Being recognized—Gen. Courtney Hodges, commanding general of 1st Army, presents Hank Abajian, a civilian, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for perfecting and installing radar on 90 millimeter anti-aircraft guns on the front line in World War II. Sun photo by Don Moore.
Besides the 16 million service men and women who took part in World War II, there were also thousands of civilians on the front lines involved in fighting against the Germans and the Japanese, too. Read the rest of this entry »
