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Vernon “Bud” F. Adam Charles E. Allen Emmett Allen Gilbert Leroy Allen Harvey Lee Allen John Allen Marlin (Hoddy) Allen Cpl. SP3 Army, Tec 5 SrA Air Force US Navy US Marine Corps 7TH Regiment of Marines, Sgt, WWII July 22, 1954 - 1941 - 1945 1st Class WWII WWII Indiana Rifles 1942 - 1946 June 21, 1956 Okinawa and Guam. Served in the War of 1812 South Pacific Fought in the Korean War.
SSG Elaine M. Anderson John R. Allensworth Rex Allensworth Dennis Altenhofen Ronald Altenhofen Army WAC Sept. 1966 - 1969 Andrew Armbruster Bernard Armbruster US Air Force US Navy US Navy US Army Army Reserves Vietnam WWII 1961 - 1963 A2C 1944 - 1946 EM3 Spec 4 Sept. 1974 - April 1995 Navy Army USS Hornet CVA12 Korea, KMAG Army Commendation Medal, 1964-1966 1955 - 1958 1960 - 1962 Good Conduct Medal, Army Achievement Medal
Claude Armbruster Gerald Armbruster Leo Armbruster Phil Armbruster WWII WWII WWII Vietnam Army Army Army Army 1968-1970 VETERANS DAY PAGE 2C | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Dennis Arps Richard D. Belton Richard Armbruster SP4 US Army, Military Robert F. Baldwin Spec. 5 Merlyn Beckler Lewis Belcher SP4 US Army, 1966 - 1971 Purple Heart - France Police, D Batter, 5th Lt. Col. US Army C. Dennis Beckler Air Force 1st Lt. Two years in Darmstadt, WWII Battalion 6th Air Defense 1994 - 2010 Helicopter Crew Korean War B24 plane Germany, 18 months in Army and 284th MP Company, Chief 67 - 70 Tail Gunner Kirkland AFB Southeast Asia (Vietnam), 709th MP Battalion UN 68 - 69 1950 - 1953 & remaining tour Frankfurt, West Germany of duty stateside
Loren L. Bender Ward N. Benson Kenneth P. Bishop Sgt Frank Blakley Dale D. Blum Merle Blumenstein Wayne Blumenstein May 1968 Camp Smith Retired 25 years, US Army WWII SP5 Air Force US Army US Army Bao-Loc Vietnam Vietnam 1969 - 1971, TH 1942 - 1946 US Army 1977 - 1985 WWII WWII 18 Engineer BN. Korea 1978 - 1979, Germany Served in Canada, Vietnam Served in Greece Co A (CBT) 1982 - 1985, 1988 - 1991. TH France, and Okinawa 1964 - 1967 19 Engineer Brgd Saudi Arabia 1990 - 1991 (Combat)
Ed Bontrager Tech SGT Krandal Bontrager Ole Boone Daniel Brenneman David Brenneman Pete Buffer Dale John Burich 96TH Infantry Air Force since 2006 Spec 5, Army US Army US Army Spec/5 US Army October 27, 1941 - October 10, TH WWII 1942 - 1945 Balad, Iraq 2007 Vietnam, Thailand Corp 575TH AA Sgt 35TH Division Co. 1963 - 1966 1944, 186 Infantry Service Served in the Pacific Africa 2017 3 Years, Medic Battery B L 134TH Reg Company, April 1942 - 1943 - 1946 1943 - 1945 October 1944, Served in Battle of the Bulge New Guinea and Australia
Wesley B. Burnham Lloyd Burr Jr. Beryl C. Butterbaugh Dairld W. Butterbaugh Jerry Butterbaugh Medically retired Lester L. Butterbaugh Scott W. Butterbaugh U.S. Navy 1972 – 1974 US Army HQ Co. DC-3 1942 – 1945 Sgt US Army Reserves Staff Sgt TH U.S. Shields Spc 4 40 Engineers 1956 - 1960 Corp. A Company, 389TH Army 1953-1961 Ft. Richardson, Alaska 1942 - 1945 USS Essex CV A-9 Served 11 years European Theatre Engineer Combat, Battalion (heavy), Iraqi Freedom 21/2 in Iraq
