Endorsements

The Michigan World War II Legacy Memorial is pleased to share that the following organizations and authors have endorsed this project.

Organizations

	American Legion of Michigan		Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Department of Michigan
	Tuskegee Airman Inc.,  Detroit Chapter		Tuskegee Airman Inc.,  Macon-Thomas Chapter
	Destroyer Escort Sailors Association Michigan Chapter		Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America Department of Michigan
	82nd Airborne Division Association James W. Etherton Detroit Chapter		101st Airborne Association Michigan Chapter
	Veterans of Foreign Wars CPL W.F. Bruce Post 1146		Disabled American Veterans Chapter 19, South Oakland County
	Blue Star Mothers Blue Water Chapter 180
	Viet Nam Veterans of America, Chapter 154		Marine Somalia Veterans Association
	Yankee Air Museum Belleville		Michigan’s Own Military and Space Heroes Museum Frankenmuth
	The Michigan Military Technical & Historical Society East Pointe		USS Silversides Submarine Museum Muskegon
	Spirit of ’45		American Rosie the Riveter Association
	Association of the US Army Arsenal of Democracy Chapter		Mid Michigan Honor Flight Mecosta
	The Seward Johnson Atelier		West Point Society of Michigan
	History Center of Traverse City		Royal Oak Historical Society
	Wayne Rotary Club		Birmingham Rotary Club
	Allen Park Rotary Club		Plymouth Rotary Club
	Berkley Rotary Club		Livonia AM Rotary Club
	Daughters of the America Revolution Stoney Creek Chapter		Daughters of the America Revolution Ezra Parker Chapter
	Michigan Society Sons of the American Revolution		Michigan Society Children of the American Revolution
	Lutheran Luncheon Club of Metro Detroit		UAW Region 1A Veterans Council
	Optimist Club of Farmington/Farmington Hills		Royal Oak Kiwanis
	Retired Lutheran Teachers of Michigan

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Authors

 

	Mark Bando Selected titles: • 101st Airborne – The Screaming Eagles in World War II • Breakout at Normandy: The Second Amored Division in the Land of the Living Dead • Vanguard Of The Crusade: The 101st Airborne Division in World War II • Avenging Eagles, Forbidden Tales of the 101st Airborne Division in World War 2
	Randy Hotton Willow Run (Images of Aviation)
	Dr. Charles K. Hyde, Professor (retired), Wayne State University Department of History Selected titles: Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II Images from the Arsenal of Democracy
	Teresa Irish A Thousand Letters Home
	Alexander Jefferson, WWII Veteran Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: The Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW
	George Koskimaki, WWII Veteran • D-Day with the Screaming Eagles • Hell’s Highway: A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne in the Holland Campaign, September-November 1944 • The Battered Bastards of Bastogne: The 101st Airborne and The Battle of the Bulge
	Katherine Miller • War Makes Men of Boys: A Soldier’s World War II
	Gregory D. Sumner • Detroit in World War II
	John Wukovits Selected titles: • For Crew and Country, The Inspirational True Story of Bravery and Sacrifice Aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts • Eisenhower: A Biography • Black Sheep: The Life of Pappy Boyington • Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island

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