by Cindy Entriken | May 25, 2020 | Ila's War, Memorial Day, WWII
Memorial Day . . . a day of remembrance Memorial Day has always been a day of remembrance for my family because we’ve had several family members who were in the military. My great aunt, Ila Armsbury, my dad and all my uncles fought in WWII. My cousin, Mike L.,...
by Cindy Entriken | Apr 9, 2020 | 32nd Infantry Division, Ila's War, New Guinea, Oklahoma, Red Arrow Men, WWII
Back in 2014, I started looking for materials about New Guinea. This was before I found James Campbell’s excellent book, The Ghost Mountain Boys, about the 32nd Infantry Division, the Red Arrow Men. The 32nd Infantry Division fought the Japanese across New...
by Cindy Entriken | Mar 6, 2020 | blogging, book writing, humor, Ila's War, Red Arrow Men
So, have you missed me? Did you think I’d fallen off the edge of the earth? Not to put too fine a point on it, but I’ve been gone for a while – five years actually. You may not have noticed – I won’t be hurt if you didn’t because I...
by Cindy Entriken | Mar 29, 2015 | Casa Materna Orphanage, Lincoln Kansas, Methodist Church, war orphans, war orphans of WWII, WWII
Estimates of War Orphans of WWII Approximately 13,000,000 European children became war orphans at the end of WWII.* This is the story of one Italian orphan whom my grandmother supported financially for a time after the end of the war. Grammy and the Methodist Church...
by Cindy Entriken | Dec 10, 2014 | Ila's War, Kansas, Pearl Harbor, World War II Artifacts, WWII
This is the last installment of a four part series about events in the early hours and days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It was originally published on December 10, 2013. Pearl Harbor – three days later December 10, 1941 Since beginning work on Ila’s...
