On a recent visit to Iowa my husband Jim found the gravestone of Russell William Volckmann that I have written about several times in this blog. The headstone is located in Springdale Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa (FindAGrave location). There are several Volckmanns buried in the same general area around the General’s headstone. Carol Yates Wilkerson on [...]
MacArthur Left But Volckmann Remained
June 18, 2010 by
Almost everyone from my generation (baby boomers) knows the quote by General Douglas MacArthur wherein he says, “We Shall Return” in reference to when he was ordered to leave the Philippines in 1942 to command allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Command. What you may not know is that many men under his command didn’t [...]
AMERICAN GUERRILLA: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann Book Now Available
May 2, 2010 by
In my article about Russell Volckmann MacArthur Left But Volckmann Remained it was mentioned by Luis Mendoza in the comments that I might want to order the newest book about him and I did just that. The newest book is: AMERICAN GUERRILLA: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann- the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, [...]
