ENCINITAS LITTLE LEAGUE HONORS AND REMEMBERS ENCINITAS’ FALLEN SERVICEMEMBERS.

Jerry T. Archer Emmett L. Booth John O. Brooks Archie M. Buckley Richard B. Cozens Thomas H. Cozens Glen A. Doherty Eunice B. Holcombe 22 May 1944 11 Jul 1967 20 Feb 1944 21 Feb 1945 17 Aug 1944 12 Sep 1942 12 Sep 2012 6 Sep 1943 WWII Vietnam WWII WWII WWII WWII Benghazi, Libya WWII

Melvin A. Johnson, Jr. Walbert H. Kraus William A. Little Jess L. Lux James M. Mitchell Donald R. Petrie William P. Raney Rex A. Steffen 26 Dec 1944 13 Mar 1945 17 Jun 1944 31 Jul 1918 31 Aug 1965 28 Feb 1944 21 Jul 1951 20 Mar 1945 WWII WWII WWII WWI Vietnam WWII WWII JERRY T. ARCHER, 1925-1944 EMMETT L. BOOTH, 1927-1967 JOHN O. BROOKS, 1918-1944 ARCHIE M. BUCKLEY, 1906-1945

Sergeant Jerry T. Archer, U.S. Gunnery Sergeant Emmett L. PFC John O. Brooks served with In 1943 at the age of 36, Archie Army was a graduated with the Booth served with Lima Co M, 3rdBn, 22ndMar Regiment volunteered for naval duty and San Dieguito High School Class of Company,3rd Battalion,1st (Reinforced) 5th Amphibious was assigned to the aircraft 1940. He was killed in the South Marine Regiment,1st Marine Corps, Fleet Marine Force (FMF). carrier, U.S.S. Saratoga. He was Pacific and is memorialized at the Division. Emmett died as a John was killed in action on awarded both the Navy Cross and Manila American Cemetery in the result of a booby trap in Quang Eniwetok Atoll. Bronze Star for his heroism and Jack E. Vaughn . Nam, Vietnam. was posthumously awarded the 23 Nov 1950 Purple Heart. Korea GLEN A. DOHERTY 1970-2012 THOMAS H. COZENS, 1917-1942 RICHARD B. COZENS, 1922-1944 EUNICE B. HOLCOMBE, 1919-1943

Glen was a highly decorated Thomas grew up in Encinitas and entered San Richard graduated from San Dieguito Chief Pharmacist’s Mate Eunice B. SEAL, a warrior and a medical Diego State in 1936. He played guard on the High School in 1940. He attended Holcombe while aboard the USS corpsman: He was a nine-year football team, was on the varsity track team, Washington State for a couple of Little, in the vicinity of the Solomon veteran with combat experience was homecoming chairman in 1941, and a years and then joined the Army Air Islands, September 5, 1942 and was in Iraq and Afghanistan. Glen member of Omega Xi fraternity. He worked Corps. Richard was killed in a training later declared dead, on September took his passion for adventure part-time in his father’s construction company incident. 6, 1943. Eunice is memorialized at and for taking care of others into and was a lifeguard at Moonlight Beach. On 12 the Manila American Cemetery in CIA service as a protective officer September 1942, while in the Army Air Corps the Philippines. beginning in 2005. He deployed flight training program, he and his instructor MELVIN A. JOHNSON, JR. 1925-1944 WALBERT H. KRAUS, 1923-1945 fourteen times with CIA. pilot were killed in an accident near Arabella, New Mexico while on a weather observation PFC Melvin A. Johnson, Jr. served with Corporal Walbert H. Kraus served When the State Department’s mission. It was reported that in trying to avoid the 776 Field Artillery Battalion in with Headquarters and Support mission facility in Benghazi was a storm front their Cessna AT-17 executed a WORLD WAR II and was killed at the Company, 5th Motor Transport attacked on September 11, 2012, sharp, perilous turn through a rain cloud that Battle of the Bulge. Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment, Glen was part of a CIA team that sent the plane into a vertical dive, crashing it 5thvMarin Division, FMF. Walbert mobilized to try to rescue the nose first. Tom and his younger brother, was killed in action on Iwo Jima. staff there, including Ambassador Richard, also killed in an aerial training Christopher Stevens. When the accident, are buried in Ft. Rosecrans National group discovered that the Cemetery. Ambassador was missing, it WILLIAM A. LITTLE, -1944 JESS L. LUX, 1986-1918 JAMES M. MITCHELL, JR., 1940-1965 decided to deploy to the CIA base in Benghazi instead to help Corporal William A. Little served Private Jess L. Lux served with Co. L, James enlisted in the Marine Reserves reinforce that position and with Co L, 3rdBn, 2ndMar, 125TH Infantry Regiment in France. 5 March 1961 and went into active evacuate mission staff. 2ndMarDiv, FMF, Marianas Islands. Jess was killed during the Second duty during the Vietnam War. Served William died of wounds during the Battle of the Marne and is buried at with 2nd Platoon of Delta When Glen’s team arrived, CIA Battle of and is buried at the the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Company,1st Battalion,4th Marine officers in Benghazi had already Manila American Cemetery in the and Memorial Fere-en-Tardenois. Regiment,3rd Marine Division. James taken up defensive positions, as Philippines. was killed by a mine on Ky Hoa Island, the Base was under attack by Vietnam. He is buried at Ft. Rosecrans small arms and machine gun fire National Cemetery. as well as from rocket-propelled grenades and hand-thrown DONALD R. PETRIE, 1949-1944 WILLIAM P. RANEY 1932-1951 bombs. 33rd Bomber Squadron, 22nd Bomber Private William P. Raney was a On the morning of September 12, Group, Heavy. MIA crashed into the sea member of the 38th Infantry the CIA Base was subjected to near Innisfail, north Queensland on 28 Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He repeated mortar fire. Learning February 1944 on a flight from Charters was Killed in Action while attacking that his friend, fellow CIA officer Towers to Nadzab. He is memorialized Taeu San, . and fellow former SEAL Tyrone at the Manila American Cemetery in the Woods, was manning a defensive Philippines. position on the roof, Glen without hesitation went to help REX A. STEFFEN, 1919-1945 JACK E. VAUGHN, 1931-1950 him. Defending the compound from the rooftop, Glen died On 20 March 1945, the U.S. Navy Hospitalman Jack E. Vaughan alongside his friend when a USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) was a U.S. Navy medic serving mortar round landed near them. was alongside the USS with Company E, 1st Medical Glen Doherty was 42 years old. Hancock (CV-19) when Japanese aircraft Battalion, 1st Marine Division. attacked. As the destroyer was getting He was Killed in Action while Dozens of Glen’s surfer friends clear, an aircraft overshot the carrier and tending his wounded comrades took some of his ashes on a crashed on Halsey Powell. Her steering on by a missile wound to his “paddle out” and sprinkled them gear jammed, but alert action with the back. off Swami’s Beach in Encinitas, engines averted a collision. Fires were California; and then, as Glen put out. Rex was one of 9 crewmembers wished, hundreds celebrated his killed were killed while over 30 others life at a massive block party. were wounded in the attack.