A Local Rhodes Scholar – Louis H Sugg – Seventh Rhodes Scholar from MCHS

Louis Herbert Sugg was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1948. He was a Lieutenant, J. G., in the U. S. Navy at that time, having graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, class of 1944. He enlisted in the Navy in 1938 right out of high school. Two other Sugg Read More

Leslie Tower – Polson – B-17 “Flying Fortress” Boeing Chief Test Pilot 1935

Largest Bomber In Army Service Through District 16-Ton Ship Soars Over at An Altitude of 12,600 Feet, on Way East. Flying at an altitude of 12,600 feet, the YB-17, largest bombing plane for the United States army, soared over Western Montana Tuesday afternoon on its way to Dayton, Ohio. The Read More

Harry T. Taylor – WW 2 Hero’s Secret Weapon – The Very Pistol

New Secret Weapon Using a new “secret weapon,” Staff Sergeant Harry Taylor of Missoula recently performed a task in the battle for the Siegfried line[1] that American tanks were unable to do, a dispatch from Army headquarters in the European theater indicates. A tank-infantry team from an armored division was Read More

George T. Orvis Jr. – WW2 Bombardier

George T. Orvis Jr. – WW 2 Hero George Orvis was a highly decorated B-17 pilot during WW 2. He was one of dozens of pilots from Missoula in that war and is counted among hundreds, if not thousands, of Western Montanans who also participated. Many of them never came Read More

“Here’s Looking at you, kid.” ‘Swede Nelson’ @ Casablanca 1945

Officer Leads Life of Riley At Swank Mediterranean Hotel, at Least Temporarily Casablanca – city of the beautiful name and fateful history, is no place of romantic memory to Lieutenant Elwood Nelson of the Army air forces, now sojourning – if the word may be permitted – in sunny Tripoli Read More

Lieutenant Bruce Hopper Describes Bombing Germans – 1918

Lieutenant Hopper Tells of Bombing Huns Kaimin – 10/25/1918 (p. 3) https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1490&context=studentnewspaper For more on Bruce Hopper see the following link: http://oldmissoula.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=341:bruce-c-hopper–u-of-m-class-president–sky-pilgrim–americas-1st-bombing-raid–harvard-phd–oss–jfk-teacher–advisor&catid=17:missoula-people&Itemid=3

Two Famous Generals Pass Through Missoula – 1907

Pay Homage To Great General People of Missoula Gather At Station To Greet Baron Kuroki Serenade By The Band Japanese Residents Present Famous Man With Bouquet of Flowers and Souvenir of the City – His Escort, General MacArthur, Delivers Brief Address. General Baron T. Kuroki, the hero of the Russian-Japanese Read More

‘1st Missoula WW I Soldier Back From France 100 Years Ago’ – Christmas Day 1918 – Tom Kelly

First One Back From Overseas Private Tom Kelley, Marine, Is Home From Service in France. Private Thomas Kelley of the United States marines, the first Missoula boy to return home after seeing active service in the trenches in France, arrived last evening on No. 17 on the Milwaukee. He is Read More

Love Proposal From A Gentleman Through and Through – 1914

Love Proposal From Gentleman Through and Through Getchel Receives Regular Love Letter City Has Opportunity To Open Matrimonial Bureau If It Will Not long ago the month-old city administration announced the inauguration of a free employment agency. Now it has a chance to branch into the matrimonial bureau field if Read More

‘Eck’ Mosby – Reluctant Hero

Ellsworth ‘Eck’ Mosby Modest Hero Tells of Winning French Honor on Western Front Americans have heard of war’s modest heroes, how they suffered in hospitals without a murmur of regret. The story of the man who risked his life for his friend, is not new to us. We have read Read More