Entered service Clarksburg, West Virginia Service Branch U.S. Army serving with the 7th Army, 397th Regiment, 100th Infantry Division. http://www.100thww2.org/index.html Active service 9-1942 to 3-1946 Decorations The unit received the Presidential Unit Citation and soldiers of the 100th Infantry Division earned Medals of Honor, 36 Distinguished Service Crosses and over 500 Silver Stars for valor in combat. To preserve the esprit de corps and fellowship forged in their grueling training and six months of bitter combat, the men of the Division formed the Association of 100th Infantry Division in 1946 and have held annual reunions ever since. Remarks In 1942 - 1944, I was located in Cincinnati, Ohio for 19 months during a period in which we were inducting 1000 men each day. In 1944 I was assigned to a Combat Infantry Regiment making tank traps and preparing for a December 1945 assignment to Japan but plans changed. For the period May 8, 1945 until July 1945, I was guarding displaced persons in Germany. In July, I was stationed in General George Patton's Headquarters to write the history of the war in Europe. I was discharge in April1946.

Entered service Dyersburg, Tennessee Service Branch U.S. Army. http://www.army.mil/ Active service 3-1958 to 3-1960

Entered service Washington, DC Service Branch U.S. Navy Supply Corps. http://www.navsup.navy.mil/pls/p5star/ p5star.home Active service 1944 - 1946 Reserve service 1946 - 1951 Remarks Member of the Joint Purchasing Board, Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand.

Entered service Wills Point, Texas Service Branch U.S. Marine Corps http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/ mcn2000.nsf/frontpagenews Active service 3-1958 to 3-1960

Entered service Beaver Crossing, Nebraska Service Branch U.S. Marine Corps serving with Marine Air Wing 14, Cherry Point, NC. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ facility/cherry-point.htm Active service 8-1951 to 8-1953 Reserve service 8-1953 to 8-1959 Inactive Marine Reserve Remarks Service time included 3 months on board USS Bennington (CV 20). http://www.uss-bennington.org/ Employed by USDA 1954 - 1984 with ASCS in Kansas City.

Entered service Fredericksburg, Virginia Service Branch U.S. U.S. Army National Guard. http://www.arng.army.mil/ Active service 1960 - 1966 Reserve service 1960 - 1966 Details Completed service with the rank of Sergeant.I have been a member of OPEDA for many years. I retired from the Department of Agriculture in November 1994 after 15 years of service in the Department of Defense and 15 years in the Department of Agriculture.

Entered service Casa Grande, Arizona Service Branch U.S. Army. http://www.army.mil/ Active service 4-28-1953 to 4-29-1955

Entered service Mountain City, Tennessee Service Branch U.S. Naval Reserve. Active service 7-27-1948 to 7-26-1949 - USS Midway (CV 41). http://cv41.org/ Reserve Officer Candidate Training Summers of 1952 and 1953. 8-14-1953 to 8-13-1955 USS Jeffers (DMS 27). http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ sh-usn/usnsh-j/dd621.htm Active service 8-14-1948 to 10-1-1973 U.S. Naval Reserve. Retired with the rank of Lt. Commander, 1973. Decorations National Defense Service Medal. Remarks My Dad, U.S. Army, 1920 - 1924, advised me after I graduated from high school in 1948 to join the Navy's program to build up the Naval Reserves (1 year active and 6 years reserves). I served my active duty in the Fire Control Division on the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV 41) operating out of Norfolk, Virginia. With the help of Berea College for my undergraduate degree, I was accepted for the Reserve Officers Candidate Program (ROC), commissioned in 1953 and served my second tour of active duty on the destroyer minesweeper USS Jeffers (DMS 27) operating out of Charleston, South Carolina. She was decommissioned in 1955. I enjoyed two deployments with the 6th fleet in the Mediterranean - the first tour on the USS Midway, 1948, and then the USS Jeffers, 1952-53, and was onboard the USS Midway when the first jet plane landed on an aircraft carrier. Supported by the GI Bill and a research assistantship from the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University, I earned my Masters, 1957, and Ph.D., 1962. I held a joint teaching and research positions at the University of Delaware, 1960 - 1967, and a three way appointment at North Carolina State, 1968 - 1971 (teaching, research and extension). I then joined the Economic Research Service, USDA, (and OPEDA) and retired in1992. I participated in EPA's Senior Environmental Employment Program (SEE) from 1994 until 2003.

Entered service Jacksonville, Texas (Navy) and Uvalde, Texas (Army) Service Branch U.S. Naval Reserve, Pharmacist's Mate and U.S. Army, First Lieutenant. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ agency/navy/navresfor.htm http://www.army.mil/ Active service 5-1944 to 11-1946 (Navy). 5-1951 to 10-1952 (Army). Remarks I retired from the Soil Conservation Service in 1986 and am a Life Member of OPEDA.

Entered service Harrisonburg, Virginia Service Branch U.S. Army serving with Medical Company 6th Infantry Regiment. http://www.army.mil/ Active service 3-11-1954 to 2-10-1956 Reserve service 4 years - 1 month - 19 days Remarks Served as Medical Aid in Berlin, Germany, for 1 year, 2 months and 18 days.

Entered service Plankinton, South Dakota Service Branch U.S. Army. http://www.army.mil/ Active service 9-22-1946 to 5-28-1947, Pacific Theater of Operations - Korea. 3-20-1952 to 2-20-1954, 533rd Engineering Aerial Photo Reproduction. http://members.aol.com/famjustin/ Skodabio.html Active service 8-30-1945 to 9-21-1946, Army Specialized Training Reserve Program, Brookings, South Dakota. 2-21-1954 to 8-28-1958, Inactive reserves Decorations World War II Victory Medal Army Occupation Medal -- Japan Army Occupation Medal National Defense Service Medal Remarks I enlisted in the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program shortly after graduating from high school and was assigned to the ASTRP unit at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. My active duty assignment in 1946 - 1947 was as a Clerk Typist in South Korea. I returned to South Dakota State University in the fall of 1949 and completed my BS Degree in Agricultural Engineering in the spring of 1952. Shortly after graduating, I was "drafted" into the Army and assigned to the 533rd Engineering Aerial Photo Reproduction Company in Germany - stationed first at Wiesbaden and later at Kaiserslautern. The 533rd was a mobile unit equipped to process aerial photos in the field. I was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant during this assignment. My civil service career began with two years of service, 1947 - 1949, with the Federal Bureau of 0Investigation in Washington, District of Columbia. After separating from the Army in 1954, I accepted an appointment as an Agricultural Engineer with the Soil Conservation Service - USDA in South Dakota. I returned to South Dakota State University in the fall of 1956 and completed my MS Degree in Agricultural Engineering in January 1958. I accepted a research appointment with the Agricultural Research Service - USDA, first as the U.S. Salinity Laboratory at Riverside, California - and later at the Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory at Mandan, North Dakota. I retired in 1986 with 36 years of service. Since retiring from civil service, I have been privileged to serve as a Consulting Engineer on several agricultural water-management projects in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan.

Entered service Milltown, Indiana Service Branch U.S. Army Reserve. http://www.armyreserve.army.mil/ usar/home/ Active service 11-1959 to 7-1968

Entered service Eleva, Wisconsin Service Branch U.S. Army serving with the 29th Engineering Battalion. http://29thinfantrydivision.com/ usar/home/ Active service 4-6-1954 to 3-16-1956 Remarks I was a Topographic Map Compiler in Tokyo, Japan.

