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02/19/2024

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07/12/2023

Friends is proud to offer this special opportunity for you to participate, virtually only, in our annual summer teachers conference from Tuesday, July 18 - Thursday, July 20. The conference will feature eight presentations by educators and WWII experts, including two new presentations by Friends’ ...

07/12/2023

Happy Anniversary to the Army Medical Service Corps! Today we honor 106 years of dedication and the thousands of officers who have been a part of the long history of leadership and service.


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07/12/2023

07/06/2022

US Personnel in a Jeep with the 48th Armored Medical Battalion, 2nd Armored Division stop to look at a sign thanking them in Le Molay-Littry Normandy France - July 4, 1944

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07/05/2022

Posting especially for those that may have had the honor of meeting Mr. Freeman at the Reading WW2 Weekend along with the other Easy Company members. Mr. Freeman was the last surviving, and a veteran of many engagements with Easy.

The family of Bradford Freeman has announced the news of his peaceful passing, July 3, 2022, 3:45 p.m., age 97, in Caledonia, Mississippi.

Brad was the last surviving member of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, the legendary WWII paratroopers known as the Band of Brothers.

His death truly marks the end of an era.

I met Brad several times over the years at various military gatherings, as this 2010 photo shows, but per his wishes I never formally interviewed him for a book. Those who knew him best say he was kindhearted, softspoken, and gracious. A real gentleman.

Brad responded to a 1990 letter from Dick Winters, when Winters asked him if he could come visit, and Brad's response was recorded in Stephen Ambrose’s book and the HBO series:

"It would be a great honor for you to come to see us in Mississippi. We have a good shade to sit in in the summer and have a good heater for winter. About all that I do is garden and cut hay for cows in summer and feed in winter. Fish and hunt the rest of the time. I have a good place on the front porch to sit. Here’s hoping that you will come down sometime.”

Dick Winters did, and they had a good visit.

Brad was born on September 4, 1924, in Mississippi. He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fought in Operation Market Garden, and survived the wintery siege of Bastogne despite being wounded in the attack on Noville on January 14, 1945. After a three-month recuperation, he returned to Easy company for the occupation of Berchtesgaden and Austria.

Following the war, he returned to the United States and married Willie Girley, a childhood friend, in June 1947. The couple had two daughters. He finished college and while operating a farm, worked as a mail carrier for more than 30 years.

He will be greatly missed.

Photo courtesy Jay @ https://tinyurl.com/3dkbus79

06/10/2022

An Army nurse of the famed Angels of Bataan smiles as she is evacuated from the Philippines in 1945.

The Angels were members of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps who were stationed in the Philippines at the outset of the Pacific War and served during the Battle of the Philippines in 1941–1942. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, 11 navy nurses, 66 army nurses, and 1 nurse-anesthetist were captured and imprisoned in and around Manila. They continued to serve as a nursing unit while they were prisoners of war, providing lifesaving care to the civilian POWs in the Santo Tomas and Los Banos Internment Camps. After years of hardship, they were finally liberated in February 1945.

Before going home, the Angels would hear live music for the first time in years at their awards ceremony where they received military🎖decorations for their service in the Pacific. The music would be provided by none other than the 746th FEAF Band.

The 746th FEAF Band recorded the only known album by a frontline band unit in the jungles of the Pacific. Stream and add these veterans music to your Spotify and Apple Music playlists or download a digital copy of the album for free on the band website. Your streams and downloads will help these World War II veterans earn a Best Historical Grammy nomination later this year.🎺

Digital album👉🏼 https://746thfeaf.com/music

Spotify👉🏼 https://open.spotify.com/artist/4pv6OK7a0IpNlYIe8Y4mmm?si=B51UnJJ6QHmRvFziE0Oc7w

Apple Music👉🏼 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/746-feaf/1536981458

Pandora👉🏼 https://pandora.app.link/svuLLkLRIqb

Deezer👉🏼 https://deezer.page.link/wzN81222qPgx2E6N8

YouTube Music👉🏼 https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC1N9B9ct2aXR9NnPFi1MsUw?feature=gws_kp_artist&feature=gws_kp_artist

12/05/2021

An exhausted U.S. Army nurse at the 44th Evacuation Field Hospital. This photograph was taken a month after D-day. Location: July, 1944, Bricqueville. Normandy, France.

Forty nurses were attached to this mobile hospital, eight miles south of Omaha Beach. Between 5 July and 4 August, they treated some 4,500 patients, of which only 50 died. It was not unusual for nurses and other medical personnel to work 18-hour shifts.



Caption: The Guardian
Photo: Lee Miller

11/25/2021

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!