Jerry Carranza Wesley Butterbaugh John J. Canott Francis Cannott John Capper Active Duty Army Bruce Alan Chapman Russell D. Chapman TH 1918 WWI Infantry 8 Army Air Force Army PFC Fort Wainwright, AK: US Army, Spec 4 US Air Force Served in France 1684 Ordinance Company, WWII Artillery US Marines Mosul, Iraq; and 1970 - 1973 Staff Sgt. England Tinian Island 1942 - 1945 Served in Guam Baghdad, Iraq Signal Corps 1968 - 1972 Pacific Ocean Years of service: 3 Germany
Gunther John Christiansen Ray “Skip” Coffman Phillip Conaway Lt. John Conway PO2 Sean Conway Keith Copeland Carl Craig Jr. PFC US Navy PFC US Marine Corps USMC 1969 - 1972 United States Navy Navy 1966 - 1969 US Army Air Force YN3 Anti Tank / Infantry Served at Camp LeJeune, 1991 - 1997 Served West Coast THANK YOU WWII 1951 - 1952 Camp Pendleton, Okinawa and 29 Palms, CA Danang FOR YOUR California 1968 - 1969 SERVICE. VETERANS DAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 | PAGE 3C
Raymond L. Curl Verl C. Davisson 1ST Infantry Division, 32ND Richard Craig Radio Technician 2C Ron Davis Troy Davis Jim Dawson Cynthia J. Dayton Army US Army SGT F.A. Battalion 1942 - 1945, Spec 4 Air Force US Navy V-12 Specialist 1990 - 2007 D-Day Sicily, Omaha Beach, Army Sgt. THANK YOU 1942 - 1946 Vietnam Normandy, Battle of the 1957 - 1959 1975-1979 USS Indianapolis and FOR YOUR SERVICE. Bulge, Bronze Star, six battle Germany USS Chilton stars, two Arrow Heads
David J. Dayton Donald D. Dayton John D. Dayton Mike Dayton Thomas L. Dayton Jack L. Dillon Cleo Dodson Air Force Petty Officer 1st Class Navy Army Air Force USAF, Master SGT US Navy and Sgt. Navy 1943-1945 Petty Officer 1st Class SSgt. Sgt. Germany, Korea, Naval Reserve 1962-1966 Coast Guard 1947-1949 1940-1946 1942-1946 1972-1976 North Africa Seaman 1ST Class 1954 - 1974 1945 - 1954
Pat Durian Harold Durian Howard Durian Kenneth Durian Lamont Durian Leo Durian Retired MSGT USAF Terry Durian US Army October 1944 - 1952 US Navy US Navy SSGT US Army 1969 - 1971 Taiwan US Navy Killed in action LST1130 - Ship Airman 1ST Class Paralyzed waist down 1971 - 1973 Thailand Desert Storm October 1944 Northern Pacific D-Day 1973 - 1980 Philippines Died October 1952 1983 - 1984 Korea 1986 - 1987 Iceland
Wm. Dale Dutweiler John E. Duvall Lloyd Duwa Maynard Eash K. Dan Ehl Kenneth Ehrenfelt K. Ward Ehrenfelt Navy S/1C 1ST LT, US Army Nov. 1945 - June 1946 SGT US Marine Corps US Army US Air Force US Marine Corps South Pacific 1952 - 1953 Korean War Private 1st Class Tank Driver Spec. 5 Airman SGT 1944 - 1946 Bronze Star and US Army 1951 - 1953 Korea 1970 - 1973 1973 - 1977 WWII Pacific Korea 1951 - 1955 Purple Heart 1941 - 1944
E-4SPC (No longer active) Randie Fisher-Frieden Donna Rotenburger Joe Fanatia Donald Richard Fladung Robert D. Embree Lawrence Fanatia Jeremy Fields Army National Guard 2002- PFC, 17TH Airborne Fanatia US Army Specialist TH Marines, Drill SGT US Army 2010, 134 Washington & 297 US Army US Army, Spec.4 Spec. 5 Iowa National Guard Vietnam 4 years S/4 Battalion, Anchorage, AK. Served in Belgium 1972 - 1975 1971 - 1975 Iraq 1971 - 1974 933 Military Police, Wauke- Killed in action (Eagle Scout, Troop 235) gan, IL. 4224 US Army Hospi- at Bastogne tal Detachment 1. Cedar Rapids 2007-2008. Balad, Iraq
