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BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. George Ham Cannon was born November 5, 1915, in Webster Groves, Missouri. His family moved to Detroit, and Cannon graduated from Southeastern High School in Detroit. He spent some time at the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, before enrolling at the University of Michigan. While he was at university, [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Born on March 12, 1915, in the small farming town of New Ulm, Minnesota, Bianchi was raised on a small poultry farm. He was a sophomore in Ulm High School when his father died and he left school to take responsibility of running the farm. He later completed his high [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Sakuhei and Kuma Ohata had eight children. We all know that parents are not supposed to have favorites; however it was a well-known fact that Allan was his mother’s favorite. The Ohata’s had a small flower garden business and all of the children helped out, but Allan was the only [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Born April 18, 1922, and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Martin O. May graduated from Phillipsburg High School in the class of 1941. May joined the Army after high school and, after boot camp and infantry training, eventually found himself in the South Pacific serving with the 307th Infantry Regiment, [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Henry Schauer was born October 9, 1918, at Clinton, Oklahoma, and he lost his mother, Pauline, when he was six. His father moved to Montana where his grandparents lived. His father had an itinerant life style so Henry lived with his grandparents, Hans and Emma Hanson. The Hanson’s had a [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Gerry H. Kisters was born on March 2, 1919 in Salt Lake City Utah. He moved with his family to Indiana, and it was there he married Nola Eads, had four children and in 1943 joined the Army. On July 31, 1943 Kisters was serving in the 2nd Armored Division. [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Son of a career Air Force officer, Brian Miles Thacker graduated from Utah's Weber State College and was commissioned in the Army through the ROTC program. Thacker joined the Army in 1969 at Salt Lake City, Utah. It took less than two years for Thacker to reach the rank of [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. William E. Hall was born in Storrs Utah on October 31, 1913, and was raised there. After finishing high school in Utah and graduating from University of Redlands in California, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1938. Hall was assigned to flight training at Naval Reserve Aviation Base, [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. George Wahlen was born in Ogden Utah in 1924. His parents Albert and Doris were salt of the earth hard working Mormons. At age 17, Wahlen trained as an aircraft mechanic and served at Hill Field in Utah, leading five other mechanics as crew chief for the United States Army [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. James Anderson, Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California on January 22, 1947. He graduated from high school and spent a year and a half at the Los Angeles Harbor Junior College. Anderson left college early in 1966 and joined the Marine Corps in February 1966. He was sent to [...]
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