~ Vet's Stories ~

  • Burt Keever, Army from Aurora, Illinois was in Tokyo,  Japan after WWII in 1946.  He was stationed in that city’s Sugamo Prison where he guarded War Crimes Prisoners including General Tojo. He recognized all the Japanese generals and admirals at the Japan Surrender Ceremony on the deck of the USS Missouri.
  • Victor Charles Mazylewski, Navy served in WWI.  After attending Radio School at the U.S. Naval Station.  During the end of the war, he was a radio operator on the H51-H52 “Flying Boat.” He operated the radio telephone using the “dot-dash” system.  He was the first naval sailor to send a message from a plane to at ship!
  • Merchant Marine Milan Zeman was aboard one of the ships that escorted the USS Missouri to Tokyo Bay when Japan surrendered in 1945.
  • Past Lieutenant Robert W. Schmidt. – USNR, Active Duty December 1942 – June 1946.  After receiving my commission at Columbia University, New York, New York and also attended the Deep Sea Divers School on Pier 88 in New York City, in December, 1945, I became the Captain of the U.S.S. ATR-11 [ATR’s were ocean going salvage ships].  I was to take 3 large barges  through the Panama Canal from Philadelphia to San Diego. When arriving at Christoba, we could only get 2 barges through.
  • We had to come back on a second trip to pick up the 3rd barge and then reassemble the tow at Balboa and proceed to San Diego.
    Two relatives of Glen Snow fought in the Revolutionary

  • War:  1) Reuben Stivers, Private for the 3rd, 5th, 7th & 11th Virginia Regiments and 2) Aaron Darnell, MD from Woodford County, Kentucky was a drummer and a soldier wounded twice and captured by the British once.

  • L. Snow, Jr. was on board the U.S.S. Vixon, a flagship of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in 1945.  He was the chief yeoman in charge of the ship’s office and all personnel.