Profiles in Courage: Cloyd Braton Sersain Jr.
By: Warhawk Air Museum
Posted On: February 22, 2024
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.
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Tags: POW|Profiles in Courage|Purple Heart|Veteran's Stories|WWII
Profiles in Courage: Ernest Ferguson
By: Warhawk Air Museum
Posted On: November 17, 2023
Becoming a Marine means accepting uncertainty. Ernest Ferguson joined anyways, taking part in major WWII battles: Peleliu and Okinawa.
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Profiles in Courage: George H. Emerson
By: Warhawk Air Museum
Posted On: October 5, 2023
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.
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Profiles in Courage: Sam Pollard
By: Warhawk Air Museum
Posted On: July 21, 2023
A night of heroics by Sergeant Sam Pollard of Roswell, Idaho lead to the capture of over 100 German soldiers in Cisterna di Littoria, Italy.
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Profiles in Courage: Manuel J. Aldecoa
By: Warhawk Air Museum
Posted On: May 19, 2023
From a Basque sheep farming family in Idaho to England as part of the U.S. Army Air Corps, read Manuel Aldecoa’s heroic story.
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Profiles in Courage: Herbert “Bud” Milligan
By: Warhawk Air Museum
Posted On: April 14, 2023
Herbert “Bud” Milligan joined the Royal Canadian Air Force for free flying lessons but was soon thrust into the middle of the dangerous WWII “Siege of Malta”.
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