Veterans Speaking

October 25^th, 2014

Armando "Chick" Galella, Pearl Harbor survivor, "Hickham Field" More info ?

Walt Straka, Bataan Death March Survivor. More info ?

Hank Kudzik, WWII Navy USS Nautilus submarine at battle of Midway. More info ?

Col. Ed Shames, WWII Army 101st Airborne "Band of Brothers" D-Day Landing. More info ?

George Hardy, WWII Army Air Corps, Tuskegee Fighter Pilot. Flew 21 Combat Missions in a P51 Mustang over

Germany. More info ?

Frank Miabella, WWII Army. Mistakenly jumped into Marine landing craft and fought at battle of Iwo Jima without combat training. More info ?

Russell Gackenbach, WWII Army Air Corp Navigator on "NECESSARY EVIL", one of three planes used in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. More info ?

James McEachin, Korean combat veteran. More info ?

John Fer, MD, Vietnam Air Force Fighter Pilot. POW 6 yrs Hanoi Hilton. Spent time in same cell with Sen. John McCain. More info ?

Jack Young, Vietnam Navy PBR Patrol Boat River 68-69. Became Navy Seal 70 - 72. More info ?

Brigadier General Steve Ritchie, Vietnam USAF 1972. Capt. Ritchie became the only American pilot in history to down 5 MIG-21 enemy fighter airplanes. (ACE). More info ?

Phillips Casey, Iraq and Afghanistan Army, 101st Airborne FA. Seriously wounded in Afghanistan stepped on IED and lost a leg. More info ?

These speakers will be appearing so long as health permits.

ALL SPEAKERS WERE COMBAT VETERANS.

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