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There are many individuals associated with the U.S. military, both famous and virtually unknown, from the Great Lakes region.  Here is what we are writing about lately.

  • The Mormon Pirate King, James StrangWilliam BernerThe Mormon Pirate King, James Strang
    This page is a look into the life of King James Jesse Strang (1817-1856) shortly before and during his time on Beaver Island, MI in the late 1840s and early ...
  • Black HawkJarad Weeks
    Black Hawk was the most noted Indian warrior in Illinois and Iowa during the early 1800’s (Boyce, Rufus). He was born in the Sauk  village (near present-day Rick Island, Illinois) in ...
  • Major Julian SchusterDan Domitrovich
    Julian Schuster was a Major in the US Army Air Corp from 1939 to 1943.  He performed trouble-shooting and diagnostic work on aircraft in the Pacific Theater of War up ...
  • The Stonewall Regiment 17th MI VolunteersAlexander Abbott
    The Civil War, a bloody conflict that engulfed the entire nation, fought by ordinary men who accomplished the extraordinary. Forever immortalized in monuments, these men came from the same towns ...
  • Commodore Oliver Hazard PerryKellie SchaeferCommodore Oliver Hazard Perry
    Oliver Hazard Perry was born August 23, 1785 to Sarah Wallace Alexander and United States Naval Captain Christopher Raymond Perry in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Perry had three sisters and ...
  • Henry Ford and the World WarsGarrett Fisk
    Henry Ford was a leading industrialist throughout the early 1900s and created the first mass produced automobiles. Ford held many strong convictions on religion, history, politics, war and the issue ...
  • The Northwest Theater of the War of 1812, General …Joe Garner
    In June 1812, the United States’ feud with Great Britain reached a high point and the two countries plunged into war. Heat from the previous war between the two only ...
  • Colonel Delbert L. Waugh MemorialDaniel FrankColonel Delbert L. Waugh Memorial
    Colonel Delbert L. Waugh was a lieutenant colonel in the army before he retired and worked as a pilot for Angels MedFlight.  As a result of his bravery and dedication, ...
  • The Ford Family at Willow RunMartin GargaroThe Ford Family at Willow Run
    On December 29, 1940, roughly one year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech vowing to aid the Allies in their fight against Nazi Germany ...
  • Lake MI, Corsair Fails to Land on USS WolverineDevon Smith
    Carl H. Johnson of the United States Naval Reserve was completing his training to land naval aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier in mid June of 1943. Flying in his F4U-1A ...
  • John Bradleyblradlof
    John Henry Bradley was born in Antigo, Wisconsin on July 10, 1923 to James and Kathryn Bradley and was the second of five children. He had an interest of joining ...
  • Johnson’s Island POW CampOwen Buckley
    Named for the man who previously owned the island, the Johnson’s Island Prison was constructed to hold Confederate officers captured during the Civil War. Overall, the Johnson’s Island Prison facility ...
  • General William HullAlex Aprill
    William Hull was the general at the Battle of Detroit in the war of 1812. Hull is commonly criticized for his unreasonable surrender and lack of leadership during the battle, having surrendered ...
  • Iven C. Kincheloe “America’s No.1 Spac…Drake Wilson
    Iven C. Kincheloe “America’s No.1 Spaceman” was a extraordinary individual in all aspects of his life, especially tucked into the aspects of aviation history. Coming from a humble beginning being ...
  • Battle of Lake Erie – Robert Heriot BarclayBrian Shane
    Many people often forget the losing commanding officer in a war or battle. Sometimes it is at the fault of the commanding officer for the outcome of the battle, and ...