Untold stories of Mexican-American veterans of WWII

[Miss Neecerie]

A very interesting page of stories and pictures of Local California WWII vets.



http://www.sgvtribune.com/mexicanveterans

Worth reading their stories.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

The Aztec Eagles

http://ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2002/12/stuff_eng_velasco_p47.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escuadr%C3%B3n_201

I've often thought that a great tribute to these Eagles would be a re-enactors group of Hispanic-Americans. There is a lot of history there.

Looks like a movie is in the works: http://www.hispanicvista.com/HVC/Opinion/Guest_Columns/040207Fguest.htm

-dixon cannon