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Freedom Fighters: Odell Poovey
Freedom Fighters: Odell Poovey
Updated: Sunday, April 25 2010 12:21 PM EDT2010-04-25 16:21:30 GMT

Odell Poovey not only experienced some of the greatest sea battles of World War II, he recorded them for history.More >>
12/21/07- Hideaway
Freedom Fighters: Bernie Demers
Freedom Fighters: Bernie Demers
As a career Air Force pilot, Bernie Demers spent a number of Christmas seasons away from home, especially during the Vietnam War. More >>
12/14/07-Athens
Freedom Fighters: Cecil Downey
Freedom Fighters: Cecil Downey
Cecil Downey of Athens was in the first wave of Marines to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima in February of 1945.More >>
12/7/07-Noonday
Freedom Fighters: Frank Dolan
Freedom Fighters: Frank Dolan
Eighteen year old Frank Dolan was aboard the repair ship, The U.S.S. Vestal the morning of December 7, 1941.More >>
11/23/07-Palestine
Freedom Fighters: Lawton Bomer
Freedom Fighters: Lawton Bomer
When seventeen year-old Lawton Bomer joined the Army in 1939, he was looking for a job. What he got was a war.More >>
11/16/07-
Freedom Fighters: Clyde Mote
Freedom Fighters: Clyde Mote
Clyde Mote was only seventeen when he went into the Army in 1943. Growing up on and East Texas farm, Mote had never even had a fight much less killed someoneMore >>
11/9/07-Bullard
Freedom Fighters: Bob Moore
Freedom Fighters: Bob Moore
Bob Moore's leadership and personal courage in World War Two earned him the Silver Star and the Bronze Star, as well as a special medal from the King of Belgium. More >>
11/2/2007-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Homer Garrett
Freedom Fighters: Homer Garrett
Homer Garrett went into the Army at the age of nineteen. The year was 1943 and World War Two was raging. More >>
10/26/07-Gladewater
Freedom Fighters: Ike Bell
Freedom Fighters: Ike Bell
Ike Bell had never talked about his experiences in World War Two until recently. And yet those experiences have been memorialized both in a motion picture and in print.More >>
10/19/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Lester Sutton
Freedom Fighters: Lester Sutton
Lester Sutton fought in five major European Campaigns during World War Two including Normandy, Rhineland, Battle of the Bulge, Central Europe, and Southern France. More >>
10/12/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Jim Wills
Freedom Fighters: Jim Wills
For over twenty years, Jim Wills of Tyler served his country in both the Navy and the Air Force. More >>
10/5/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: James W. Fair
Freedom Fighters: James W. Fair
James W. Fair is widely known as an astute businessman and philanthropist. But in 1944 he was just a teenager trying to help his country win World War Two.More >>
9/28/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Billy Dean
Freedom Fighters: Billy Dean
For 45 years Billy Dean wouldn't talk about his experiences as a Marine on the front lines in the Korean War. Five years ago, at the request of his ill brother-n-law, Dean began putting those experiences into a book.More >>
9/14/07-Palestine
Freedom Fighters: Charles Leonard
Freedom Fighters: Charles Leonard
Because he had always wanted to fly and because his uncle was in the Navy, Charles Leonard joined the Naval Air Cadet Program in 1942. For three years he trained extensively with the prestigious "Crommelin's Thunderbirds."More >>
9/21/07-
Freedom Fighters: Walter Harper
Freedom Fighters: Walter Harper
At the age of 83, Walter Harper has a lifetime full of memories, with some of the most vivid being from World War Two. More >>
Freedom Fighters: Robert Moore
Freedom Fighters: Robert Moore
Robert Moore's survival during World War Two is one of the most incredible stories ever told. Moore was nineteen when he went into the Army. Through a paper mixup Moore was sent into the invasion of Africa within the month.More >>
8/24/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Robert Mills
Freedom Fighters: Robert Mills
Like his father, grandfather and great grandfather, Robert Mills fought for his country in both "hot" and "cold" wars. More >>
8/17/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Ted Walters