Entered service Placerville, California Service Branch U.S. Army Air Corps, West Coast Training Command, 77th Squadron, 435th Troop Carrier Group, 9th Air Force European Theatre Operations. http://www.armyairforces.com/forum/ m_55484/tm.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ agency/usaf/9af.htm Active service 3-30-1942 to 10-31-1945. Service outside the U.S. 11-28-1943 to 7-4-1945. Reserve service 2-16-1943 to 9-20-1977 serving in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, 1501ft Air Transport Group, Travis AFB. Decorations Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters. European, African, Middle East Theatre Service Medal. Presidential Unit Citation. Remarks Joseph Flynn was employed by the US Forest Service from August 1931 until December 1941. He worked in several positions including laborer, fire fighter, warehouseman, forest guard, lookout-fireman, fire crew foreman, CCC foreman, and CCC camp superintendent. While attending the University of California, Davis, for three semesters, he completed Civilian Pilot Training (CPT) at Davis. He applied and was accepted for Aviation Training at Mather AAB and enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on April 3, 1942. After completing training on February 6, 1943, he was commissioned as a pilot at Luke AAB, Phoenix, Arizona. There he completing trained for flight instructor, taught two classes, one of which was Chinese, and was then moved to Troop Carrier Command. He departed Ft. Wayne, Indiana and flew a C-47 to England via Brazil, Liberia, Morocco, arriving in England in early December 1943. He flew with the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the D Day landings and in the invasion of Holland in September 1943. The Division re-supplied the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in December 1943. He was moved to an Air Base just south of Paris in February t945. After D-Day the unit transported ammunition and supplies to troops and evacuated wounded from the battlefields to hospitals. Later they supplied the 3rd Army (General Patton's) with tank gasoline in his drive across Germany and evacuated liberated prisoners of war to France. After V-E-Day, he returned to the US by the same route traveled to get to Europe, arriving in Savannah, Georgia on July 4th 1945. He entered Oregon State College, graduating June 1947, and returned to work with the Forest Service in California. He retired in 1974 in San Francisco as Region 5 Deputy Regional Forester,

Entered service Norwich, Connecticut Service Branch U.S Army Medical Corps. http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/medicalcorps/ Active service 5-22-1952 to 5-12-1954 Details Basic trainings at Camp Pickett, Virginia and Medical Corpsman training in Japan. I served as a Medical Corpsman in Pusan, Kosido Island and Demilitarized Zone, Korea. Discharged at Fort Dix, New Jersey.ss

Entered service Kansas City, Kansas Service Branch U.S. Air Corps serving in England with the 95th Bomb Group. www.95thbg.org Active service 10-7-1942 to 10-8-1945 Decorations European-African-Middle Eastern Theatre Campaign Ribbon with 6 Bronze Stars, Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross Awards given by the State of Missouri, Award for Patriotic Service, Jubilee of Liberty Award (D-Day) Remarks I entered service as an Aviation Cadet and received training at the Navigation School at San Marcos, Texas. I graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Corps and was assigned to the 95th Bomb Group Heavy) in England as a crew navigator on B-17 aircraft. I completed 35 missions and remained with the 95th Group in S-2 Intelligence briefing radar navigators. I was recalled to service in 1950 and served on an Instructor Crew training B-29 crews at Randolph Field, Texas. Achieved the rank of Captain. Work Experience 1945 - 1947 Partnership on the 320 acre family farm 1947 - 1950 Instructor for Veterans Agriculture Program sponsored by Plattsburg High School, Plattsburg, Missouri 1955 - 1959 Balanced Farming Agent, Cooperative Extension Service, Clinton County, Plattsburg, Missouri 1959 - 1965 County Extension Director and Agricultural Agent, Cooperative Extension Service, Harrison County, Bethany, Missouri 1966 - 1971 Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, College of Agriculture, University of Missouri with a joint appointment with the Extension Service and Resident Instruction 1971 - 1984 Served as Chairman of the Extension Education Department and Director of Graduate Studies. Served as Major Advisor for 83 Master's candidates which included international students from 23 countries. 1975 - 1976 Served on an 8 month Special Assignment with the Federal Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. beginning on October 1,1975 1979 - 1982 Served on the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Extension. August 31, 1984 Retired from the Extension Service. 1984 - 1991 Field Representative (part-time) for the Independent Study Department, University of Missouri, contacting high school counselors Co-author of the textbook, "Adult and Continuing Education Through The Cooperative Extension Service", published by the Extension Division, University of Missouri, October 1984. Co-author of "History of Department of Extension Education", Special Report 396 by the University of Missouri, October 1989. Retired - 1991

Entered service Weston, West Virginia Service Branch U.S. Army serving with the 4th Infantry Division - 12th and 22nd Regiment. http://www.4thinfantry.org/home.html Active service 11-10-1950 to 12-22-1952 Reserve service 12-1952 to 2-1957

Entered service Center Line, Michigan Service Branch U.S. Army Air Corps. http://www.acmedepot.com/keepemflying/ aac.shtml Active service 1-8-1942 to 12-21-1945

Entered service Moultrie County, Illinois Enlisted January 1943, after completing first semester of freshman year University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Service Branch U.S. Army Air Force, Weather Service. http://www.armvairforces.coni/ Active service 2-10-1943 to 2-23-1946 Remarks The following "Chronology of William Howard Heneberry's WWII service was prepared by Bill's family to share with OPEDA members. 1943 February Enlisted in the US Army Air Force and left home (farm in Moultrie County) for Chicago Induction Center February 9 Arrived Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois March 1 Arrived Jefferson Barracks, Missouri for basic training. April 1 Began Pre-Meteorological training at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri May 15 Returned to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri after dropping out of Pre-Meteorology program; took basic training for second time. July 10 Transferred to Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois (closed 1993? as Chanute AFB and transferred to civilian control) for Weather School. Promoted to PFC. October 15 Left Rantoul for Hill Field, Ogden, Utah, after 10-day delay en route which was spent at home on the family farm October 18 Arrived Hill Field for first assignment as Weather Observer. October21 Promoted to Cpl. November 16 Transferred to Army Air Field Palmdale, California. Took the train to Sacramento and then the train to Palmdale, a tiny agricultural community then. The airfield was 3 miles away. The buildings had been part of a CCC camp before the war. Leaky buildings, latrine & laundry in one building (laundry was one wringer machine). Dad mentioned dust and sand blowing into & through the Palmdale buildings. The "airfield" was a paved strip w/control tower, weather station & small motor pool building. It was a sub-base of Muroc, now Edwards AFB. www.miUtarymuseum.org/AFPIant42.html 1944 April 28 Transferred to Metropolitan Airport weather station in Van Nuys CA. August 17 Letter from a friend, "lucky to be working nights at Lockheed". A fellow observer from Van Nuys wrote "remember how hard we tried to fix up the Van Nuys station with sheets of plywood?" May not be significant, but evidence of poor construction and maintenance of those buildings. October 15 Transferred to Fourth Air Force HQ weather station, 494th Street, San Francisco, California. October 19 Transferred to Radio School, Asheville, North Carolina. November 10 returned to Fourth Air Force HQ weather station, 494th St. San Francisco California. During his service in California, he had free time and so also worked in the Lockheed airplane factory in Burbank a shipyard in San Francisco, California. 1945 March 27 Transferred to Camp Kearns UT for overseas training after delay en route in Illinois. April 27 Arrived Camp Stoneman, California and embarked overseas. Letter from "Somewhere at sea" dated 27 April says "we were on a smaller boat for a while, then transferred to this one". May 9 Arrived Camp Aiea, Hawaii. May ?? Depart Camp Aiea. Letter dated May 13 says: "Stopped in the Marshalls and the Carolines but can't say what specific islands". (censorship rules, no doubt) Poem dated "3 weeks out from Hawaii" - "The Boys of [Shipment] 867" (the Robin Doncaster?). June 12 Arrived 22nd Replacement Depot, Manila, Philippines. July 15 Transferred to FEAF (abbr for Far East Air Force?) Weather Control, 20 Weather Squadron, Ft. McKinley, Luzon, Philippines. August 25 Transferred to Binmaley, Pangasinan, Philippines. Letter dated Sep 8: "at Lingayen Gulf for two weeks, waiting for boat"; on [the 6th], I flew back to Nichols Field in C-47, came back [on the 8]. Letter dated Sep 11: "have to go to Aomori, Honshu [Japan] on an LST (Landing Ship Tank)". Letter dated Sep 16: "went to airstrip for belly tank from P-38... making a couple of boats (one rowboat and one with an outrigger & sail)". Letter received in Illinois in late September includes photograph of an LSM (Landing Ship, Mechanized) "in harbor at Okinawa" and a description of 2nd Army Air Force Weather Station. Sepember 30 "beach at San Fabian. ..one of the engines caught fire.. .load from our LSM was divided among other four LSMs" "35 LSMs in convoy". October 11 Arrived Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. October 13 Arrived Army Air Force Weather Station, Chitose, Japan. November 15 Promoted to Sgt. 1946 Jan _? Departed Hokkaido for Tokyo & Tokyo for U.S. via ship (name unknown). Feb _? Arrived Camp ?Anya? San Pedro, California. February 20 Arrived Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. February23 Discharged. The Battle(s) of California (Copied verbatim from WHH handwritten notes) In the fall of 1942, I was a newly-promoted corporal at Hill Field, near Ogden, Utah, some _ miles from Salt Lake City. It was my first assignment as a weather observer, preparing data for the forecasters, and I expected to be there for a long time. But in late October or early November, I received orders to transfer to Palmdale, California, along with Cpl. Louis Rosenfeld, an older (probably early 40's) guy from the NYC area. My fellow observers were congratulating us on being able to "spend the winter in California." I knew very little about California and what I "knew" turned out to be wrong. I was expecting warmer sunny weather, lush vegetation, and of course seeing Hollywood, /where most of/ the motion picture capital of the world. What I saw was cold weather and high mountains as our train went thru Dormer Pass. But then we descended into the Central Valley and stopped at Sacramento, the capital of California, where we were to transfer trains for the trip to Palmdale. Sacramento at that time was a beautiful city, and we walked all over town, spending all day, and getting caught in an unexpected rain. People said, "Our California Sunshine is coming down in bucketfuls." It was the first time I had ever seen palm trees, as well as many flowers and other plants that were new to me. In the evening we boarded another train and headed south toward Palmdale. We knew nothing of the area, and were shocked to see the contrast with Sacramento when we arrived at the "whistle stop" station in the desert just before dawn. Palmdale was a farming community which /of an/ appeared to be about the size of Dalton City (home community in IL, Pop. about 400) , and we sat in the cold outside the station, griping about our situation and hoping that the airfield would be a better place. But we were disappointed again. A jeep pulled up about an hour later, and we drove the 3 miles or so into the desert to a cluster of tarpaper shacks dilapidated buildings that was to be our home. The airfield was nowhere in sight. The buildings had been part of a CCC camp before the war. The weathermen were housed in one of these buildings, along with the control tower operators, perhaps 20 men in all. There was a mess hall, the base headquarters, a PX, a theater, and the all-purpose building which housed the latrine and laundry facilities. The "laundry" was one wringer-type washer. As an old farm boy, I was not unfamiliar with outdoor plumbing and the lack of more modern living conditions, but until then I had been used to the well-constructed barracks, and central heat in the other camps and airfields where I had served. The deep dust and sand which blew thru the buildings, and the absence of any plant life added to the depressing scene, and I complained bitterly in letters to family, friends, and buddies from previous tours of duty. The "airfield" turned out to be a paved strip a mile or so into the desert with only the weather station, control tower, and a small motor pool building. Palmdale was a sub-base of Muroc, which (later) is now known as Edwards Air Force Base.

