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BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Lewis George Watkins was born on June 6, 1925 in Seneca, South Carolina. He graduated from Greenville High School, South Carolina in 1949. He was a member of the Greenville Police Department when he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on September 12, 1950. After training at Parris Island, [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare was born March 13, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri to Edward Joseph O'Hare and Selma O'Hare. Butch had two sisters, Patricia and Marilyn. When their parents divorced in 1927, Butch and his sisters stayed with their mother Selma in St. Louis while their father Edward [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Don Carlos Faith, Jr., the son of Brigadier General Don Carlos Faith, was born in Washington, Indiana on August 26, 1918. He was found to be medically unfit to attend West Point and graduated from Georgetown University. With America's entry into the Second World War approaching, Congress passed the Selective [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. The USS TICONDEROGA (CVA 14) was first in Vietnam waters in late 1944 when fighter planes from the TICONDEROGA and the USS HANCOCK flew strike missions against enemy vessels in Saigon Harbor. The TICONDEROGA, the fourteenth U.S. aircraft carrier to be built, was on station during the very early years [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Humbert Roque Versace has two connections to Hawaii: he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on July 2, 1937, and his name is engraved on one of the walls in the Courts of the Missing in the Honolulu Memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery Of The Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii. In [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Sergeant Major Allan Jay Kellogg was born on October 1st 1943. He was raised and attended school in Bethel Connecticut. After two years of High School he became bored and restless. Asking his father’s permission to leave school, he was told he could but only if he joined one of [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, Ph.D. On 25 November 1918 a future Medal of Honor recipient was born in Syracuse New York: Robert Howard McCard. McCard earned letters in both football and baseball at his High School. After leaving High School, McCard worked as a bar tender at the Bear Mountain Inn in Iona, New [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Born in Henry, Illinois on 11 September 1901, John Philip Cromwell was graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the Class of 1924. He saw service in Maryland, as well as in several submarines, before achieving command of U.S.S. S-20. By the beginning of World War II he was [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. As a writer who tells the stories of our nation’s military heroes I seldom get the chance to talk with them face to face. Most paid the ultimate price and are no longer with us. Fortunately for me, Lieutenant General Rienzi was one whom I did get to talk to. [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. - Emil Joseph Kapaun was born near Pilsen, Kansas, in 1916 and was raised on a small farm by Bohemian parents, Eros and Elizabeth. He was the first son born to very devout parents. It was obvious from his earliest years that Emil was being called to a Priestly [...]
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