Freedom Fighters: Ted Walters
During World War Two, a select group of young men were picked to fly an aircraft that had never before been used in war and has never again been used in battle. Ted Walters was one of five thousand Aircorps Glider Pilots, out of a military numbering in the millions.More >>
8/10/07-Jacksonville
Freedom Fighters: B.J. Jones
Freedom Fighters: B.J. Jones
When B.J. Jones joined the Marine Corps at the age of eighteen, he was fulfilling a childhood dream. More >>
8/3/07-Hideaway
Freedom Fighters: Saigon Church
Freedom Fighters: Saigon Church
During the Vietnam War, Trinity Baptist Church in Saigon provided a home away from home for soldiers separated fro their families. This week, members of the church got together at Hideaway to celebrate a special bond that has lasted over thirty years.More >>
7/27/07-Jacksonville
Freedom Fighters: Raleigh Sherman
Freedom Fighters: Raleigh Sherman
Raleigh Sherman entered the U.S. Army Air Force in 1940 as a flying cadet. More >>
7/20/07-
Freedom Fighters: Noel and Loel Largent
Freedom Fighters: Noel and Loel Largent
Twin brothers, Noel and Loel Largent both went to Vietnam to fight for their country, but only one returned.More >>
7/13/07-Mixon
Freedom Fighters: Lou Anson
Freedom Fighters: Lou Anson
Lou Anson joined the Army as a nurse in 1942. By 1943 she was on her way to the European Theater of War, but not before she had met and married Edward Anson, the love of her life. More >>
6/29/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Jim Brettell
Freedom Fighters: Jim Brettell
Jim Brettell began his military career at the age of sixteen when he joined the Merchant Marines in 1944 during World War Two. The wounds he received during the invasion of Okinowa were to be his only wounds, although he was often in the line of fire.More >>
6/15/07-Kilgore
Freedom Fighters: Jason And Kelli Butte
Freedom Fighters: Jason And Kelli Butte
It was a military life that first brought Jason and Kelli Butte together. But they are now serving on a different kind of battlefield.More >>
6/22/07-Holly Lake
Freedom Fighters: Dick Atkins
Freedom Fighters: Dick Atkins
Dick Atkins tried to join the Navy when he was sixteen, but was turned down. On his seventeenth birthday, he finally became a sailor and by the time he was eighteen, he was in a foxhole in Okinowa.More >>
6/8/07-Athens
Freedom Fighters: Doug Tanner
Freedom Fighters: Doug Tanner
The 740th Tank Division during World War II was made up mostly of young men from Texas and Oklahoma. Doug Tanner was one of these "Daredevil Tankers."More >>
6/1/07-Chandler
Freedom Fighters: John Heffner
Freedom Fighters: John Heffner
John Heffner enlisted in the U.S. Air Corps in 1942. By the time he was twenty, he was trained as a navigator and ready to go to war. With only a week's notice, John and his sweetheart Bennie were married before John went on active duty.More >>
5/18/07-Longview
Freedom Fighters: Billy Bob Reese
Freedom Fighters: Billy Bob Reese
Billy Bob Reese was eighteen when he joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. He was to grow up fast.More >>
5/11/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: "Death March" Survivor Profiled In New Documentary
Freedom Fighters: "Death March" Survivor Profiled In New Documentary
Oliver "Red' Allen, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, is featured in a new Chinese documentary produced by Yang Jing of the China International Corporation. More >>
Freedom Fighters: Bill Dean
Freedom Fighters: Bill Dean
Sixty one years after serving his country in World War Two, Bill Dean received his medals for service to our country. More >>
4/20/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Waymon Stewart
Freedom Fighters: Waymon Stewart
Everything seemed to be happening in Waymon Stewart's life at the same time in July of 2005. He was retiring from the Army Reserves after 31 years and he was stepping into the top job as CEO at Andrews Center after 27 years working there. An order calling him to active duty in Iraq changed all that.More >>
1/12/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Charles Campbell
Freedom Fighters: Charles Campbell
Charles Campbell joined the Marine Corps in 1942 at the age of seventeen.