Entered service Fort Collins, Colorado and Long Beach, California Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the 44th Infantry Division (9-1944 to 6-1945 ETO). www.military.com/HomePage/UnitCreatedPage /0,11003,100034,00.html Active service 8-11-1942 to 11-15-1945 Remarks Combat Artillery HQ Battery 44th Infantry Division with duty in France, Germany and Austria.

Entered service East Carbon, Utah Service Branch U.S. Navy serving on board the USS Antietam (CV 36). http://www.ussantietam.com/ and USS Salisbury Sound (AV 13).http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ ships/AV/AV-13_SalisburySound.html Active service 8-1948 to 7-1952 Reserve service 1951 - 1952

Entered service Clarksdale, Mississippi Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the Combat Engineers. http://www.answers.com/topic/combat-engineering Active service 2-25-1942 to 5-21-1946 Reserve service 6-15-1938 to Remarks I was in the invasion forces in Japan.

Entered service Madisonville, kentucky Service Branch U.S. Naval Reserve serving on the LCFF 1080 and LST 708. http://www.navsource.org/archives/ 10/160708.htm Active service 7-1-1943 to 6-18-1946 Remarks Joined the Navy V-12 Program and located at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky http://www.berea.edu/alumni/navyv12/ default.asp Midshipman School at Columbia University in New York Served in the South Pacific aboard LST 708 and LCFF 1080 during World War II.

Entered service Alhambra, California Service Branch U.S. Air Force serving with 6th Combat Cargo Squadron and the 15th Weather Squadron. http://www.comcar.org/2nd_ComCar/ 6th_comcar_sqd_homepage.htm Active service 12-1941 to 3-1946 Remarks Meteorologist and pilot with the 6th Combat Cargo Squadron and the 15th Weather Squadron, Far Eastern Air Force, Manila, P.I. flying C-46 and C-47's.

Entered service Fairfield, Texas Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the infantry http://www.army.mil/ Active service 3-19-1951 to 3-14-1953 Decorations Bronze Star. Remarks First Lieutenant in the Infantry. Served as Company Commander in Korea and received the CIB - Bronze Star.

Entered service Stanley, Kansas Service Branch U.S. Army serving with the Headquarters and Base Service Squadron, 31th Army Service Group, 314th Company WG http://39th.org/39th/ground/31stasg/ 31stasgmain.htm Active service 2-10-1945 to 12-11-1946 Reserve service 10-28-1946 to 1964. Remarks I graduated from Stanley High School, Stanley, Texas, in May of 1945. I completed high school in 3 ½ years by taking a correspondence course so I could be drafted into the army on February 10, 1945. After completing paper work at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, I traveled by train to Camp Roberts, California, for infantry training. I qualified for Sharpshooter with the M-1 on April 27, 1945. Upon completion of basic training, I was sent to Fort Hood, Texas, for advanced infantry training. I was unable to complete training because within 8 days I was shipped to Fort Ord, California, for the long boat ride to Leyte on the U.S.S. Ocage. I served for 6 months at the Headquarters 13504th Squadron, 1350 Engineers, as K-P supervisor of Japanese prisoners assigned to the kitchen. I was paid an extra $40 a month on that assignment. Moved to Guam on February 10, 1946, and assigned to the Headquarters 314 Bomber Wing, 20th Air Force. I earned an extra $35 per month as projectionist at the base outdoor theatre while worked as a clerk typist in the Special Services Office checking out sports equipment. Lieutenants Morris and Farrell were in change of the office. I met my high school buddy, Kenny Burke. An April typhoon on Guam destroyed most of the buildings. I was shipped to Saipan on October 15, 1946. Returned to North Field on Guam for the flight to Camp Beal, California. I was promoted to Corporal on November 1, 1946 by the Commanding Office of Headquarters 31st Air Service Group as Clerk Typist, MO-405. I was discharged on October 28, 1946 and enlisted in the Air Force Reserves. I retired as a Staff Sgt. in September1961. I attended college at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, from 1948 to 1952 under the GI Bill. I joined the Soil Conservation Service, USDA, at a salary of $1954. In July 1967, I was assigned as a Soil Conservationist, GS-9, and transferred to Brown County, Kansas. I received additional training in Hiawatha, Kansas, and transferred to the Troy Field Office as a District Conservationist on June 16, 1968. I retired from the Soil Conservation Service, USDA, on January 3, 1984. I married Charlene M. Vance on October 18, 1950, and moved into a new Overland Trailer. Trailers were popular as housing units for married students. We have three children - Mark, Dennis and Eric. We currently live on a 90 acre farm about 2 miles east of Troy, Kansas, and have 13 cows and a bull on the farm. In addition, we have a 95 acre farm in the CRP Program with 15 acres in the Forestry Program. We have enjoyed all our years together and the wonderful things we have done. We made a trip to Okinawa, Japan in 2004. This year, 2005, we are traveling to Finland to visit the 11 young people we have hosted over the years through the Lions'Youth Exchange Program.

Entered service Pattonsburg, Missouri Service Branch U.S. Army Infantry serving in COE 39th Infantry. http://www.army.mil/ Active service 11-11-1944 to 8-6-1946 Decorations Army of Occupation Medal. European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. Good Conduct Medal. World War II Victory Medal. Remarks Don was a BAR man.

Entered service Shickley, Nebraska Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the Military Police Corps. http://www.branchorientation.com/ militarypolice/profile.html Active service 8-1952 Reserve service 3-1953

Entered service New Rockford, North Dakota Service Branch U.S. Air Force serving in the 10th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/cgi-bin/quiz.pl/ ind/srind.htm Active service 3-1953 to 8-1957 Reserve service 8-1957 to 3-1963

Entered service Iselin, New Jersey Service Branch U.S. Navy serving with the Blimp Squadron ZP 32. http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/ index.html Active service 4-7-1942 to 4-6-1948 Reserve service 2-5-1948 to 2-4-1953 Inactive Duty Remarks I was trained as a metalsmith but volunteered for the Blimp Squadron and became an airship rigger. I logged over 2500 hours in the air.