Omer Flander James Fleming Clifford E. Flynn Delbert D. Flynn Jim Flynn Norval Flynn Pamela Flynn Army Battery B U.S. Navy 14 Battle Stars, 23 Career USS Clarendon US Air Force WW I US Air Force South Pacific 1963 – 1966 Years, WWII and Korea, WWII E3 Army Senior Master Sgt. Vietnam LT Commander Iow Jima, Saipan 1972-1975 Camp Motier Chavme, 1978-2002 US Navy US Navy Texas – Misawa, Japan France 1937 - 1960 1944 - 1945 VETERANS DAY PAGE 4C | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Ward L. Flynn Lois Naftzer Foster Robert S. Foster Major Adam R. Frank Bret D. Frank David “Luke” R. Frank Richard Frank Merchant Marine, Lieutenant, Army core of US Navy USAF MSGT Air Force Spec. 5 Army SGT US Air Force Army of occupation, nurses, WII stationed at Fort WWII Special Operations Navigator October 19, 1988 - 1964 - 1967 1970 - 1974 US Maritime Service Richardson, Anchorage, AK California defending 6 Deployments to Iraq and November 1, 2012 Vietnam 1971 - 1972 US Army and Shemya Island in the the Pacific Rim Afghanistan. In service 1944 - 1947 Aleutian Island Chain. from June 4, 2006 - Present
Robert “Jake” Frank Major Susan Frank Bob Freeman Brian Frees PFC Tysen Frees Earl Fry George E. Fry Staff SGT US Army, Communications Specialist US Air Force US Navy Lance Corporal US Army US Army WWII 294 Medical Co. 5 years active, 1 tour 1967 - 1973 US Marine Corps SSGT CPL Battle of the Bulge June 2009 - April 2010 Iraq, USAF Vietnam Korea 187TH Airborne September 1942 - Iraq, currently in Afghanistan 2007 - current 1946 - 1948 1951 - 1954 January 1946 1ST Battalion 168TH Infantry
Cleo R. Gerot Michael Ray Goodrich Donald Gatlin 2nd Lt. REC 4 25TH Field Artillery Bat- Staff Sgt. Kyle Gerot LCDR Brenna Robert L. Goodrich US Army 1976 - 1982 National Guard talion, heavy machine gunner US Air Force - 6 years US Marine Corps Francis Gaulocher Conway Goode Ft. Dix, NJ E-5 Killed in Vietnam US Army, WWII 1942 - 1946 Currently stationed USN 1996 - 2002 Camp Pendleton Lt. Lews, WA March 17, 1968 served in Ardennes, Rhine- at Lakenheath AFB, 1956 - 1959 Lojwa, Enewetak land, Central Europe, Battle of London, England Atoll the Bulge, 3 Bronze Battle Stars
David Goody C.W. “Jim” Grady Gayden E. Grady Lindsey Groff Allan Grose Alva Grout Staff SGT Army National Zachary Grimm Petty Officer US Air Force US Army US Marines US Navy US Army Guard 1984, Air Force 1989, 3rd Class Tech SGT 1942 - 1944 1953 - 1957 1952 - 1962 SGT Air Guard 1993, Served in Iraq, 1977 - 1997 Patton’s 3rd, Normandy, 2002 - 2006 Army Guard 1995, Desert Storm, Cuba Utah Beach Assigned to Iraq 2004 - 2005 Afghanistan 2004 - 2005
Bob Grout US Army , National Guard Cleldon Grout Gary Grout Jerry Grout Jesse Grout Rick Grout Ron Grout SGT, 1966 - 1972 US Army US Army Infantry Navy US Army, Private US Army US Army Vietnam 1969 - 1971, PFC SGT Lt. Commander 1942 - December 1945 Combat Engineer National Guard Korea 1978 - 1979, Germany 1941 - 1945 1968 - 1974 US Navy 1957 - 1962 France and SGT Staff SGT 1982 - 1985, 1988 - 1991. Germany WWII 1985 - 1989 1980 - 2000 Saudi Arabia 1990 - 1991
Russell Grout Tyler Grout William A. Grout Allen J. Haberman Thomas S. Hahn Tim Hahn Todd Hahn US Navy US Army US Army Reserve US Army Reserve US Navy US Navy 1986 - 1990 Petty Officer SPC 1968 - 1974 November 1963 - SSGN 727 THANK YOU 1990 Torpedoman’s Mate 3rd Class 2002 - 2008 1 tour November 1969 USS Michigan FOR YOUR on USS G.P. 1968 - 1974 Afghanistan 14 years SERVICE. Lipscomb (SSN 685) VETERANS DAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 | PAGE 5C
