Despite the U.S. not being at war, the fall of France and the Low Countries in June 1940 triggered a far-reaching American military mobilization effort.
PLATTSBURGH — Jacqueline Stewart, a retired Plattsburgh City Schools history teacher and genealogist, has researched Staff Sgt. Benjamin Barnard Bromley for the Stories Behind the Stars Project, whose mission is
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Benjamin Bernard Bromley s grandnephew, Jacob Woodward, and Plattsburgh researcher and genealogist Jacqueline Stewart try to uncover what happened to Bromley over the Bay of