by Commander | May 10, 2020 | Living Histories
Vietnam Veteran Series – The Battle of Dai Do Joe Sansosti left Brevard High School at 18 to join the Marines. “My daddy told my brother, ‘that dummy doesn’t even know there’s a war going on,” he chuckled. “I just wanted to do something different.” He arrived in...
by Commander | May 10, 2020 | Living Histories
Dorothy Managan’s story: “I was born on January 5, 1923, in Flushing, New York, and grew up there. World War II was going on in Europe when I was in high school. I graduated in 1941 and went into the three-year hospital program for nursing to get my R.N. at the...
by Commander | May 10, 2020 | Living Histories
Gattis Ervin Allen (known as G.E.) was born on May 1, 1911, in the town of Marshall (Madison County), North Carolina. He passed away in 1997. Like many of our fathers, my daddy never talked to me about his service in the Pacific in WWII, and I wasn’t smart...
by Commander | May 1, 2020 | Living Histories
John, standing, third from left with his Coast Guard buddies John was in the Coast Guard before and during World War II. When the war started, he was based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His wife-to-be, Laurel Crawford lived in Jacksonville, Florida. They met when John’s...
by Commander | Apr 27, 2020 | Living Histories
Submitted by Carl Burkhart[adapted from ‘The Coast Guard at War’ by Alex Larzelere] Smoke streamed from an Air Force F-105 Thunderchief as it flew south toward the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam. It was the afternoon of 1 July 1968 when its...