Entered service Washington, District of Columbia Service Branch U.S. Navy serving at the Naval Ammunition Depot, Seal Beach, California. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ facility/seal_beach.htm Active service 8-1944 to 7-1946

Entered service Waterfort, Maine Service Branch U.S. Army serving with Company D, a Shore Battalion in the 544th Special Engineering Brigade of Amphibious Engineers. http://www.geocities.com/ armysappersforward/ Active service 2-1943 to 1-1947 and 2-1951 to 6-1952 Remarks My name is Richard H. Marston, class of 1950 at the University of Maine. I was a Corporal in the U.S. Army during WWII and served with company D of the Shore Battalion in the 544th Special Engineering Brigade of Amphibious Engineers. I drove the amphibious truck known as the Duke. The mission of our regiment was to land an infantry division on a hostile shore. The regiment was made up of a boat battalion, a shore battalion and a headquarters company. I participated in three invasions in the South Pacific during my service. One was at Moratie, a small island north of New Guinea, another was Linggaion Gulf, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines and on a beach in Japan after the war was over. We built an airfield on Moratie for bombers returning from bombing runs in Borneo to refuel and get needed repairs. After the war was over, we went into Japan and landed on a beach, as if it were an invasion. Our motor sergeant went home and I was promoted to motor sergeant and soon was on my way home. Time of service was from February 1943 to January 1947. I entered the University of Maine in July of 1947. I met my wife to be at a square dance that summer at the university. While at the University of Maine I enrolled in the ROTC program to earn extra money so I could visit my wife to be, Lois, who was teaching school in Springfield, Maine. We were married in August of 1949 and I graduated in February of 1950. I was recalled into the U S Army in February of 1951 as a second lieutenant and assigned to the 544th Engineer Construction Company at Fort Devens, Maine. My most interesting project involved taking my platoon to the U.S. Military Academy on the Hudson River in New York State. We reconstructed an old horse stable into an exhibition hall. It was an interesting place and interesting work. I was released from the army after being promoted to first Lieutenant about June of 1952 and returned to Brockton, MA and went back to work for the Soil Conservation Service. In about a year, I was transferred to New Jersey, where I spent the rest of my career with SCS, now the Natural Resource Conservation Service, and retired in June of 1980 after 30 years plus of service.

Entered service Hebron, West Virginia Service Branch U.S. Naval Reserve serving on the USS Waterman (DE 740). http://www.desausa.org/images/ uss_waterman.htm http://www.historycentral.com/navy/DE/ Waterman.html Active service 6-12-1943 to 12-12-1945 Remarks Served aboard the USS Waterman (DE 740) in the south Pacific from the Marshall and Gilbert Islands to the surrender and occupation of Japan. I was a Fireman First Class.

Entered service New Castle, Delaware Service Branch U.S. Air Force, Delaware Air National Guard. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ agency/usaf/166aw.htm Active service 2-1-1951 to 5-15-1952 Reserve service Delaware Air National Guard from 7-1-1948 to 1-31-1951 and 4-15-1953 to 2-14-1954 Remarks I enlisted in the Delaware National Guard in 1948 and transferred to the Air National Guard 6 months later. There I attended drills and summer camp while learning about inspecting propeller driven and jet aircraft. On 2-1-1951 our unit, the 142nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron, was called to active duty for service during the Korean War. Our mission was to become a part of the Continental Air Command. Much of our duty consisted of standing alert with our pilots and aircraft at the ready to intercept unidentifieds which, at most, were aircraft off schedule or without flight plans. On 5-15-1952 our unit was deactivated and I was discharged from the Guard. I returned to the University of Delaware to finish my degree in agriculture but re-enlisted in the guard in 1953 to work as a Civilian Guard Technician performing the same work as I did on active duty. A year later I began a career in agriculture, earning a Ph.D. in agriculture in 1962 from the University of Maryland. I went to work as a research scientist with the USDA in Maryland and later in West Virginia. I retired in 1980. I then moved to Idaho and worked for the University of Idaho and again retired in 1987. Since then, I have been self-employed as a tree farmer and co-owner of GEM Barry Products, Inc., a specialty food processor and wholesaler. I married Betty Colvin in1960. We have a son, a daughter and 5 grandkids.

Entered service Humboldt, Tennessee Service Branch U.S. Army Air Corps. http://www.acmedepot.com/keepemflying/ aac.shtml Active service 9-13-1943 to12-14-1945 Reserve service Air Force Reserve 1956 - 1964 Remarks Served as a Mechanic on B-17 Bombers - "Flying Fortress" - in World War II http://www.aviation-history.com/ boeing/b17.html

Entered service Des Moines, Iowa Service Branch U.S. Air Force. http://www.af.mil/ Active service 2-1953 to 12-1954 Reserve service 12-1954 to 12-1965 Remarks Aircraft Controller stationed in Japan, first at Wagima and then at Niigata Air Base.

Entered service Atwater, Minnesota Service Branch U.S. Navy. http://www.navy.mil/ Active service 11-1942 to 2-1946

Entered service Susquehanna, Pennsylvania Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the Artillery. http://sill-www.army.mil/ http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/ Active service 8-27-1952 to 8-18-1954

Entered service Anniston, Alabama Service Branch U.S. Army Air Force serving as an instructor in the Electrical Systems Branch of the A&E Mechanics School at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi. http://www.keesler.af.mil/ Active service 1-5-1943 to 2-11-1946 Details I was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Force at Fort McClelland on December 29, 1942 and entered active service on January 5, 1943 at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia. I was assigned to Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi for basic training. After completing basic training I attended A&E Mechanics School for B-24s at Keesler. After finishing the A&E course I was assigned as an instructor in the Electrical Systems Branch of the school. I was stationed at Keesler Field for my entire service career except for an assignment during the month of November 1945 at Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin. I was promoted to Corporal late in 1945.

Entered service Algood, Tennessee and sworn in at NRS in Chattanooga, Tennessee Service Branch U.S. Navy serving with COM PHIL SEA FRON, R/S 3149, at the Ship Repair Base, Navy 3864, and on board the USS Talladega (APA 208). http://www.navsource.org/archives/ 10/03208.htm Active service 1-20-1945 to 8-20-1946 Decorations Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Ribbon Victory Medal Philippine Liberation Ribbon American Campaign Medal Details I was drafted from Algood, Tennessee to Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia. I was transferred to Chattanooga, Tennessee and sworn in as a member of the U.S. Navy. I received boot training at the Great Lakes Training Center (Company 87) and radio operator training at the Radio Operator School on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Division 75). I was assigned to the R/S 3149 in the Philippines, first as a Radio Operator and as a Yeoman in the Personnel Office, serving there for eight months. I then transferred to the USS Talladega (APA 208) for a mission to China to transport troops back to the States. I was discharged upon completion of the delivery of troops.

Entered service Corning, Ohio Service Branch U.S. Air Force serving in the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). http://members.aol.com/SamBlu82/mats.html Active service 8-1950 to 9-1953 Remarks My service started with enlistment in late August 1950. A couple of months earlier I had graduated from Ohio University with a BS in Botany. Meteorology was one of the subjects that I had concentrated on at OU and I decided that that education could be useful in the Air Force. After I had completed processing and completed basic training, I was assigned to Weather Observer School at Chanute AFB, at Rantoul, IL. While in that training program I applied for Officer Candidate School. When the program was finished I was placed on an overseas roster and sent to New Jersey for further processing before being shipped overseas. Since I had not heard from the OCS application I assumed I was going overseas. However, during one of the many "bull sessions" that GIs engage in, someone said that those with applications pending couldn't be shipped out until they were turned down for OCS. Checking with Personnel this proved to be true. So l spent a few weeks pulling "casual" duty - KP, and general types of assignments, while waiting for an answer. When the answer came it indicated I has been accepted for the OCS class starting July 1, 1951. That was still several months away, so I was assigned to the Air Force Research Center at Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts. Parts of the Center were very secure due to the work underway there. I remember walking down a hallway, looking into rooms where men with heavy German accents were working on model rockets. In early 1951 that didn't mean much to me. Later I realized that l had been near the birth of our space program. After completing the six months OCS course I was assigned to Westover AFB, near Holyoke, Massachusetts. There I served a few months as a Squadron Adjutant in a Communications Squadron, then a few months as a Supply Officer with the Food Service Squadron for the Base. In August of 1952 1 was sent to Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya. While at Wheelus I was assigned to the Military Personnel Office at Base HQ. I had a variety of responsibilities in that office. Wheelus had been a small Italian fighter base when we got it at the end of WWII. It served as a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) base for a few years, and when I arrived it was being convened to a SAC base. The Korean War ended the summer of 1953, and officers with non-critical Specialties were being released from active duty. I departed Wheelus in late August 1953, having recently made 1st Lt. The same week that I left, the first B-47 flew in to Wheelus. The strategic purpose of Wheelus as a SAC base was very obvious during the "cold war" years.

