http://donmooreswartales.com "Tell it like it is..." Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:19:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://donmooreswartales.com http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/24/dale-augerson/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/24/dale-augerson/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:38:12 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=5656 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/24/dale-augerson/feed/ 0 Don Moore Baker 3rd Class Dale Augerson is pictured with his new bride Betty Jane Boyle, in New York City Nov. 26, 1945. Photo provided Augerson is pictured in his summer uniform shortly before he boarded the transport to Bremerton, Wash. to go to war. Photo provided WWII Memorial in Washington DC with granddaughter Miss Caitlin Augerson. The DC trip was during Dale's 92 year for a celebration of WWII survivors. Photo provided http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/22/george-burger/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/22/george-burger/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:38:06 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=8779 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/22/george-burger/feed/ 0 Don Moore George Burger (left) wanted to be a Naval aviator, but ended up as a radar operator aboard a Super Constellation flying out of a base in Canada during the "Cold War." He's pictured with his buddy Don Fitzik shortly after they got out of boot camp at Great Lakes. Photo provided This was Burger's unit at Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago. He's the sailor in the front row far left. Photo provided George Burger is pictured with his mother, father, and four brothers when he graduated from boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in 1955. Photo provided Burger holds a large picture of a Super Constellation, four-engine patrol plane like the one he flew on taking off from Argentia Naval Air Station in Newfoundland. Sun photo by Don Moore This is Burger today at 74. Sun photo by Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/20/ed-blissick/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/20/ed-blissick/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:38:16 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=6270 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/20/ed-blissick/feed/ 0 Don Moore Ed Blissick of Englewood, Fla. is pictured as a 19-year old Navy deep water diver assigned to diving school at Pier 88 in New York City in 1943. Photo provided Blissick served in the engine room of the USS Montague, aka 98, that took part in the Okinawa Invasion near the end of World War II. Photo provided Ed Blissick pictured at his Gardens of Gulf Cove home in 2003 at the age of 79. Sun photo by Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/17/ed-lukach/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/17/ed-lukach/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:38:08 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=8843 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/17/ed-lukach/feed/ 0 Don Moore 2nd Lt. Ed Lukach of Port Charlotte is pictured with his wings shortly after graduating from bombardier school in 1944. He flew 30 combat mission in 8th Air Force during World War II. Photo provided Ed Lukach, bombadier, of Port Charlotte, Fla. is squatting at the far left. Beside him is Dale Maluy, pilot, of Grand Junction, Colo.; Martin Bernstein, co-pilot; Stanley Britzman, navigator, Los Angeles, CA. Standing from the left Eddie Borsuk, tail gunner, Scranton, PA.; Raymond Zuckerman, radio operator, St. Louis, MO.; Laurel Geschin, gunner, Colorado Springs, Colo., Daniel Nagel, engineer, Flushing, N.Y.; Bill Duff, cameraman, Ross, Calif.; Bernard Holland, ball turret gunner, Santa Ana, Calif. They were members of the 305th Bomb Group, 422 Bomb Squadron of the 8th Air Force based near North Hampton, England. Photo provided A line of B-17 "Flying Fortresses" prepares to take off from a field near North Hampton, England on a bombing mission to Germany during World War II. Photo provided Gen. Curtis LeMay was one of the early commanders of the 305th Bomb Group, part of the 8th Air Force flying from fields in England to bomb the Reich in World War II. Lukach today at 89. Sun photo by Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/15/ed-ochen/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/15/ed-ochen/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:38:00 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=9183 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/15/ed-ochen/feed/ 0 Don Moore 2nd Lt. Ochen is pictured in his leather flight jacket a life time ago during World War II. Photo provided Ochen's original crew stands in front of the twin-engine, B-26 they flew in training back in the states. He is second from the left. Photo provided A flight of B-26 marauders head for a target in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War. Photo provided Ed Ochen of Venice, Fla. looks at the flight log he kept for the 60 combat missions he flew in a B-26 Marauder bomber over Nazi-occupied Europe in World War II. Sun photo by Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/13/don-fowler/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/13/don-fowler/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:38:26 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=9156 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/13/don-fowler/feed/ 1 Don Moore Don Fowler of Rotonda, Fla. holds a Japanese Army rifle and a flag he got in Tokyo while serving aboard the carrier USS Bennington during World War II. Sun photo by Don Moore Fowler served aboard the USS Bennington at the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa during the closing months of World War II. Photo provided This Japanese rifle is inscribed with the date and the place where Fowler received the war souvenir. Sun photo by Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/10/hager-blair/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/10/hager-blair/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:38:07 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=7846 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/10/hager-blair/feed/ 0 Don Moore Hager Blair of Englewood, Fla. pictured as a young Air Force recruit shortly after he joined the service during World War II. Photo provided This was Blair who served as a sergeant in the Strategic Air Command 60 years ago. Photo provided Blair is shown participating in a Strategic Air Command ceremony in the 1950s. He served 22 years in the Air Force before retiring to Englewood in 1976. Photo provided Blair retired to Englewood in 1976 and spent a lot of time on the links. Photo provided http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/08/skip-libby/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/08/skip-libby/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:38:55 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=8712 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/08/skip-libby/feed/ 0 Don Moore Skip Libby is pictured in his Marine Corp graduation picture taken in 1963 after surviving Parris Island, S.C. boot camp. He was among the first Marines to be sent to Vietnam in 1965. Photo provided Lance Cpl. Libby in his Class-A summer uniform shortly after graduating from boot camp at Parris Island. Lance Cpl. Libby digs rainwater trench around his new home in south Vietnam in 1965. Photo provided Libby today at 68 http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/06/mike-goff/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/06/mike-goff/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:38:08 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=9107 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/06/mike-goff/feed/ 0 Don Moore Mike Goff of Punta Gorda, Fla. was a member of the "Banshees," B-Troop, 2nd Battalion of the 17th Cavalry, in Vietnam. Mel Gibson, on this poster, plays Lt. Col. Hal Moore in the new movie "We Were Soldiers," which opened at the Regal Cinemas in Port Charlotte, fla. this week-end. Sun photo by Michael McLoone Mike Goff, shown here with his OH-6A "Little Bird" observation helicopter with its mini-Gatling gun hanging out the side was only 20 in 1970 when this picture was taken in Vietnam. Photo provided http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/03/john-wisse/ http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/03/john-wisse/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:38:55 +0000 Don Moore http://donmooreswartales.com/?p=9039 ]]> http://donmooreswartales.com/2012/02/03/john-wisse/feed/ 1 Don Moore Seaman 2/C John Wisse is pictured at 20 in his Navy dress uniform. Photo provided The heavy cruiser USS Santa Fe (left) pours water on the 27,000 ton carrier USS Franklin after she was hit by two bombs from a low-flying Japanese fighter plane off the coast of Japan on March 19, 1945. In the background is the USS Hickox that John Wisse served on. He and his shipmates were credited with saving a number of sailors from the Franklin that day. Photo provided DD 673 was a Fletcher Class destroyer that could do 30 knots or better at flank speed if called on. This was Wisse's home afloat for 2 1/2 years. Photo provided Skipper was the Hickox's masacot throughout the war in the Pacific. During the height of a typhoon that sank three other destroyers off the Philippines in December 1944 the pup was washed over the side, but wound up on the destroyer's stern and was rescued. Photo provided Wisse is pictured in his war room with a model and pictures of his ship the USS Hickox that he served aboard during World War II. Sun photo by Don Moore