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Salute to Veterans 8 D — DAILY COURIER, Grants Pass, Oregon • SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018 SALUTE TO VETERANS T.J. Burris Leonard E. Leach William E. Turrell A.E. “Tex” Schroeder Robert L. Orey Winifred Paris U.S. Navy U.S. Navy U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Force U.S. Navy U.S. Women’s Army Corps Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Metalsmith 2nd Class Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Master Sergeant Staff Sergeant Petty Officer 2nd Class Private 1st Class Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: 1950-1956 Four 1958-1967, 1980-1997 1950-1954 1950-1954 Two years during World War II Where served: Where served: USS Grainger; Where served: North Carolina; Where served: Okinawa; Where served: Korea; Japan; Where served: Missouri Korea USS Crook County; USS Florida; California; Nevada Louisiana; Texas; Colorado USS Boxer; USS Yorktown; Vesuvius; Korea and all over the California Pacific Luz Briseno Amos E. Voorhies Stanley Olds A.R. Eidson U.S. Army Oregon National Guard U.S. Air Force U.S. Army Ed Putman Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Orin Eugene Kailey Jr. Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: U.S. Navy Sergeant Captain U.S. Navy Airman 2nd Class Specialist 4th Class Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Years of service: Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Years of service: Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd World War II 1899-1903 Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Four 1972-1975 Class Where served: Philippines Where served: Oregon Years of service: Where served: California; Where served: Germany Years of service: 1966-1972 Panama 1950-1954 Where served: USS William R. Where served: USS Hornet; Rush; USS Horne; Tennessee; Florida Mediterranean Sea; Rhode Island; Maryland; Pennsylvania; California Edward “Jack” Hirtzel Earle E. Voorhies Wesley F. Jarred U.S. Army U.S. Army Air Forces Stephen F. Watson U.S. Army Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: U.S. Navy Highest rank achieved: Corporal Major Highest rank achieved: Private 1st Class William C. McDonald Jr. Years of service: Years of service: Operations Specialist 2nd Class Years of service: U.S. Navy 1956-1960 1943-1946 Years of service: 1952-1954 Highest rank achieved: Where served: Germany Where served: New York; Charles A. Bowers 1995-2012 Where served: Korea Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1st Massachusetts; Georgia; U.S. Air Force Where served: USS Abraham Class Pennsylvania Highest rank achieved: Lincoln; USS Mobile Bay; USS Years of service: Master Sergeant Cowpens; Washington; Virginia 2001-2014 Years of service: Where served: Global War on 1955-1975 Terrorism Where served: Japan; Germany; Iran; Iceland; Fiji; Okinawa; Thailand; Taiwan Edward P. Preisendorfer Robert L. Jarred U.S. Army U.S. Army Highest rank achieved: John E. Voorhies Highest rank achieved: Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army Air Forces William Glenn Taber Private 1st Class Years of service: Highest rank achieved: U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Army Years of service: 1951-1971 Corporal Highest rank achieved: 1953-1954 Ralph Detloff Where served: Korea; Years of service: Corporal Where served: Washington U.S. Coast Guard Vietnam; Alaska; California 1944-1946 Years of service: Highest rank achieved: Where served: Washington; Arlie Gene Hogue 1947-1953 Petty Officer 2nd Class California; Wisconsin U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy Where served: Germany Years of service: Highest rank achieved: 1969-1973 Petty Officer 2nd Class Where served: California; Years of service: Virginia; Bering Sea 1952-1974 Where served: Nevada; Vietnam; USS Richmond K. Turner; USS Braine; USS Robison; USS Jonas Ingram; USS Bausell David W. Fuller Richard C. Moulders U.S. Navy U.S. Navy Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Bert Bales Claudell King Seaman 1st Class Senior Chief Electrician’s Mate U.S. Navy U.S. Air Force Years of service: Years of service: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: 1956-1961 1952-1973 Pharmacist Mate 2nd Class Sergeant Where served: Cambodia; Roger Bills Where served: Vietnam; West Years of service: Years of service: Laos; Vietnam; Taiwan; U.S. Navy Coast 1942-1945 1953-1957 California Highest rank achieved: Where served: LST beachhead Where served: Libya; Texas; Aviation Storekeeper 3rd Class hospital ship; Guadalcanal; Illinois; California Years of service: Philippines; New Guinea; 1950-1954 Borneo Dennis G. Eckstein Where served: East Coast U.S. Marine Corps patrol squadron Highest rank achieved: Private 1st Class Years of service: 1957-1963 Where served: Japan Paul Robinson Jon Covey U.S. Army U.S. Air Force Highest rank achieved: Bob Hague Highest rank achieved: Private U.S. Navy Sergeant Years of service: Allan Edward Wytcherley Highest rank achieved: Years of service: 1948-1949 U.S. Army Petty Officer 2nd Class 1964-1968 Doris Clark Where served: Washington Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Where served: South Carolina; U.S. Naval Reserve WAVES Corporal 1964-1968 Tennessee Highest rank achieved: Howard Cochran Years of service: Where served: Vietnam; USS Not submitted (no photo submitted) 1953-1956 Oriskany; USS Hancock; Steve Boal Years of service: U.S. Army Air Forces Where served: Germany George W. Sidley California (no photo submitted) World War II Highest rank achieved: U.S. Navy U.S. Army Where served: Maryland Technical Sergeant Steve Johnson Highest rank achieved: Clifton Dunham Highest rank achieved: Years of service: (no photo submitted) Petty Officer 1st Class (photo not submitted) First Lieutenant James Roberts 1943-1945 U.S. Army Years of service: U.S Air Force Years of service: (no photo submitted) Where served: 31 B-17 Highest rank achieved: 1955-1974 Highest rank achieved: 1969 U.S. Navy missions over Europe Specialist 4th Class Where served: USS Glennon; Not submitted Where served: Vietnam, killed Highest rank achieved: Years of service: USS Luce; USS Everglades; Years of service: in action Petty Officer 1957-1959 USS Camden; USS Uhlmann; Seven Years of service: Where served: California; USS Francis Hammond; Where served: Riverside, Three Hawaii Pennsylvania; Washington California Where served: Japan.
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