Entered service Jesup, Georgia Service Branch U.S. Army Air Force, U.S. Army Reserves, North Carolina National Guard, and Illinois National Guard. http://www.af.mil/ http://www.arng.army.mil/ Active service 10-13-1943 to 10-18-1945 USAAF Decorations 04-1947 to 06-1948 UAFR 06-1948 to 03-1950 USORC 03-1950 to 03-1955 NCNG 03-1955 to 07-1972 ILNG 07-1972 to 10-1980 USAR 10-15-1985 LTC USA-Retired Remarks I enlisted in the Army Air Force (AAF) while at the University of Georgia during my first quarter as a sophomore. I was sworn-in on October 14, 1943 and the next day I celebrated my 18th birthday. I was assigned for basic training, beginning on 12-13-43, to the Miami Beach AAF Basic Training Center. In February 1944 I was moved to Sebring AAFB where our ranks were thinned when volunteers and other service members that had requested assignment to the AAF were assigned to Operation Overlord. The remainder of my group was sent to the College Training Detachment at Clemson College for 3-month. Then, we were sent to the B-17 Transition School the USAAF Base, Turner Field, Georgia, another "holding location", until December1944 when we were transferred to San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. Halfway through the training period, I reported to sick call where a stomachache was diagnosed as appendicitis. This episode and associated recover time put me a month behind in my training sequence. President Roosevelt died in April 1945 and Germany surrendered shortly thereafter. I finished Preflight Training and was transferred to Randolph AFB, across town from SAACC, now Lackland AFB (high above Kelly Field). A few of my classmates were assigned to B-29 for Flight Engineer school and a few were sent to navigator school. Since I had no pressing duties I proposed to my college sweetheart (at U of GA). My request for leave was approved and we were married in Athens, Georgia on June 20, 1945. We returned to San Antonio in July and set up house keeping in a rented room with kitchen privileges. This arrangement provided just what we needed, very nice accommodations. We attended a movie in downtown San Antonio (The Picture of Dorin Grey). We exited the theatre and found ourselves in a large and excited crowd that had gathered in the streets. We asked what was going on and were told that Japan had surrendered. I soon decided that I should leave the Air Force and continue my college training. I was discharged in October 1945 and returned to the home farm in Jesup, Georgia to planted and harvest a crop. I returned to the University of Georgia where I received my BS in Agricultural Engineering in August, 1948. I participated in the ROTC Program and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army. Upon receiving my commission, I was automatically a member of the Army ORC. I decided to pursue a higher degree and was accepted at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. In September 1948 my wife Faye, daughter Carol, and I checked in at Michigan State University and I began my studies in the Department of Agricultural Engineering. We soon had accommodations and I was pursuing a Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering. I graduated in June 1949 and was restless and anxious to find a job. A visiting Engineer with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) spoke at our graduate student seminar about the research he was conducting in the Agriculture Research Service. He was based in Beltsville, Maryland with research units working in cooperation with land grant state universities. I looked at opportunities in my home area, Southeast Georgia, and accepted a research position in agricultural engineering in ARS. My initial assignment on joining ARS in August, 1949 was Oxford, North Carolina working on a Tobacco Curing research project. I also requested assignment to the North Carolina National Guard 30th ID to continue my reserve affiliation. In March 1955, my research assignment was changed to the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station where I participated in a cooperative multi-disciplinary project on reducing the chore labor in livestock production. Also, I transferred to the Illinois National Guard 33rd ID. I completed my career at the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station while adding a son, Hoyle Jr., and a daughter, Kristina Susan. I transferred from the Illinois National Guard and returned to the US Army Reserve. I did a bit of research related foreign travel to Europe and to Russia. My wife, Faye, and I have returned to Europe several times on business and personal travel. I retired from the US Civil Service in August 1985 and the US Army in October of 1985. We sold our country home and land and moved into a condominium in September of 1990.

Entered service Morgan, Utah Service Branch U.S. Navy Amphibious. http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ ships/ship-lha.html Active service 8-1943 to 5-1946 Reserve service 5-1946 to 6-1981

Entered service Columbia, Missouri Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the 4th Armored Division. http://www.military.com/HomePage/ UnitCreatedPage/0,11003,100082,00.html Active service 12-4-1958 to 11-22-1960 Reserve service 1-1961 to 1-1963 Remarks Served in West Germany from 7-1959 to 11-1960 with the rank of Specialist 4.

Entered service Lyman, Nebraska Service Branch U.S. Army serving with the 100th Infantry Division. http://www.100thww2.org/index.html Active service 4-12-1943 to 2-16-1946 Reserve service 2-16-1946 to 3-16-1950 Decorations Awarded 3 Bronze Stars and my Company received 2 Presidential Unit Citations Remarks Participated in 175 continuous days of front line combat with the 100th Infantry Division in the Vosges Mountains of France and Southern Germany. I was surrounded 3 times.

Entered service Pratt, Kansas Service Branch U.S. Army Air Corps. http://www.acmedepot.com/keepemflying/ aac.shtml Active service 12-13-1942 to 4-14-1944 Aviation Cadet. Received my Wings as a pilot and Commissioned at Marfa Texas Army Air Force Base. 4-15-1944 to 11-22-1945: Served in the Troop Carrier Command and Air Transport Command. Discharged as a 1st Lieutenant. http://members.aol.com/SamBlu82/atc.html Reserve service Inactive reserve for 7 years Decorations Air Medal American Theatre Service Medal European, African, Middle Eastern Service Medals Remarks After completion of the Air Corp Cadet Program, I was a pilot with the Troop Carrier Command in Italy. I arrived in Italy in November 1944, and assigned to the 64th TC Group, 35th Squadron. Our principal missions were to drop supplies to partisans fighting behind the lines in Northern Italy and carryout air evacuation of the wounded to the base hospital in Rome. After the war ended in Europe, the Group was sent to the Caribbean and transferred to the Air Transport Command. As part of the Green Project, we helped to move troops from Europe back to the States that were expecting to be sent to Japan. I was stationed in Puerto Rico.

Entered service Grand Island, Nebraska Service Branch U.S. Navy serving aboard the USS Brooklyn (CL 40). http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ sh-usn/usnsh-b/cl40.htm Active service 9-2-1942 to 9-26-1945 Remarks W. K. "Bud" RYNEARSON, Firecontrolman 3rd Class, USNR, was born 27 May 1921 at Madison, Nebraska. He entered the U.S. Navy through the Naval Reserve Program on 2 August 1942 and received the Navy Oath with a group from Nebraska at the Admiral Theater in Omaha, NE, which went on to form Company # 903 at the Naval Training Station, Greet Lakes, Illinois. Upon completion of training, he was ordered to duty on USS BROOKLYN (CL 40), then at Norfolk, VA, in October 1942 where he was assigned with the "F" Division. His duty was that of Range Finder Operator and he also worked in the Optical Repair Shop. In August 1945 he was ordered to advanced Fire Control School, Washington, DC, where he was held for duty until his discharge on 24 September 1945. Bud married Endryce "Dee" Carr at Grand Island, NE, on 28 April 1943 while on leave from the USS BROOKLYN. She was employed at the Cornhusker Ordinance Plant. From January until September 1945, she resided in Brooklyn, NY, and was employed in Manhattan while the ship was under-going overhaul and modernization. After discharge from the U.S. Navy, they returned to Lincoln, NE, where he returned to work with the U.S.D.A-S.C.S. as a Civil Engineering Technician. Later he was transferred to Ainsworth, Nebraska, where they have made their home near the Sandhills since 1947. It was here that "Dee" returned to teaching school. Both are now retired from Public Service. His Naval medals and decorations include those awarded to the USS BROOKLYN and her operations while he was assigned to her. He is active in the B.P.O. Elks and served as the President of the Nebraska Elks Association, followed by four years on the Elks Grand Lodge Youth Committee. He is presently serving as Chairman of the USS BROOKLYN Association Sunshine Committee. Dee recalls the day of the crash of the B-25 into the Empire State Building, on 28 July 1945, and "Bud" remembers well removing the Mark 14 gun sights from the 20 mm gun mounts on the bow of BROOKLYN during times when the smooth, blue Mediterranean was kicking up white water.

