Dobbin’s band, died Saturday. The 21-year old (born July 4, 1920) Mr. Schab expected a quiet Sunday morning. One of his two younger brothers, assigned to a nearby Naval radio station, was coming to visit. Schab had just showered and donned a clean uniform when […]
Valor Friday
I’ve talked about some missions where the bulk of the men earned a valor award. Usually this is for some particularly daring mission, usually by a small group. For example, George Glober‘s entire 10-man B-17 crew received the Distinguished Service Cross for a daring photo reconnaissance mission over the enemy-held Wake Island in 1942. In […]
Valor Friday
Last week I talked a bit about fighter aces. One category of ace that is confined to the First World War is that of balloon ace (aka balloon buster). These are the pilots who took out enemy observation balloons. As with the other categories of ace, a balloon ace shot down at least five enemy […]
Navy successfully completes Arizona Project
A bit late for December 7. The Navy has been working on a project to extend the lifespan of the USS Arizona Monument. The Navy, in coordination with the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, successfully completed the removal of significant portions of two World War II-era mooring platforms from the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, […]
Royce Williams may get MoH
This coming year’s National Defense Authorization Act has an authorization within it to upgrade Royce Williams’ Navy Cross to the MoH for his one-man battle with several Soviet MiGs during the Korean War. I wrote about him, back here. Since that original article, his Silver Star has been upgraded to a Navy Cross. Were Captain […]
Two Returned Home
Long Wait Finally Over: World War II Airman Returns Home Military.com | By Kevin Damask Bonnie McClure was just a young girl when her uncle, Clifford Keeney, an Army Airman fighting in World War II, was shot down in Germany while on a mission in 1944. Keeney was listed as killed in action, and he […]
A Bit More WWII
I was gratified to find some mainstream sites with articles on Pearl Harbor – it seems (like with 9-11) that some years significant anniversaries get ignored. One significant milestone: No Pearl Harbor survivors were able to attend today’s ceremony there. Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center […]
A brief reminder
Today marks the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Many of us remember the Nine-Eleven attack on September 11, 2001. It killed 2,977 people, primarily because so many workers were trapped in the World Trade Center buildings. Pearl Harbor saw 2,403 killed, the vast majority of whom (2, 000+) […]
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