Marine Lt. Dallas L. Hyatt was born on April 16, 1923 in Holbrook Idaho. His family moved to Deweyville Utah where he attended Bear River high school. He would often visit friends family farms in Deweyville and would borrow a bicycle and ride it at high speed buzzing his friends shouting “I’m a Fighter Pilot [...]

He was serving in the Navy on the U.S.S. Pensacola when their ship was struck by an enemy torpedo which blew a hole in the side near where he was.  He served as a ship’s cook 3rd class even though his rank was seaman 2nd class.  He was buried on the Island, Then later his [...]

Darrell was a S/Sgt of the 837 AAf Bomb Squadron stationed in England.  After take off one flight, the plane lost two engines.  The load they were carrying was too heavy for the two remaining engines, which caused them to crash May 20, 1944.

He was killed by gunfire as his platoon was trying to take a cement bunker in Epinal, Frnace on September 24, 1944.  He was just 9 days past his 20th birthday and had the rank of P.F.C.

He joined the Army Air Corps May 24, 1939 and left for the Pacific Island June 27, 1939 where he was assigned to the 3rd Pursuit Squadron where he became a Staff Sergeant and radio inspector.  He was wounded on December 9, 1941.  He was captured by Japanese and forced on the Battaan Death March.  [...]

P.F.C. Hoskins Company A 132nd Infantry was with his company searching for the enemy northeast of Consolacious, Cebu, Philippine Islands.  They were advancing along a hill when an enemy rifleman fired from a concealed position hitting him in the head.  He died almost instantly on April 21, 1945.

On the 21st of May 1944 at Stratsland, Germany, Billy was on a strafing mission of Fack Towers’ in his P-51 fighter plane when one of the towers exploded hitting his plane and killing him.

Ira was a pilot of a heavy bomber 15th Airforce B-17.  The forst trip out was sufficiently shot up so as to be unservisable for the next operation, He was given a B-24 for the second trip- flying tail position. It was ‘Operation Ploestic Oil Fields’. His plane was shot up to the extent that [...]

Billy had flown 27 missions against Japanese targets serving as radio-operator on a B-29 super fortress from base in the Marianas.  On June 5, 1945, he had been on a mission over Kobe, Japan with 600 superforts information, when two Japanese suicide planes attacked his ship.  The tail was completely knocked off and the nose [...]

On July 8, 1944, Milton sailed from San Francisco for the South Pacific, He wrote home saying how he was much more fortunate than many of his comrades since they were weeing heavy action on a daily basis and that he had only received superficial wounds on two previous occasions.  He was on the Island [...]