Entered service Tarboro, North Carolina Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery. http://www.tsj.net/avstats/aaa.html Active service 1942 to 4-1946 Reserve service 1946 to 1965 Decorations His unit earned two battle stars. Details I entered service in 1942 from Tarboro, North Carolina, my hometown, as a volunteer officer candidate and completed basic training at Camp Wallace, Texas. I began Anti-Aircraft Artillery School at Camp Davis, Holly Ridge, North Carolina in November of 1942 and graduated in February of 1943 as a Second Lieutenant. I was assigned to the 558 AAA AW Battalion at Camp Davis for training and also trained at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, at a Louisiana maneuver area, and at Camp Polk and Camp Hulen in Texas. I was shipped overseas in October 1944 as a First Lieutenant serving as Executive Officer of "D" Battery in the 558 AAA AW Battalion. My unit earned two battle stars and was deactivated in Germany following the end of the War in 1945. I was assigned to another AAA AW Battalion in a unit slated for service in Japan. The Bomb was dropped and I remained in Europe for another 6 months. During that period I attended the Army University in Biarritz, France for some 3 months. Upon completing the course I was assigned to assist in sending troops and war brides home from Camp Phillip Morris, a redeployment camp in vicinity of Le Havre, France. My Battery Company was in charge of 12 mess halls that fed an average of 1000 troops at mess hall. I came home in April of 1946 and enrolled at North Carolina State College under the GI Bill. Seven years later I graduated with a PhD in Economics. I was employed by the Farmer Cooperative Service in USDA and retired as Assistant Administrator for Cooperative Development in February of 1972. While at NC State I enlisted in The North Carolina National Guard. I retired from the Guard in the District of Columbia in 1965 as a Lt. Colonel in charge of the DC Selective Service Unit. I immediately began an assignment as an advisor to Minister of Agriculture in Ethiopia. Following the two year assignment I came home and began a series of consulting jobs that took me to 24 foreign countries over an 18 year period. I retired in 1993 at 80 years of age. Notes Job Savage is a long time member of OPEDA, a past board member, and President of OPEDA from 1960 to 1962. He recently published his book, "TARBORO to KATMANDU" that is available on the web at www.authorhouse.com. Also check with your local bookstore. AuthorHouse is the world leader in publishing and print-on-demand services. Founded in 1997, AuthorHouse has helped more than 20,000 people worldwide become published authors. Most people don't expect to emerge from a small, two-room rural schoolhouse to wander the four corners of the earth. Then again, Job Savage is not most people. Written in conversational style and adorned with scores of pictures, Tarboro to Katmandu captures Savage's unusual and colorful life and places it in the hands of people for the world to enjoy. This is a book of memories and contains a synopsis of his military career in a major section of the book.

Entered service Valley City, North Dakota Service Branch U.S Army. http://www.army.mil/ Active service 10-13-1966 Reserve service 7-26-1968 Remarks One year in the jungles of Vietnam.

Entered service Clarksburg, West Virginia Service Branch U.S. Army serving with the 3rd Army Division, Food Service, Fort Knox, Kentucky HQ 310 Fascom. http://www.knox.army.mil/ Active service 5-22-1954 to 5-21-1957 Reserve service 5-22-1958 to 5-22-1981 Remarks Served as Head of Food Service at Fort Knox, Food Service Officer in the Reserves, and also served as Mortuary Affairs Officer in the Reserves.

Entered service Watonga, Oklahoma Service Branch U.S. Army serving in several units: Company B, 469th QM Truck Regiment; 3662nd QM Truck Company; 48th QM Battalion (Mobile); 450th Military Government Company; 450th Civil Affairs Group; 354th Civil Affairs Area (B) Headquarters and Headquarters Company; 352th Civil Affairs Area Headquarters (a); and 352nd Civil Affairs Command. http://www.military.com/HomePage/ UnitCreatedPage/0,11003,109224,00.html http://www.soc.mil/News/releases/ 04DEC/041216-01.htm Active service 6-6-1942 to 4-24-1946 Reserve service 4-24-1946 to 1975 Decorations American Campaign Medal, awarded 1946 Armed Forces Reserve Medal, awarded 1964 Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, awarded 1946 World War II Victory Medal, awarded 1946 Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, awarded 1972 United States Army Meritorious Service Medal, awarded 1975 Philippine Liberation Medal, awarded 1978 Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation Badge, awarded 1995 Remarks My favorite war story occurred when I was on vacation at my parent's home in Watonga, Oklahoma, when a telephone call came for Colonel William E. Shaklee from the 352nd Civil Affairs General Officer Command in Riverdale, Maryland. I was informed that I was one of three colonels out of 40 colonels in the Command that had been nominated to be promoted to Brigadier General to replace our Commanding General who had been promoted out of his position. I was instructed to travel to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to get an official photo made in uniform. To make a long story short, one of the other colonels was selected for the promotion, but he asked me to be his Chief of Staff. I continued as Chief of Staff until I retired. Notes I have written two booklets about my military service. The first is 237 pages about my active duty service, "1st Lt. William E. Shaklee: A Veteran of World War II". Two copies are in the Library of Congress with its catalog card number 98-224564. The second is 265 pages about my US Army Reserve service, "Col. William E. Shaklee: U. S. Army Reserve". Two copies also are in the Library of Congress with its catalog card number 2001335196. Active Duty Stations and Activities * Commissioned 2nd Lt. from Reserve Officer Training Corps, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 14 May 1942. * Entered Active Duty 6 July 1942 at Enid Army Basic Flying School, Enid, Oklahoma. Officer's Replacement Training Center, Fort Francis E. Warren, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 4 August 1942 to 7 November 1942. * Assigned to Company B, 469th QM Truck Regiment, Camp Maxey, Paris, Texas, 7 November 1942 to 31 October 1943. * En route overseas 1 November 1943 to 19 November 1943. Camp Hargrove, Sydney, Australia, 19 November 1943 to 26 November 1943. Camp Freeman, Brisbane, Australia, 26 November 1943 to 19 January 1944. Served with the 3662nd Quartermaster Truck Company, Finschaffen, New Guinea, 23 January 1944 to 13 June 1945 followed by Manila, Philippine Islands, 13 June 1945 to 22 October 1945. Served with the 48th QM Battalion (Mobile), Manila, Philippine 3/8/2005 Islands, 22 October 1945 to 6 January 1946. En route to Fort Leaven Worth, Kansas, 6 January 1946 to 30 January 1946. Separated from Active Duty on 25 April 1946. Reserve Duty Stations and Activities Oklahoma City Military District, Eighth Service Command, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from 26 April 1946 to 30 October 1946. Iowa Administrative Service Group, Des Moines, Iowa, from 31 October1946 to 30 September 1948. Illinois Administrative Service Group, Urbana, Illinois, 1 October 1948 to 2 March 1950. Organized Reserve Corps, Military District of Washington, Fort Myer, Virginia, from 3 March 1950 to 21 October1953. Member of the 450th Military Government Company, Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia, from 21 October 1953 to 28 March 1963. Member of the 300th Civil Affairs Group, Riverdale United States Army Reserve Center, Riverdale, Maryland from 28 March 1963 to 1 September 1963. Member of the II United States Army Corps Control Group (Reinforced) Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island 5, New York, from 1 September 1963 to 13 July 1964. Member of the XXI United States Army Corps Control group (Reinforced), Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Annville, Pennsylvania, 13 July 1964 to 13 September 1964. Member of the 354th Civil Affairs Area Headquarters B, Andrews Air Force Base United States Army Reserve Center, Maryland, 13 September 1964 to 9 February 1968. Member of the 352nd Civil Affairs General Officer Command, Prince Georges County Memorial United States Army Reserve Center, Riverdale, Maryland, from 9 February 1968 to 8 July 1975. I retired 8 Jul 1975 as Chief of Staff, 352nd Civil Affairs General Officer Command.

Entered service Racine, Ohio (Meigs County) Service Branch U.S. Navy serving in the 141st CB Battalion. http://www.seabee.navy.mil/ Active service 10-1943 to 4-1946 Remarks From 1944 to 12-1945 I was stationed in Hilo, Hawaii and Kawajalein in the Marshall Islands. The 141st CB Battalion was a heavy construction battalion building air bases and other permanent structures such as hospitals. I was trained as a crane operator and spent most of my time operating shovels and draglines. We saw no action.

Entered service El Paso, Texas Service Branch U.S. Navy serving on board the USS Stephen Potter (DD538). http://www.steaminsteve.info/ Active service 10-28-1943 to 12-09-1945

Entered service Wooster, Ohio Service Branch U.S. Naval Reserve. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ agency/navy/navresfor.htm Active service 9-10-1942 to 10-20-1945 Remarks Served in the European, Mediterranean and Pacific Theaters during World War II. I resigned my Ohio Vocational Agricultural teaching position in order to enlist in the U.S. Naval Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. Included in a group of "boots", I was assigned to Pensacola Naval Air Station, the first group so stationed in WWII. I served with the flying boat squadron while waiting for my commission to come through. Upon receiving my commission and proper indoctrination, I attended several communication schools and was assigned as Convoy Communications Officer. Operated out of several East Coast ports, we transported troops, mail, aviation fuel, and freight to various European and Mediterranean ports. After eighteen months of "sea duty", I was being prepared for South Pacific advanced base duty. While in Hawaii and shortly after the "A-Bomb" attack, I was assigned to Hiroshima, Japan, as the Director of Port Communications. With only eight hours remaining prior to shipping out, I gained a sufficient number of points to earn release from active duty. I accepted promptly and returned to the States via the old carrier "Saratoga". I vividly remember passing under the Golden Gate Bridge on the trip back to the states. I then joined the Soil Conservation Service and I am now retired.

