James Lewis Day

James Lewis Day

12 May, 1945 Sugar Loaf Hill, Okinawa Japanese defenders, nearly an entire regiment, have fortified their crucial position on a small hill. The hill looked unassuming, but it was honeycombed with concrete reverse slope positions holding machine gun and artillery...
Robert Emmett Fletcher Jr.

Robert Emmett Fletcher Jr.

In 1942, a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government forced Japanese immigrants and Americans of Japanese descent to report to barbed-wire camps. Many lost their homes to thieves or bank foreclosures. A state agricultural inspector, Fletcher...
Carmen Contreras-Bozak

Carmen Contreras-Bozak

In 1942, during the height of World War II, Carmen Contreras-Bozak made history by enlisting in the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), which was later renamed the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). Her enlistment made her the first Hispanic American...
First Lieutenant John R. Fox

First Lieutenant John R. Fox

0400 hours, 26 December 1944. The German Army mounts an ambitious offensive called “Operation Winter Storm.” With a relentless assault in Northern Italy, they force the 92nd US Infantry Division to pull back. Although most of the U.S. infantry forces have...