WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Howard Smith

Born in Cornis, Utah December 4, 1924  90 years old Volunteered for U.S. Airforce as B-17 bomber pilot.   Flew 29 missions over Europe.   Pearl Harbor 1:48- I was skiing and we came down off of the mountain. We were about 30 miles from home, so we stopped at a drugstore to get something to [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Leonard Rosenfield

Born in Minnesota. Volunteered for the US Army Was rejected from combat units (too skinny) Stayed in USA working for the Army on secret radio and communications projects. 4:03 He’s a certified art teacher, graduated from the Walker Arts Center in Minnesota and also went through Chouinard Institute out in L.A. and L.A. trade tech. [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Bernhard Penner

Born in 1926 in Germany in a small town , 89 years old. Enlisted in the U.S. Army. Served in the Pacific in the Infantry as rifleman. In 1938 I was one of a very small group of Jewish kids from Germany who were on a kinder transport. You’ve probably heard of kinder transports to [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Jack Nadel

Born Brooklyn, NY. 92 years old. Volunteered in U.S. Army Aircorp as a B-29 bomber navigator and radar officer. Flew 27 missions.   1:50-3:50- story about horse sculpture, study for a dream about horses running from east to west side of Berlin wall. 4:00 Born October 4, 1923 in Brooklyn, was 171/2 living in NY [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Oscar Lowenschuss

Born in Germany and fled the Nazis. Volunteered for U.S. Navy as engineer. Did not serve overseas. Supervised German prisoners in the USA and did training/jobs stateside. worked for Raytheon after service. Has 21 patents on various gadgets, equipment that the Navy or Army uses Was born in Vienna Austria in 1925. My parents had [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Benjamin Lipman

When they first called me I was 18 with the 18’s and we were for 6 weeks infantry training then we were distributed to different regiments which were going overseas right away When I was 18 years old I was living with my parents 1:40-5:31- Story about wife and how they met. 5:40- I was [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Sid Krumholz

Born in New York City April 9, 1925 lived in the Bronx Volunteered for US Army in 30th infantry division, heavy weapons. Was at D-Day. Had a diabetic younger brother named Robert 2:40   His kids Susan and Andrew 3:27 Talks about the depression 4:10   Years with Ford Motor Company 5:00   Depression years, small apartment, father [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Jerry Harris

Born in Minneapolis, September 15, 1918 Was drafted and served in the US Army overseas as a medical professional (first dental then psychological)   Mother Dora Friedman Father born in what is now Romania in a place called Tulchia in the area of the Black Sea. Came to US at age 13 in 1889 and [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|

WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Rubin Boxer

Born in Brooklyn NY in 1927 Volunteered for US Navy as Electrical Engineer (did not serve overseas as he was in bootcamp when the bomb was dropped on Japan – both of his brothers, now deceased, were paratroopers during the war overseas) Father –Max Mother- Lillian   1:38- 14 When the war started I was [...]

2016-11-28T09:48:41-08:00January 22nd, 2016|CBB, Special Programs|
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