Entered service Rozel, Kansas Service Branch U.S. Coast Guard with the rank of Ph. Mate 1st Class. http://www.uscg.mil/USCG.shtm Active service 5-1942 to 10-1945

Entered service WW II - Alcester, South Dakota Korea - Kadoka, South Dakota Service Branch U.S. Army serving during WW II with the 102nd Evacuation Hospital. http://www.military.com/HomePage/ UnitCreatedPage/0,11003,108057,00.html Served in Korea with the Medical Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. http://www.7th-inf-div-assn.com/ Active service 12-8-1941 to 2-0-1946 and 3-12-1951 to 9-19-1952 Reserve service 4-3-1948 to 4-20-1948 and 10-1-1949 to 10-17-1949 Details During the Battle of the Bulge, forded to retreat from Ettlebrug, Luxembourg to Huy, Belgium on December 18, 1944.

Entered service Myerstown, Pennsylvania Service Branch U.S. Army 1943 - 44 serving with the 46th Regiment 8th Army Coast Artillery 944 - 46 Served at the Los Angeles Army Quartermaster Market Center. http://www.army.mil/ Active service 7-1-1943 to 6-16-1946 Reserve service 6-17-1946 to 8-4-1980 Remarks After receiving my officer's commission, my duty with the Los Angeles QMMC provided an important service and significant professional experience.

Entered service Island Falls, Maine Service Branch U.S. Army serving with Company "C" 862nd Engineer Aviation Battalion (Special Category Army with the Air Force). http://www.military.com/HomePage/ UnitCreatedPage/0,11003,104391,00.html Active service 8-1946 to 12-1948 Decorations World War II Medal Army of Occupation Medal Remarks I was trained as a Construction Foremen in the United States at AAF Geiger Field, Washington, and was stationed at Erding Airbase, Germany. The purpose of our Battalion was to assist in rebuilding hangers, runways and other facilities that were bombed during World War II. Also, I was involved in building a chapel, theatre, bowling alley, barracks, and mess halls. Memoir of Sgt. William E. Townsend, RA31513738 Company C 862nd Engineer Aviation Battalion Erding, Germany, 1946-1948 My tour of duty with the 862nd Engineer Aviation Battalion began in May 1946, when I arrived at Landsberg, Germany. After a short orientation period at Landsberg, I was sent to join Company C in Erding. The purpose of Company C in Erding was to help rebuild the facilities that were bombed during World War II and to build new facilities on the Erding Airbase. Company C was located in a former German military compound, which was a short distance from the airbase. My training as a construction foreman (059), received in the United States, was of great help in meeting the challenges that were given by Company C. I remember the day I arrived at Company C. The barracks were rather primitive, but livable. Our Mess Sergeant, Carl Brown, provided good meals, even though he had to use dried milk and dried eggs a lot. I shall never forget when we started to receive whole milk later that year. What a nice treat that was. The menus for both Thanksgiving and Christmas were excellent. I also remember the pot-bellied stoves that burned coal that we had to use to heat our humble quarters. Our individual classifications at Erding were varied. Some personnel were truck drivers, jeep drivers, equipment operators, motor pool personnel, carpenters, plumbers, cooks, etc. Others supervised the repair of hangars, the building of runways, pierced planks parking areas, base theatre, chapel, bowling alley, barracks, mess hall, etc. During 1946 and part of 1947, I was personally involved with the repair of hangars 118, 125, and 126. During a part of 1947, Jack Davison, Jean Jones (Cpl. Jones) and I were on TDY at Pfaffenhofen airbase. Our task was to dismantle salvageable hangar doors and girders and to return them on a Tank Retriever to be used in rebuilding some of the hangars at Erding Airbase. Corporal Jones was killed in an auto accident in 1948. This was a sad moment for me because I had worked closely with Jones in the Pfaffenhofen endeavor. We even had a dachshund as a mascot at Pfaffenhofen. I was involved in the construction of the new Chapel by Company C in 1948, the renovation of the post theatre which was later named "Aerotheatre," the building of barracks in 1946, a bowling alley, mess halls. I was involved with the new concrete runway at Fustenfeldbruck, which was built to handle B-29 planes. I remember some of us standing along the runway as one of the B-29's came in for a landing and we were wondering if the runway would hold up under the weight of the plane. It did, and we cheered, and I am sure it was a credit to the 862nd Engineer Aviation Battalion. My tour of duty was not all work. I remember the 862nd Rest and Recreation Center at Schwangau, not too far from Fussen. In the distance one could see King Ludwig's "Neuschwanstein Castle." What a nice place to enjoy the scenery. Also, I remember Company C's swimming hole at Moosburg. We even took along our diving board and platform. After all we were Engineers and should be able to build and repair all sorts of things. In early 1948, I met my future wife, Lilly Joram, in Munich. We were married on December 22nd, 1948 in Island Falls, Maine, and on December 22nd, 1998, we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. In 1967, I had the fortunate opportunity to visit and tour the airbase at Erding, which was by now controlled by the German Air Force, but the United States had a few planes stationed there under the NATO program. I must say that I was very proud of the accomplishments that were made by the 862nd Engineer Aviation Battalion, and particularly those made by Company C. I am very proud to have been a member of Company C and the 862nd Engineers Aviation Battalion. William E. Townsend The memoir was submitted and published in a book on the 862nd Engineer Aviation Battalion entitled "Our Finest Hour".

Entered service St. George, Kansas Service Branch Kansas Army National Guard and U.S. Army serving in the 110th Ordnance Company (Gas). http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ agency/army/arng-ks.htm Active service 11-1961 to 8-1961 Reserve service 3-1957 to 9-1961 and 8-1961 to 3-1965 Remarks Our National Guard Unit was activated when President Kennedy called 550,000 Guards and Reservists to active duty during the Berlin Crisis.

