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May 3, 2025
I’m continuing a blog on most days until mid 2025 following my father’s exploits and adventures during WWII. Each blog will represent what he and the […]
May 2, 2025
Here are the contents of this month’s newsletter: “Get Outdoors!” is my March “Ask Dr. Walt” column in Today’s Christian Living magazine My Father’s induction into […]
April 30, 2025
Until his flight home to the U.S., all Phil could do was keep tabs on the war from his hospital bed in France. It was becoming […]
April 23, 2025
On April 23, Phil received the news his promotion had gone through—he was now a captain [the youngest documented U.S. Army captain in WWII] after having […]
April 13, 2025
On April 13, 1945, Phil chose to write his father, knowing that the news would be painful to bear for his mother.[1]
April 12, 2025
On March 27-28, family and friends gathered in Columbus and Fort Benning, GA, for the posthumous induction of Philip B. Larimore, Jr. (my dad) into the […]
April 11, 2025
I have just posted a one-hour video documentary about my father’s WWII exploits and heroics titled: “The Teenage WWII Hero that Bullets Could Not Stop: The […]
April 10, 2025
For the last two days (parts 1-5 of this series), I ‘ve been posting what was published in the 2022 version of my and Mike Yorkey’s […]
April 9, 2025
When Phil woke up, he had no idea where he was. He felt no pain and wondered for a moment if this was heaven. His blurred […]
April 9, 2025
Phil was roused into semi-consciousness when the medic gave him a shot of morphine, removed the tourniquet, field-dressed his wound, and inserted an IV. McGarr and Abe lifted […]