Bits of War: Japanese Aircraft Carriers-- Ernest Childers-- Goldstar Museum in Iowa

From November 22, 2019.

**  Japan is getting aircraft carriers for the first time since World War II.  Two helicopter destroyers are being  modernized into de facto aircraft carriers.

**  Plaque dedicated at Fort Drum (NY) to Lt. Col.  Ernest Childers, the first Native-American to receive the Medal of Honor.  Was a member of Co. C, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.

From Oklahoma and a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation.  Received Medal of Honor for bravery during combat in Oliveto, Italy, in September 1943.

**  The Goldstar Museum at Camp Dodge in Iowa has a new exhibit on Iowans serving in Europe during the war.  More than 262,000 Iowans served during the war and 8,398 were killed.

--GreGen