CRESCO - When First Lieutenant Loren E. Hintz volunteered for one more mission, he was likely thinking of his 15-month old daughter, Gretchen, and his eight-month pregnant wife, Gert.
Gretchen’s cousin, Mary Wemark of Ridgeway said, “At that time, the more missions you volunteered for, the sooner...
CRESCO - Sometimes it is hard to imagine a gray-haired man in a wheelchair as a young man in the Army walking among the dead on different islands in the Pacific during WWII.
But that is exactly what Harold Munkel witnessed over 70 years ago, and his memory of those experiences is as vivid today...