Search Results

Your search for HUti resulted in 4 results.
 

6/5/2014 - This article appears in the June/July issue of VFW magazine While the veterans who fought on Normandy’s beaches are aging, they are most certainly not forgotten. French organizations, VFW members and museums diligently uphold the honor of the troops who served during D-Day and beyond while actively engaging younger generations to carry these stories to the future. STORY AND PHOTO BY KELLY GIBSON Conditions along the English Channel on June 6, 1944, were not id...

6/6/2012 - By Staff Sgt. Rick Scavetta, U.S. European Command www.army.mil SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France — When Eugene Cook jumped into Normandy during the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, he landed several miles from his intended drop zone. Alone in the dark French countryside, the young 101st Airborne Division paratrooper from Georgia assembled his rifle, got his bearings and began looking for other Americans among Normandy's hedgerows. In the days and weeks that followed, Cook to...

8/24/2015 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) has appointed a 13-year Army and Desert Storm veteran as the first female Assistant Quartermaster General for the nation’s largest combat veteran service organization. Debra Anderson was sworn in on August 23, 2015, before the VFW’s National Council of Administration. The announcement comes just days after a historical change to extend VFW Auxiliary membership eligibility to male spouses and male...

10/19/2016 - Debra Anderson was sworn in on Monday, October 17, 2016, as the newest Commissioner to the United States World War One Centennial Commission. She was appointed to the position by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) organization, where she is the Quartermaster General. The swearing-in took place in a small ceremony hosted by the VFW National Headquarters in Kansas City. The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission is a Congressional Commission, created to provide public ...

t

o

p