Warrant Officer Anthony Joseph Vroblesky of Hazleton, Pennsylvania fell in the first wave during the 1944 invasion of Saipan.
Marine from Luzerne County wounded in the invasion of Saipan | June 1944
Private Harvey L. Adams | Killed on D-Day, June 6, 1944
Private Harvey L. Adams was killed-in-action just hours after his son was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
A Pennsylvania sailor recounts the Battle of Midway | June 1942
Emil Kimmel provided an incredible description of his experiences aboard the USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway.
Public Presentation | “Gone to the Seat of War” – Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region Responds to Confederate invasion
Learn more about the Coal Region's response to the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863.
Letters from War – Sergeant Schwartz’s farewell to General Eisenhower – June 1945
In the weeks after VE Day in the spring of 1945, General Eisenhower returned to the US. Sergeant Schwartz penned a farewell to his "supreme commander."
Letters from War – Two letters written on the eve of the first anniversary of D-Day – June 1945
A year after Irvin Schwartz first experienced combat on D-Day, he reflected on the first anniversary of the important date.
Letters from War – Reflections on D-Day and the fighting in Normandy, June 1944
Pfc. Irvin Schwartz wrote home to Schuylkill County in June 1944 to celebrate the work of his hometown newspaper in their coverage of D-Day.
Letters from War – The first letter from the battlefields of Normandy, June 1944
Pfc. Schwartz writes from Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landings about what he'd read in his hometown newspaper in Pennsylvania.