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On April 8, 1945, Lynn Cecil Dollar of Seminole Oklahoma, along with 4,000 other American POW began a 281 march from Stalag 17B north of Vienna Austria to Munich Germany.
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In the fall of 1952, just a couple of months short of my twenty-first birthday, I was working for Johnson Construction Company as a dump truck driver. The work was hard, as most of the loading was done manually. After a hard day’s work, I came home ready for a comfortable chair and the newspaper.
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TULSA AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, OKLAHOMA – The 138th Fighter Wing is one of nine Air National Guard bases chosen to receive upgraded, fifth-generation radars for the F-16 Viper.
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Everyone rises as the first note of a Seminole hymn fills the chapel. Soon after, an American flag is gently rolled back to the middle of the casket, so the top can be opened and a hero revealed.
Read moreFrancis Craven isn’t one to run out and see blockbuster war films.
Read moreIn April 1945, after more than three years as a guerrilla leader in the Philippines, Lt. Col. Edward Ernest McClish came home to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, where his family, who had refused to believe him dead, waited for him.
Read moreServicemen from Seminole County who died during World War (1) service included:
Read moreWhen my dad, Robert E. Hensley, was diagnosed with dementia, my mother had him write down a few notes about his experience in World War II.
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