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 If you have something to add to our collection, please contact Dann at 530-742-3090 or email at cws21779@aol.com

Wayne Leikam Sr. with photos from the USS Oriskany in a folder and write up. he also donated his grandsons (AO2 Donald Cowgill - USN) ribbon bar from Iraq service on the USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71. 

hank you for your service Wayne and Donald!

Mrs Lorraine Stowers donated 2 paintings that her late son, Wayne painted of a World War II Spitfire and a Vietnam War F-4 in his memory. Thank you Mrs Stowers, Wayne is not forgotten!
 

Larry Long brought in a World War I personnel desk that belonged to Janey Peterson who was the daughter of Seaman Tracy Eaton US Navy in WW I who had the desk overseas. Inside are the letters he wrote, photos he took and momentos he brought home. They were donated by Larry in the memory of Tracy and Janey so they are not forgotten!

Jack Cudd with photos he signed at the museum of himself in Wor War II in Italy where he flew a P-51 fighter with the 31st fighter Group, 308th Sqd as a 1st Lt. He soloed in a glider with the Army Air Corps before going to Italy. Hi P-51 was named "Sandy Gulch Buzzard" Also a big Thank you to Jack for his donation of a check for the new building fund!!!!!!!!

Harlan Hatfield brought in 5 photos signed to the museum which included one of him after his return from Nam in 1968 as a tech Sgt in the USAF. Thank you for each ones service to our Great Nation!

David Long with his LRRP Team photo he signed for the museum that was taken after a Recon patrol on Feb 17, 1968 near binh Son, viet Nam where they captured NVA weapons in a hairy firefight. The LRRP Team was with Co C, 50th Inf, 9th Inf Div. Thank you David and WELCOME HOME!

Retired Captain Jim Brosman from Marysville, CA served with the 10th Special Forces Group in Viet Nam, and

with the 5th Group at Da Nang. He donated his yearbook and beret, and signed a photo of himself. his air medal citation from MACV in Viet Nam and signed photo of him making a pqarchute jump with the 10th Special Forces Group at Bold Tolz He also donated some

WWII memorabilia that he acquired while in Germany.

Thank you for your service Jim!

Senior Airmen Linginfelter, Blythway, and Morse donate their respective Air Force unit ball caps.

THANK YOU GENTLEMEN!

The museum is interested in building a robust collection of such ball caps, especially now that they are being phased out

due to the replacement of the Air Froce Battle Dress Uniform with the Airman Battle Uniform

Veterans Day 2007 at the museum

Ben Mulkey's father signs a litho of the Vietnam Memorial Wall and his mother and father present it to the museum.

Ben Mulkey is in the 101st Airborne Division on his second tour in Iraq.

Myron Dodd was a crew member on the WWII Bomber "FAST NUMBER" and was shot down over Germany in 1944.

He donated a German Nazi flag and armband from the POW camp where he was held. He aslo brought a picture of the crew

Mrs Mildred Stadel donated the WWII foot locker of her brother Ray Fissel. Ray was with the 184th infantry and spent time stationed in Attu and Kiska, Alaskan islands which saw fighting in the war. He was also on Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific,  where he obtained the Japanese Naval flag and brought it back to share with his family.

She has had the foot locker, pictures, and a yearbook in her posession for several decades, and is glad that Ray's memory will be preserved in the museum.

 This page was last updated on March 08, 2008