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Leroy Balmain, Merchant Marines/Air Force, WW II/Korea (Interviewed March 17, 2011) Leroy Balmain was in boot camp at Catalena Island when the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. As a Merchant Marine and later in the Air Force, he did not see combat duty but served his country first as a fireman aboard the SS Alfred C. True and then eventually as an Administrative Supervisor. He and his wife Marita were married in 1946 and his assignments took them from Alaska to Topeka to Alabama to Washington DC to Shreveport to the Philippines and finally back to the States and in 1972 to Bryan, where he served four years as an Air Force Recruiter. After he retired from the service, he spent 19 years as Executive Director for the Better Business Bureau here. So you see his entire adult life has been one of service.
Gary Banta, U.S. Army, Vietnam (Interviewed Feb. 11, 2010) Gary Banta joined the Army in 1967, well into the Vietnam War. he both drove and rode shotgun on truck convoys, delivering supplies to the hotspots where choppers and aircraft could not land. It was a year tour that certainly had it’s danger. Later he was assigned to Ft. Knox where he did indeed see the gold! And he was a chaplain’s assistant in Germany.
Gene Barber, U.S. Navy, WW II (Interviewed May 9, 2007) Gene Barber served the people of Williamson County as its sheriff for seven years, sold cars and lumber and delivered the mail in the years before that. But that all came after his 33 year months at sea, serving aboard the carrier USS Corregidor during four major battles of World War II’s Pacific Campaign. Plus, you will not find a bigger Bob Wills fan. They were both born in Kosse, Texas.
Garland Bayliss, U.S. Navy, WW II (Interviewed June 17, 2010) Join the Navy and see the World! And indeed Lt. Commander Garland Bayliss of College Station saw most of it in his two-year service aboard Auxiliary Personnel 149, a Troop Transport Ship during World War II. It was a vessel built only as a transport and ferried up to 3,000 from one town or island to another. It took some back home from war and some from home into war. He was on the water both in the Pacific and Atlantic for two years and traveled some 125,000 Nautical Miles. In all Garland Bayliss spent 30 years in the Navy and the reserves and then later spent 34 years as professor of history at Texas A&M.
Norman Beal, U.S. Marines, Korea (Interviewed Oct. 29, 2009) Some call it the forgotten war, but Norman Beal of rural Brazos County has not forgotten a thing about his 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines assault on the Korean coast in 1950. Nor has he forgotten the horror in the cold of that winter, scaling the cliffs at the beaches of Incheon, nor the card game that kept him in Korea to fight even longer. The Korean war cost 54,000 American lives and another 8000 were missing and Norman Beal counts himself very lucky to have survived to tell his story of service.
Footage captured, using the Data Acquisition Camera (DAC), showing the crew Alan Bean, Own Garriott, and Jack Lousma performing experiments onboard of Skylab 3.
Footage captured, using the Data Acquisition Camera (DAC), showing the crew Alan Bean, Own Garriott, and Jack Lousma performing experiments onboard of Skylab 3.
Jon Bennett, KAMU TV/Station Manager (Interviewed 2010) This Show was with KAMU Station Manager Jon Bennett, talking about the more than five years of Veterans of the Valley. Just a review of what at the time, was 145 shows.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
Episode from a radio program produced in the 1940s featuring "Ranger Bill," the affectionate name of Bill Scott, ranger of the Beaver Dam National Forest. The plots include adventures in the forest with his niece and their companions while educating listeners on the importance of forestry and forest conservation.
