• S/SGT Harry L Pillow's helmet

    February 2014 a post appeared on  Mark Bando's Trigger Time Forum in which a regular forum member requested more information about a helmet he found in the vicinity o...

  • Andy Giambroni receives high French honor

    A Red Bluff man will be honored by the country of France on Friday when he is decorated with the title of Chevalier or Knight of the Legion Medal of Honor at a ceremony at the Elks Lodge.

  • Growing up, no one talked about daddy or the war

    My dad, Roy E. McDowell was born October 19, 1914 in Buffalo, Kentucky, a farming community. His parents, John and Mamie Miller McDowell, had 9 children. Daddy had 3 older siblings, Ruth, E...

  • To this day, I don’t like snow!

    A forced march as part of the 3rd Army thrust, fate placed us outside the City of Bastogne. A Christmas time night infiltration through the city had us replacing our comrades of the 4th Arm...