Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: World War II

  • Monroe’s Connection to the Flag Raising at Iwo Jima

    The famous picture is legendary. A group of Marines after a hard fought battle for the tiny island of Iwo Jima during World War II, strain to raise an American…

  • WWII Soldiers Making a New Year’s Meal

    In honor of Monday’s upcoming Veterans Day, I give you this photo, which includes a Monroe soldier named Arzellous Howard: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8e02776/ . I think the order is wrong and the…

  • German Prisoner of War Camp in West Monroe

    Did you know that during World War II, there was a prisoner of war camp in Ouachita Parish? It sat where the West Monroe Convention Center is now. The facility…

  • Index to the Monroe Morning World Servicemen’s Edition

    This index is for the February 6, 1944 Monroe Morning World Servicemen’s Edition.  In this newspaper, local white men and women serving in the military were profiled with a short…

  • The War Dead of Ouachita Parish

    I am not claiming this to be totally accurate by any means. I have compiled this list from many different sources, right or wrong. I just want a good list…

  • Selman Field Navigation School

    A booklet was recently rediscovered which contains a lot of photos and information on the old Navigation School. If you are interested in the field, you can check it out…

  • Fighting Men of Louisiana Index

    After WWII, a vanity print book was published, highlighting some of the soldiers who had served in that war from Louisiana. It was called “The Fighting Men of Louisiana”. It…

  • A List of Ouachita Parish High School Alumni Who Fell During War

    Back in May, 1945 Ouachita Parish High School’s seniors had a newsletter called the Ouachita Lion. It served as a sort of yearbook since the yearbook wasn’t publishing during WWII.…

  • The Twin Cities Prepare For War

    Imagine the U.S. at war against a country which could send enemy planes to fly over major cities with bombs. That is exactly what the country was facing during WWII.…

  • A Selman Field Navigator’s Letters Home

    The website is called, “The Yap Island Missing Air Crew Project”. In 1943, a young man from the New York, NY named Martin B. Unger was sent for training at…