Entered service Ozark, Arkansas Service Branch U.S. Army serving with Battery "C" 937th Field Artillery in the Arkansas National Guard.http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/ national_guard/#IOA http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/home.htm Active service 8-1950 to 3-1952 Reserve service 11-1956 to 2-1968 Decorations Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon Korean Service Medal with four Major Battle Stars United Nations Ribbon Good Conduct Medal. Remarks I joined Battery "C" of the 937th Field Artillery Battalion of the Arkansas National Guard at Ozark, Arkansas. My goal at the time was to earn money to help defray my college expenses. One year later General Douglas McArthur called for some "Long Toms", which is a 155 mm self propelled gun designed to fire some 17-18 miles into the enemy lines. Our unit was selected to fulfill this assignment and we spent the year of 1951 in combat in Korea. I entered active duty as a Private First Class and came home a Sergeant First Class. I declined a battlefield commission, but later accepted a direct commission as an officer and commanded a National Guard Unit for some ten years. Our unit was in four major long battles and received outstanding ratings. Pictures of the unit in battle were pictured in the May 7, 1951 issue of Life Magazine. I received the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon as well as the Korean Service Medal with four Major Battle Stars, the United Nations Ribbon and the Good Conduct Medal. After being discharged, I continued my college work at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas, where I met my wife, Faye. We were married June 5, 1955. I retired in November 1990 from SCS with 28 years of service. Korean War A speech given at the local school The Korean War was called the "Forgotten War" as it came on the heels of World War II, and America was disarming and ignoring the communist threat. On June 25, 1950, the North Korean offensive started from four locations across the 38th parallel into South Korea. During this time, I had graduated from high school, joined the 937th Field Artillery Battalion of the Arkansas National Guard at Ozark, Arkansas, and attended one year of college at the University of Arkansas. During the summer after my first year of college, our Guard Unit got word that it was being mobilized and sent to Korea. The unit had guns, called Long Toms, which were a 155 mm self propelled gun which they needed, plus men who had been trained to fire them to aid in the war. I recently was in Washington D.C. and was able to see the Korean Memorial which had been built over the last ten years. There is a plaque at the entrance that reads: "Our Nation Honors Her Sons and Daughters Who Answered the Call To Defend a Country They Never Knew and A People They Never Met". I thought that was very fitting but, as a nineteen year old boy, I really didn't know where Korea was. I knew from taking geography where China was and where Japan was, but could not tell you exactly where Korea was. I feel quite sure that most of the young men in the unit didn't know either. As I'm sure you all know, Korea is a peninsula in the Sea of Japan between Japan and China, about the size of Utah, and at that time had 45 times as many people as Utah. That September when I had planned to go back for my second year of college, I was on my way to Fort Hood, Texas, for further training with the National Guard. Our unit was there until January. I have a telegram that I sent to my parents asking them to send me money to come home on furlough before we shipped out for Korea. I didn't get to be home for Christmas, but got home the first part of January. As soon as I got back to Fort Hood, we were sent to San Francisco, California, where we got on a troop boat that holds about 500 people to sail to Korea. I shall never forget sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge. I got sea sick as we left the harbor, but soon recovered. It took us 21 days to reach Korea. Our gun was sent over on a freighter. We landed at Pusan, Korea, to regroup and wait on our guns to arrive. The weather was cold, the town was in shambles, the smell was terrible, and there was gunfire at night. We were scared, homesick, and knew that we could be wounded or killed by in filtering enemy. While we waited for our gun to arrive, the situation stabilized, and we spent our time reviewing our assignments on the gun. At the time, I was a Sergeant, second in command of a section of fourteen men. When our guns did arrive, we prepared them for combat, put in on a LST Ship, which is a Landing Craft with a folding ramp where the gun could be loaded and unloaded. We sailed around the end of the peninsula and made a landing at Inchon much like the landings during World War II where ships would sail right up to land, put down the ramp and men and equipment would be unloaded. Our Battery joined two other Batteries and each battery had four guns making a combined total of twelve long tom guns. A letter of the alphabet identified the Batteries and the name of each battery's guns started with that letter. We were Battery "C" and our gun was named "COLONIAL CAVALIER". The others had names, like Battery "A" had a gun named "ABLE'S ACE". After reorganizing, we moved up to combat. It was now February 1951. I would like to give you a little background as to what prompted the war. World War II had ended and Russia ruled North Korea. North Korea and South Korea were one country but were divided by the 38th Parallel which is an imaginary line running through the middle of the country. Russia ruled North Korea and the United States ruled South Korea. North Korea, being under Russia's rule was Communist. The war started on June 25, 1950, when North Korean Troops invaded South Korea. After this invasion, President Truman set in place the doctrine that no country would fall to communism. Three months into the war, the United States and the United Nation troops thought the war was nearly over, but after reaching the Yalu River, the border between Korea and China, a force of three hundred thousand Chinese troops had moved into North Korea and concealed themselves in the mountainous terrain, and attacked the UN forces from the rear. For the next two and a half years of the conflict, trench warfare or battles for hilltops fought back and forth across the 38th parallel. The United Nations was only 5 years old at the time. They sent twenty-two nations to defend freedom and repel the communist aggression. The United States supplied 90% of the troops. Several nations sent food and supplies to help South Korea. China and Russia fought on North Korea's side. Our mission was to assist the South Korean Army in pushing the North Korean Army back across the 38th Parallel. Our Battery moved to the front line on February 15, 1951. I was now Section Chief of the gun crew of 14 men. Our role was to support the ground troops. Our targets usually were Road Blocks, Bridges, Buildings, Military Tanks, Trucks of Supplies, Machine Gun Nest, Concrete Bunkers and Areas where the enemy was attacking our troops. We had some close calls. One time we were warned that our crew was going to be attacked during the night. We stayed awake all night on guard, and the next morning found that the enemy had made a mistake and attacked another unit like ours and thought they were hitting us, and killed all of them. The reason they were wanting to get rid of our unit was because our guns would fire effectively about 15 miles, the distance from Greenwood to Fort Smith, out into enemy territory. The other unit's guns looked similar to our guns but did not have as long a firing range. After several days of being on the front line, we were allowed to retreat and get some rest. During one of these times, I was granted a furlough to go into Tokyo, Japan. This picture is a pencil drawing; a Japanese man drew of me while I was there. I was walking down the street and he approached me asking to draw my picture--I was not at all interested in having my picture drawn, but the people were so poor and in need of money to buy food that I gave him $5.00 to draw my picture. He had only a few colored pencils, and didn't have a black one, so he made my hair brown even though it was black. I folded the picture and brought it home and years later my wife found it and pressed it out and my daughters had it matted and framed. There were many South Korean men who were not in the army but were assigned to the American and United Nation armies. One of these men was named Joe Koncum who was assigned to my gun. He and his family had escaped from the brutal, vicious actions of the North Koreans and had settled in Seoul, Korea. He was thirty-eight years old, and a well-educated man. Although he was a general laborer in our unit, I tried to befriend him and assure him that he was important to us and we appreciated his help. We both found solace and appreciated each other in teaching our native language to each other. For instance, he picked up the military terms quickly and was able to assist us in firing the weapon---terms like "fire mission" which meant firing the weapon, and "march order" which meant that we were moving. At first, I was able to learn Korean language for small, large, hello, how are you, and before we knew it, we were able to communicate quite well. He would do anything he could to assist us. When we were close to a stream, he would take our clothes down to a creek and scrub them on rocks. He was extremely loyal. He took a leave to go home at a time when things had stabilized and I gave him some money to buy food for his family. When he returned he brought me this album, which his family sent me to show their appreciation. They had removed their pictures and I put in a few I had that were taken while I was in Korea. It was heart breaking to see families' homes destroyed, people carrying everything they owned trying to find refuge anywhere they could and the children begging for food. We would save some of our canned rations and candy and throw them out to them as we passed them on our moves. While out in the field we dug foxholes for protection from exploding mortar shells and possibly air attacks. At other times we had cots, which we set up. If we were there for a few days and things looked safe, we would erect a tent. It rained a lot, and our ponchos served as our shelter some of the time. The war ended on July 27, 1953, three years after it started. President Truman did not want a war, so he wanted to call it a "Police Action", but it was a war: One Million Korean Civilians, 54, 246 United States Troops, 628,833 United Nation Troops, and 1.6 Million Communist troops were killed. It was one of the bloodiest wars in history. For it to be called the Forgotten War for about four decades, over the last ten or fifteen years it has been recognized as a very significant war, saving the South Korean people from Communism. Now Korea claims to have more Christians per capital than any other country. On July 27, 1995, in Washington D.C., a memorial was dedicated for the people who served in this hard-fought war half a world away. The Korean War Veterans Memorial honors those Americans who answered the call, those who worked and fought under the trying of circumstances, and those who gave their lives for the cause of freedom. It consists of 19 seven-foot statues of men on what would look like a battleground. On the wall to the entrance of the memorial it reads, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE, and it certainly isn't.

Entered service Dallas, Texas Service Branch U.S. Air Force serving in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. http://www.af.mil/ Active service 7-1966 to 7-1970 Decorations U.S.A.F. Commendation Medal Remarks K. C. Willis of Plainview, Texas, a Soil Conservation Service employee for 20 years, is assigned to the Tulia office and is a recipient of the Federal Employee Point of Certificate. The certificate, signed by Secretary of Agriculture Edward Madigan, states: "ln recognition of your service to the community. Your selfless dedication of time and energy has made a difference in the quality of life in America and has added yet another point of light in the bright galaxy of those who serve others by helping others solve critic problems within their communities." Willis serves on the Austin Heights Community Center Executive Board in Plainview and is a member and chairman of the Human Relations Commission in Plainview. He is active in other areas and has assisted the Tulia Satellite Center.

Entered service East Rochester, NY Service Branch U.S. Army serving in the Veterinary Service. http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/vet/index.jsp Active service 3-1943 Reserve service 2-1946 Remarks Stationed on a farm in Pawling, NY after being stationed at Mitchell Field on Long Island. I made the baseball team there.

Entered service Lake Park, Iowa Service Branch U.S. Air Force serving with the 631st Supply Squadron, NORS. http://www.af.mil/ Active service 7-25-1966 to 7-24-1970 Reserve service 7-25-1970 to 9-24-1972 Remarks F-4 training base for pilots, George Air Force Base, Victorville, California.

Entered service Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Service Branch U.S. Army serving with the 45th Infantry Division. http://www.45thdivision.org/ Active service 8-14-1952 to 6-7-1954 Reserve service 6-8-1954 to 8-14-1960 Remarks Served in Korea from March 1953 to May 1954 with the 45th Infantry Division.