Arkansans Behind The Flag

Our museum tells stories using a lot of artifacts, but sometimes we do it through pictures. And this time, we are highlighting a picture of Henry Glenn Tipton.

Born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, at the beginning of the “Roaring Twenties”, Robert G. “Bob” Abb was destined to make his mark on American and aviation history.

Harvey Dwight McCarty (according to the Air Force) was born in Texas but has decided that Fayetteville, Arkansas, is his home now.

Born November 12, 1922, in New York, “Chilt” had no idea that he was destined to be a part of the “Greatest Generation”.

This week, I had the exciting opportunity to interview Dolores and Nadine Sawak, the only daughters of George Sewak, a marksman who served in the army during the Second World War.