Flying as a medevac helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, Jim Ihli endured heartache, danger and heroic rescues in service of their mission: “Dedicated Unhesitating Service to Our Fighting Forces.”

Enlisting in the Army in 1941, Braton was stationed at Fort Mills, Phillipines. Captured in May 1942, he suffered greatly as a POW laborer in Japan, eventually losing all of his toes from disease.

Listen to Warhawk Air Museum’s Executive Director, Carson Spear, discuss how he’s learned the value of a healthy work-life balance.

Becoming a Marine means accepting uncertainty. Ernest Ferguson joined anyways, taking part in major WWII battles: Peleliu and Okinawa.

After a disastrous bombing mission in Germany, George Emerson was left as a POW in Nuremberg and the fear that no other crew members had survived.

As part of the Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam, Lorraine Diehl was instrumental to the war effort, treating US military and Vietnamese civilians from 1968-69.