After being wounded in a training accident, Campbell saw action on Okinowa and in China.More >>
4/6/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Roger Carson
Freedom Fighters: Roger Carson
Roger Carson has a memorial in the front yard of his Tyler home dedicated to those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attack and to his three best friends who lost their lives in Vietnam. More >>
3/30/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: J.W. Gresham
Freedom Fighters: J.W. Gresham
J.W. Gresham faced enemy fire, imprisonment and starvation during World War Two and lived to tell his story. Inducted into the Army in March of 1944, by December, Gresham was in the middle of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of the war, the Battle Of The Bulge.More >>
3/16/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Mark Kempf
Freedom Fighters: Mark Kempf
Mark Kempf joined the Army hoping to defend our country in Iraq, but a near fatal car crash ended that dream. More >>
3/9/07-Big Wood Springs
Freedom Fighters: BIll Crook
Freedom Fighters: BIll Crook
After more than a half century of silence, Bill Crook of Big Wood Springs, can only now talk about his war experiences in World War Two. More >>
3/1/07-Mt. Enterprise
Freedom Fighters: Sam and Christine Craycraft
Freedom Fighters: Sam and Christine Craycraft
Sam and Christine Craycraft both served in the U.S. Army during World War Two, Sam in the Signal Corps and Christine as an Army Nurse. Christine was assigned to the Willie Beaumont General Army Hospital in El Paso.More >>
2/23/07-San Antonio
Freedom Fighters: Frank Fields
Freedom Fighters: Frank Fields
It was only eleven weeks ago that Frank Fields was wounded by an "ADD", Armor Defeating Device, in an American Army convoy just outside Baghdad. Fields lost both legs in the attack.More >>
2/16/07-Overton
Freedom Fighters: Tommy Guinn
Freedom Fighters: Tommy Guinn
Our brave men and women, wounded in war ,return to the U.S., not to the tune of brass bands and ticker tape parades, but to the drip of IVs and parades of doctors. They are our "Wounded Warriors" Such is the case of Tommy Guinn of Overton.More >>
2/9/07-Brownsboro
Freedom Fighters: Billy Beasley
Freedom Fighters: Billy Beasley
As principal of Brownsboro Intermediate School, Billy Beasley's life is filled with children. Ironically he says it was the loss f his own child just after he returned from Vietnam and the experiences he had in Vietnam that have made him "give his heart to children."More >>
2/2/07-Brownsboro
Freedom Fighters: Girlie Fulgham
Freedom Fighters: Girlie Fulgham
Girlie Fulgham of Brownsboro was drafted into the Army in February of 1942. During his three-and-a-half years service, he took part in four invasions and was awarded the Purple Heart and a series of Battle Stars.More >>
1/19/07-Pittsburg
Freedom Fighters: DeWayne McLung
Freedom Fighters: DeWayne McLung
Dewayne McClung's plane was the last one out of Saigon as it fell to the Vietcong 1n 1975. Designed to carry only 90 passengers, the plane carried 200 Vietnamese men, women and children to safety from the advancing Vietcong.More >>
1/26/07-Tyler
Freedom Fighters: Ken Ruether
Freedom Fighters: Ken Ruether
Ken Ruether was seventeen when he joined the Navy in 1945 as World War Two was ending. Ruether was able to get a college education on the GI Bill after the war and feels his Naval experience had a long term effect on his life.More >>
1/5/07-Longview
Freedom Fighters: David Ferrell
Freedom Fighters: David Ferrell
David Ferrell entered the Army in 1943 at the age of twenty. By the time 1944 had ended, Ferrell had been wounded four times and had earned the Silver Star, The Bronze Star and four Purple Hearts for his bravery.More >>
12/29/06-Longview
Freedom Fighters: Huel Clive Tucker
Freedom Fighters: Huel Clive Tucker
Like others of the "Greatest Generation" who fought for our freedom in World War II, it was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that spurred Huel Clive Tucker to join the Marine Corps.More >>

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