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Update on the memorial site! We are making great progress. Tomorrow morning I will pick up the final bricks which will be laid at the memorial for the ceremony. Brick will continually be sold and...
The American Legion Post 223 in Higginsville, Missouri in conjunction with the Lafayette County C-1 School District have a memorial for Veterans Located at the flag pole on the High School grounds....
We are getting closer! On the morning of November 11th our event will begin at 0930. We will have a speaker, Bruce Smith, who is Leonard “Tuck” Smiths son. The presentation will be inside the High...
Good Morning Friends and Neighbors. Just wanted to make a post about purchasing a brick for a loved one, I think it would make a wonderful gift for the holidays! I have shared the link here to the...
Leonard B. "Tuck" Smith (October 29, 1915 in Mayview, Missouri – May 16, 2006 in Friday Harbor, Washington) was an American pilot who spotted the German battleship Bismarck prior to its being sunk by British naval and air forces.
British armed forces rallied every resource to avenge the loss, resources that included Ensign Leonard B. “Tuck” Smith of the U.S. Navy, who would have a pivotal role in the sinking of the Bismarck. If Congress discovered he had also sent pilots to Britain, Roosevelt said, “I will be impeached.”
May 16, 2006 · His son, Judge Bruce Tucker Smith of Raleigh, N.C., sent this obituary: Leonard B. “Tuck” Smith. My dad, Capt. Leonard B. “Tuck” Smith, USN (Ret.) of Friday Harbor, died May 16, 2006 after a long decline. He was 90.
