by Commander | Mar 13, 2022
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor Guest Speaker: James M. Scott Date: Wednesday May 18, 2022 Time: 2:00pm Location: Transylvania County Library, Rogow Room 212 South Gaston Street, Brevard NC Author James M. Scott, an...
by Commander | Sep 2, 2020 | Living Histories
Honoring veterans, educating the public, and preserving historical artifacts are the reasons why Emmett Casciato founded the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas four years ago. These three principles from the museum’s mission statement caught the attention of...
by Commander | Jul 6, 2020 | Living Histories
Sandy Groendyke joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 Sandy Groendyke joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and served as a B-17 Bomber pilot in Europe. After his plane was hit and was forced to land, he was captured and held in a German prison camp for nine...
by Commander | Jun 15, 2020 | Living Histories
GEORGE By Carl Burkhart George was thirty-seven years old when he went to prison. But that was okay…it meant that he was probably coming home. The prison’s name was Stalag 12B.A few months before his incarceration, although I was only four years oldI remember looking...
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...
