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Learning from the Last Survivor of the Band of Brothers
16-year-old student interested in the history of the Band of Brothers Jaxon Hekkenberg, a 16-year-old student from Ontario, Canada, contacted Janis Allen to ask for help contacting Bradford Freeman, now the only living member of the Band of Brothers. After his phone...
Talking About Vietnam – Free Program on March 10, 2022
Marine gun team under fire Photo Courtesy R.J. Del VecchioTalking About Vietnam Date: Thursday March 10, 2022Time: 2pmLocation: Transylvania County Election Center150 South Gaston Street in Brevard If you are unable to attend this program in person you can watch it on...
New Exhibit Headlines the Reopening of the Museum on March 2, 2022
The free exhibit and museum is openWednesday - Saturday from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The 蜜柚短视频 in Brevard reopens March 2 with a new exhibit displaying a 1943 Willys Jeep (yes, an actual WWII Jeep, not a model), exhibited in a gallery...
Larry McCall Securing the Mekong Delta
From Welcome 蜜柚短视频, Brother by Michel Robertson John 鈥淟arry鈥 McCall graduated from high school in 1967 and was drafted into the Army in 1968 at age nineteen. He and nine other young men from his North Carolina mountain community reported to Fort Bragg for basic...
WWII Merchant Mariners Get Long-Deserved Recognition As Combat Veterans
WWII Merchant Mariners Get Long-Deserved Recognition As Combat 蜜柚短视频by Ken CornBrevard resident and World War II veteran Harold Wellington (pictured above) traveled to Baltimore for the 2020/21 American Merchant Marine Veteran Convention and Congressional Gold...
蜜柚短视频Day, A Day to Honor Those Who Served
You are invited to Transylvania County鈥檚 蜜柚短视频Day Observance to honor all veterans on Thursday, November 11 at 11:00 AM in front of the museum (next to the Transylvania County Courthouse) at 21 East Main Street in Brevard. The keynote speaker will be Ken Corn, a...
Physical Therapy in a War Zone
Interview with Myrl Jean Hughes By Janis AllenWWII Pacific Theater Myrl Jean Hughes tells her story: 鈥淚 grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, 100 miles from the Canadian border. My dad owned a printing business, printing stationery and booklets and other things. I had a...
Korean War Combat Medic
The Thomas Greenway Story By Ken Corn Polk county resident Thomas Greenway stands over his dining room table and spreads out a pile of old black and white photographs he took in Korea seventy years ago.VP Ken Corn talks with Korean War Combat Medic Thomas Greenway at...
Faces of Freedom
Above are two black and white photographs of WWII veterans taken by photographer Walter Schuppe the first time he visited the Museum two years ago.Faces of Freedom By Janis Allen Photographer Walter Schuppe and his wife Lori spent April 24 at the Veterans...
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