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The following are excerpts from the Pilot's Log book of 1st Lt Joseph Elden Leonard and flight summaries from “417th NFS Illustrated His...

If you've been pursuing your family history very long, you know at some point the "Happy Dance" moments don't come as fre...

        Bill Knutz and his bands supplied the Beadle County, South Dakota area with dance music for more than 20 years.  The first band, ...

Here I sit, labeling old photos.  Again.  I feel like I will grow old and feeble, right here, pen in hand. I have a large box of them, ...

     For the last four years, I've been the keeper of something special - the cap of Lieutenant Joseph E. Leonard of Tipp City, Ohio.  J...

In a letter dated Sept. 9, 1943, my great-uncle Ray Christensen gives a description of his work schedule in the 417th Night Fighter Squadron...

As a child, I recall my grandparents talking about the dust storms of the "Dirty Thirties," the air being so dark with blowing di...