FU Heroes
Bud Day - FU Hero
George “Bud” Day was born in Sioux City, Iowa in February, 1925. He dropped out of high school at 17 to join the Marines in 1942 and spend almost three years in the Pacific until the end of World War II.Read More >
Harold Bauer - FU Hero
Harold William Bauer was born in Woodruff, Kansas, and grew up in North Platte, Nebraska. He played football, track and baseball in high school and entered the Naval Academy in 1926 where he was dubbed “Indian Joe” due to his height, high cheek bones and dark complexion.Read More >
Charles Nungesser - FU Hero
Charles Nungesser was the kind of man that heroes are made of. He was an adventurer, a racecar driver and an ace fighter pilot.Read More >
Jimmy Doolittle - FU Hero
Jimmy Doolittle was born in Alameda, California and spent his youth in Nome, Alaska. After attending Cal Berkley, he entered the U.Read More >
Tex Hill
David Lee “Tex” Hill. Like many young American men a generation before, who traveled to France to join the Lafayette Escadrille, Tex Hill volunteered to fight on foreign shores well before his own country would enter a World War.Read More >