Nancy O'Rear was born on January 7, 1938 in Grandville, Michigan. She grew up in Grandville and Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in 1951 she started following the Grand Rapids Chicks, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team. From the 1951…

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Oakes aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose in November 1968 after he contracted dysentery in the Khe Sanh Valley.

Oakes and his men preparing for their first convoy from FOB Q-West to Balad in April 2005.

Oakes and LCPL Lamphere with the platoon radios just before Oakes began working with the company. Lamphere was the man Oakes chose to replace him as platoon radioman. The day after this picture, Lamphere tripped a bobby-trapped hand grenade that took…

Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco.

Oakes at a refueling stop in Iceland on the way to Kuwait, the day after Thanksgiving 2004.

Oakes at Camp Hansen, Okinawa on his way home from Vietnam, April 1969.

Oakes preparing to go on a night patrol in March / April 1968 from Camp Dong Son.

Oakes resting after going from Camp Doung Son to a platoon patrol base in August 1968. Oakes had collapsed from heat exhaustion due to the intense heat.

Oakes spent the last 30 days in county as the NCOIC in charge of the transit tent of B Co 1/4 Marines Dong Ha (rear area).

Oakes standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter.

Ron Oakes was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in March 1949. After briefly attending junior college, he enlisted in June 1967 and received training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot and Camp Pendleton, California. He then received instruction in the…

After returning from Vietnam in 1969, Ron Oakes married, earned a degree in electronics and traveled around the Midwest working. Eventually, he and his family moved back to Michigan, where Oakes joined the National Guard. As part of the Guard, Oakes…

Oakes' superiors and Iraqi commanding general with assistant at a dinner at FOB Q-West in September 2005

Oakland Class US light cruiser USS Fresno, October 1, 1947.

Oakland class, US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.

Oakland class, US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.

Oakland class US CL (light cruiser), October 1, 1947.

Herbert Heinrich in single rowboat. In the background, a docked doubles rowboat with male spectator on left side.

Black and white photograph of a group of eight women in a rowboat. Each has a long oar. In the boat next to them are several men.

Obed López-Zacarias is founder of the Latin American Defense Organization (LADO), that organized for a caseworker union and for the dignified treatment of welfare recipients at the Wicker Park Welfare Office of Chicago. LADO was also instrumental in…

Black and white photograph of a ladder with two adjustable legs over a measuring grid square on sand. Part of a camera ladder rig system developed by Merrill for taking overhead photographs of archaeological excavations. A cottage is visible behind…

Black and white photograph of a ladder with two adjustable legs over a measuring grid square on sand. Part of a camera ladder rig system developed by Merrill for taking overhead photographs of archaeological excavations. A cottage is visible behind…