Among the Wisconsin heroes featured in Kristin Gilpatrick's first book The Hero Next Door® are: Jim Geach (Hurley), an 82nd Airborne paratrooper who won The Distinguished Service Cross during the D-Day Invasion and later won the Silver Star in Holland; Jim Church (Portage), an infantry engineer who survived the Battle of the Bulge and later helped design the Apollo spacecraft that put Americans on the moon; Gerald & Archie Sanderson (Elroy) brothers who fought valiantly in Europe, one on the ground, the other in skies above. |
Ernie Tresch (Oregon), a bomber pilot who became the pilot for future president and Allied leader Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower the last year of the war; George Kinsler (Tomahawk), PBY flying boat gunner who helped rescue downed pilots in the Pacific; John Topolski (Milwaukee), B-24 radar operator who survived 29 hours alone in the Indian Ocean; Glen Hanusa (Monona), a Navy officer who met President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Russ Kohloff, (Beloit) a 5th Division Marine who survived the bloody sands of Iwo Jima; Garvin Kowalke (Baraboo), a B-29 bomber pilot who flew a weather reconnaissance mission for the bombing of Hiroshima and named his bomber for his hometown; and Eugene Skaar (Cottage Grove), an Army maintenance man who fought the Japanese in the Philippines. Clyde Stephenson (Appleton), Pearl Harbor Shooter. |
Welcome to The Hero Next Door® |
Welcome to the Web site for the non-fiction books by war history author Kristin Gilpatrick. |
Ernie Tresch (Oregon), a bomber pilot who became the pilot for future president and Allied leader Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower the last year of the war; George Kinsler (Tomahawk), PBY flying boat gunner who helped rescue downed pilots in the Pacific; John Topolski (Milwaukee), B-24 radar operator who survived 29 hours alone in the Indian Ocean; Glen Hanusa (Monona), a Navy officer who met President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Russ Kohloff, (Beloit) a 5th Division Marine who survived the bloody sands of Iwo Jima; Garvin Kowalke (Baraboo), a B-29 bomber pilot who flew a weather reconnaissance mission for the bombing of Hiroshima and named his bomber for his hometown; and Eugene Skaar (Cottage Grove), an Army maintenance man who fought the Japanese in the Philippines. Clyde Stephenson (Appleton), Pearl Harbor Shooter. |
CONTACT US Kristin Gilpatrick, The Hero Next Door® P.O. Box 6132 Monona, WI 53716 |
Among the Wisconsin heroes featured in Kristin Gilpatrick's first book The Hero Next Door® are: Jim Geach (Hurley), an 82nd Airborne paratrooper who won The Distinguished Service Cross during the D-Day Invasion and later won the Silver Star in Holland; Jim Church (Portage), an infantry engineer who survived the Battle of the Bulge and later helped design the Apollo spacecraft that put Americans on the moon; Gerald & Archie Sanderson (Elroy) brothers who fought valiantly in Europe, one on the ground, the other in skies above. |
