Tag: VeteranOfTheDay

Marine Corps Veteran Victor “Brute” Harold Krulak is today’s Veteran of the Day. Victor “Brute” Harold Krulak was born in January 1913 in Denver, Colorado. He was appointed to the ...

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran George B. McMillan, who was a fighter pilot during World War II and served with the 1st American Volunteer Group. George B. McMillan ...

Army Veteran Frederick Weyand is today’s Veteran of the Day. Frederick Weyand was born in September 1916, in Arbuckle, California. While attending college at the University of California, Berkeley, he ...

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Robert “Boots” Chouinard, who served during World War II. Robert “Boots” Chouinard was born in 1923. He enlisted in the Army in 1943, and a ...

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps Veteran Don A. Jones, who served during WWII and later became director of the USC&GS. Don A. Jones was born in Waldron, ...

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Ming Chang, who was the first naturalized Asian American to reach flag rank in the Navy. Ming Chang was born in Shanghai in 1932. His ...

Coast Guard Veteran Eugene “Gene” Gerrard is today’s Veteran of the Day. Eugene “Gene” Gerrard wanted to begin his military career at age 17 during the summer of 1941. He ...

Army Air Forces Veteran Ralph Parr is today’s Veteran of the Day. Ralph Parr loved to fly. At five years old, his father, a Navy squadron commander, took him flying ...

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Neel E. Kearby, who served as a fighter pilot during World War II. To a generation of young Americans, the flying aces of ...

Army Veteran William E. Vicars is today’s Veteran of the Day. William E. Vicars was born in Paris, Illinois, in May 1940 and, a year later, his family moved to ...