This defile is named for a series of skirmishes between Indians and Emigrants on the Oregon Trail, August 10, 1862. Nine whites were killed, and six more were wounded. As the traveler speeds through this opening in the rocks, he seldom thinks of...
World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Theater--Personal narratives. --Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Personal narratives.
In his December 2001 interview with Brian Allen and Dustin Peters, Leroy Khontopp offers his memories of World War II. Khontopp served in the U.S. Navy from 1939 to 1945, training in the United States and serving in the Pacific Theater on a naval...