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Sgt. Hugh Bennett was radio operator on B-24 dubbed: ‘The Hard Way’ in WW II

September 10, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Hugh Bennett of Englewood, Fla. was a radio operator on a B-17 “Liberator” bomber dubbed “The Hard Way.” They were part of the 854th Bomb Squadron, 491st Bomb Group, 14th Wing of the 8th Air Force flying out of a base 90 miles north of London at Mayfield, England. Bennett was a 20-year-old farm boy […]
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Pfc. Tony Mercurio goes to Korean War toothless and battles VA for next 60 years

September 12, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Tony Mercurio of Punta Gorda, Fla., who served in the 24th Infantry Division as a gun-toting, front line rifleman near the end of the Korean War, spent the remainder of his life fighting the Veterans Administration over his teeth or the lack of ‘em. “I was drafted in ’53 and sent to Fort Riley, Kan. […]
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14th Armored Division liberated a number of German POW camps during WWII

September 15, 2013, 10:38 pm
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The 14th Armored Division arrived in Marseille, France, on Oct. 29, 1944, and went into battle two weeks later at Maritime Alps along the French-Italian border under Maj. Gen. Vernon Pritchard as part of the 7th Army. Sgt. Paul Cearlock, who now lives in the Foxwood condominiums, Englewood, Fla., was the commander of a Sherman […]
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A Savannah hurricane is what Helen Salins remembers most about WWII

September 17, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Helen Salins of Polynesian Village in north Englewood, Fla.  joined the WAVES during World War II. She was 25 and already a talented artist and a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in English. “I got in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) because I had two dear friends who were killed […]
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Lt. Rich Entlich fought in Vietnam in black pajamas and flip-flops for the U.S. Army

September 19, 2013, 10:38 pm
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After graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1963, Lt. Rich Entlich found himself in Vietnam working for MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) after completing Airborne and Ranger Schools. “I served as an advisor to the South Vietnamese regional and popular forces,” the 73-year-old former career Army officer who now lives in […]
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Col. Jim Bowden got his baptism of fire on ‘Jane Russell Hill’ in Korea in ’52

October 24, 2013, 10:38 pm
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After graduating from the University of South Dakota in 1951 with a degree in math and an ROTC commission as a 2nd lieutenant, Jim Bowden was sent to Korea in ’52. “I was the commander of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 31st Regiment, 7th Infantry Division,” the 86-year-old retired officer explained. “Our company was located along […]
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He flew 1st mission in B-17 to Japanese base at Rabaul – Lt. Col. John Pickering was also a ‘Candy Bomber’ in the Berlin Airlift

October 27, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Five days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, 2nd Lt. John Pickering graduated from the U.S. Army Aviation Cadet Program. He had his wings, but he wasn’t qualified to fly anything but an AT-6 trainer. On Jan. 30, 1942, he arrived in Melbourne, Australia, and became a member of the 19th […]
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Jack Sanzalone was a command master chief in the U.S. Navy, a rare breed

October 29, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Jack Sanzalone of Port Charlotte, Fla. spent almost three decades under the sea in atomic attack submarines keeping an eye on America’s enemies as the boat combed the deep searching for adversaries. The gold chevron on his left shoulder topped with a white crow, a white star in the center and three gold bars below […]
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Sgt. Spearin injured in 3rd Army’s capture of Baghdad

October 31, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Sgt. Richard Spearin is every bit the Multiple Launch Rocket System gunner as he stares out of a picture on a photo wall at Lemon Bay High School in Englewood, Fla. of former students now serving in the military around the world\ What makes the 1998 graduate of LBHSchool a standout among all the pictures […]
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He fought with Gen. Patton in France – Cpl. Richard Erdley wounded while fighting with 35th Division

November 3, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Pvt. Richard Erdley was a member of the 35th Infantry Division, part of Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army, in World War II. He was wounded at the battle for Nancy, France shortly after the general’s 3rd Army began to push the Germans into Germany during the final assault of the Second World War. Like millions […]
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Col. Jim Fraser of Port Charlotte, Fla. graduated near top of his ’47 West Point class

