Montana Yesterday

admin | December 6, 2011

Charles Dowd joined the U.S. Navy in January 1941, shortly after he turned 17. But he didn’t do it to fight in a war. “Never thought of it,” said Dowd when Missoulian photographer Michael Gallacher and I sat down with him Tuesday at his home in Anaconda. Dowd, a Pearl Harbor survivor, comes to Missoula [...]

Category: 1940s, Aviation, Commemorations, Historic presentation, history milestones, War, World War II | 1 Comment »
Tags: 1941, Anaconda, Artie Shaw, Bennie Goodman, Fort Missoula, Glenn Miller, Manchuria, Montana, Pearl Harbor, Rape of Nanking, Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History, War in the Pacific, World War II