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BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Born on April 18, 1914 in Fort Scott, Kansas, William Deane Hawkins had a tough start in life. When he was a young baby, a neighbor accidently upset a container of boiling water over him. Not only was he scarred for life but it would be a year of hard [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Joseph E. Muller was born on June 23, 1908, at Holyoke, Massachusetts. While doing the research for this article, I discovered an interesting fact: Holyoke, with a population of less than 40,000 has produced three Medal of Honor recipients. Muller was in his early thirties when he joined the U.S. [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Anund Charles Roark was born in Vallejo, California on February 17, 1948. He joined the Army in Los Angeles, California. In 1968 Roark was serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division in the Republic of Vietnam near the city of Kontum. Roark was the point [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Born in February 1919, Grant Frederick Timmerman hailed from Americus Kansas, a small Kansas town in Lyons County Kansas. Timmerman attended Emporia High where he graduated in 1936. While in High School he played saxophone. He also learned how to write and speak French and Russian, a talent that must [...]
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. [...]
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