MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA
MILITARY DATA



World War II Honor Roll










They Came Home To Die
They fought in the Coral Sea - The Battle of Midway - The Solomons - Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Rabaul and Burma.
Across North Africa, Ploesti, Sicily, into Italy - Salerno, Anzio.
They bombed and fought in daylight raids over Europe - Frankfurt, Cologne, Schweinfurt, Hamburg -
They fought over the heads of Allied soldiers from Normandy to Berlin -
They fought from the Sahara Desert to the Aleutians -
They won the skies and blasted the Islands of New Guinea, Ulithi, Saipan, Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawa -
and on to Japan - To final victory over the Rising Sun and the Swastika.
They came home to die! Thousands of Flying Fortresses, Liberators, Super Fortresses, Havocs, Mitchells, Thunderbolts, Lightings, Warhawks,
and others made their last flights across the world's two great oceans to find lasting peace in the country they had so gallantly defended - The United States of America.
They carried the other heros of the battles home with them  the young and old war-weary veterans that had fought with them in the air and that had been protected by them on the ground.
The planes and men had served their country with honor, brought the victory home, and it was now time to part ...
the men would return to wives and girl friends, to sons and daughters, to Moms and Dads ... eventually, for most of them, their lives would return to normal.
For the aircraft of the greatest air force in world history ... it would be a different story.




Return To The Main Index