November 5, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Jim Fraser already had two years of college behind him at the Missouri School of Mines when he got a chance to take a competitive exam in 1944, along with 360 other potential candidates, for the United States Military Academy at West Point. He not only passed the test, but three years later graduated in […]
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Jack Bohan was CIA agent before working for Defense Intelligence Agency 3 decades

November 7, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Before he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, Jack Bohan of Englewood, Fla. began his second hitch in the Navy serving aboard a destroyer during the Korean War. “I was discharged from the Navy after my first hitch in early April 1950. Eight weeks later I was recalled and went […]
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Tom Poole was a CIA commander in Laos during the ‘Secret War’– He fought at Long Tieng during the ‘Easter Offensive’

November 10, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Tom Poole was a Green Beret, a member of the Special Forces, in Vietnam in 1964. Later he became a Central Intelligence operative in Laos commanding mercenaries along the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the “Secret War” in 1970. The 62-year-old Punta Gorda, Fla. city councilman’s adventures in Southeast Asia began when he accepted a […]
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Airman Carter Endsley was a jet engine mechanic during ‘Cold War’ in Europe

November 12, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Carter Endsley of Punta Gorda Isles kept the F-100 “Super Sabre” jet fighter planes of the 48th Tactical Fighter-Bomber Wing in the air during the “Cold War” in Europe in the 1950s and ’60s. For four years he served as a jet engine mechanic in the U.S. Air Force. The super sonic fighters he worked […]
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Capt. Mike Clarity was skipper of destroyer, USS Cochrane and Port Commander at Pearl Harbor

November 14, 2013, 10:38 pm
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During his 30 year Naval career Mike Clarity of Punta Gorda, Fla. was the skipper of a guided missile destroyer and the Port Commander at Pearl Harbor by the time he retired from the service. His love for the sea began years earlier growing up on Broad Channel, an island in Jamaica Bay off New […]
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Brian Nethery returns to Big Red One in Iraq War

November 17, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Spc. 4 Brian Nethery is headed back to Iraq after 15 days’ rest and relaxation following eight months in the thick of it with the “Big Red One,” the 1st Infantry Division, stationed at Balad, approximately 50 miles north of Baghdad. “I’ve got the best job in the Army,” the 21-year-old soldier said enthusiastically. “I’m […]
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A Marine at Guadalcanal – Pfc. John O’Donnell was in the 1st Marine Division

November 19, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Guadalcanal was where the Japanese were stopped in their westward advance by American air, land and sea power. Former Marine Pfc. John O’Donnell, 84, of Holiday Park in Englewood, Fla. was a tiny part of that historic Pacific invasion. The battle began on Aug. 6, 1942, and continued for seven months during the early part […]
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‘J. Edgar Hoover thought I was directly responsible for JFK’s death:’ FBI Agent James Hosty

November 21, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Because, today Friday, Nov. 22 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we thought it was appropriate to provide our readers something special they probably had not read before. Former FBI Agent James Hosty told Don Moore, senior writer for the Charlotte Sun daily newspaper, Port Charlotte, Fla., during an […]
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Port Charlotte, Fla. man fought his way through France during WW II

November 24, 2013, 10:38 pm
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The old man sitting on his purple electric scooter in his son’s Port Charlotte, Fla. home was once a sniper in the 10th Armored “Tiger” Division when it landed in France shortly after D-Day during World War II. Staff Sgt. Steve Kruger arrived on the beach at Cherbourg on Sept. 13, 1944, and became part […]
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Lt. Jean Clough was an Army nurse who served in North Africa & Italy during WW II

November 26, 2013, 10:38 pm
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Jean Clough graduated from high school in 1938 at 17, but she couldn’t get into nursing school at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. until she was 18. It was a long year’s wait. It would be 1943 before she graduated as a Registered Nurse and joined the Army Nurses Corps. By then World War […]
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