Bill Halleran E-5, BT2 US Navy Sgt. Cleo Hall Staff Sgt. Dean Hall Leo R. Hall Served aboard naval destroyer Ty Harland Robert Hartley Dick Harvey Europe during WWII US Air Force Radio Corporal T4 US Army, 1138 USS Rowan DD-782 1966 - 1970 US Army US Air Force US Army 1941 - 1945 Operator 1947 - 1954 Engineer Group, Pacific National Defense Service Medal, 2004 - Present Airman 1st Class Japanese occupation Theater, occupation army, Vietnam Service Medal with two Afghanistan 1 tour 1950 - 1954 Korea THANK YOU and Korean War Japan 1943 - 1946 Bronze Stars, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Korea), FOR YOUR SERVICE. Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Alford Hazelton Wayne Hazelton Jr. Wayne Hazelton Sr. Staff Sgt. Robert R. AIC Jay L. Hough AIC Larry D. Hough Sgt. Robert R. Hough Army SP5 Navy Seaman E3 Navy 1944 - 1948 Hochstedler US Air Force US Air Force US Air Force 1967 - 1969 1965 - 1967 Damage Controlman US Army Air Force 1962 - 1966 1961 - 1967 875 Med. Gp. 3rd Class WWII 1944 - 1946 1966 - 1970 Purple Heart, OLC
Robert Houseal Richard Huber Cpl. Larry Dean Jacob Joseph E. Jenn Wayne E. Johnson Billy J. Karr Jerry Karr Corporal 1942 - 1945 US Coast Guard Staff SGT US Army T4 Cannon Company 381st Marines and Air Force Spec 5 / Staff SGT E6 Served in the 7th Armored Radioman 1st Class Army 1942 - 1945 1960 - 1962 Regiment, 96th Retired Master SGT Army, Vietnam Army in France, Belgium, 1941 - 1945 France and Germany Infantry Division 22 years of service Holland and Germany July 1944 - August 21, 1946 Battle of the Bulge
Robert Karr Ron Karr Anton Keifer Anton C. Kieffer Cpt. Cecil R. Kelley Ken Kempf Russell Kempf US Air Force 1954 - 1959 Army, Vietnam Army SGT WWI US Army Corps Army - 317th Engineeer US Army Pilot F94C Fighter, Engineer 4 years France 1953 - 1956 Pontoon Bridge Company Interceptor US Air Defense Germany Army Jan. 1951 - Jan. 1953 THANK YOU Command Otis Air Force Germany Base, Cape Cod, MA FOR YOUR SERVICE.
Tom Kleopfer LCPL Larry Klinger Elmo J. Kron Joseph A. Kron Walter Leroy Kron Robert Kuhns Albert “Jim” Larew US Army US Marine Corps 1974 - 1976 BSM: 3 US Navy SK3 Seaman US Army Spec 4 US Navy Spec 4 Base Camp in March 1946 - January 1948 US Navy Korean War Army, Panama Canal Metalsmith 3rd Class 1969 - 1971 Pendleton, CA San Diego, CA 4 years 1944 - 1946 1960 - 1963
John W. Larew Jr. Jeremy LaRoche SFC Michael LaRoche PFC Tom LaRoche Sgt. Donald Latta Frans Laubscher William Leigh US Navy 3 ID Infantry, Army Interservice, Physician Assis- US Army Reserve 999th FA Battalion US Army Seaman 1st Class January 16, 2001 - tant Program at Ft. Bragg, NC. 15 years, 5th Detachment, Korea 1951 - 1953 THANK YOU Korean Conflict Signalman 3rd Class April 30, 2006 Enlisted June 2002, Six years 603rd ASB, 12th CAB, FOR YOUR WWII 1944 - 1946 in US Army Golden Knights Stationed in Germany Parachute team until 2010. SERVICE.
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Donald E. Lewis E. James Leyden Melvin W. Liska Robert Long Henry V. Manasmith Russell “Gus” Martin Edward Mattes Army 1954 - 1957 Specialist 4th Class US Air Force and US Air Force Army, Troop B, First Iowa US Marines 1945 - 1947 US Air Force Dept. of Defense 1962 - 1963 US Army National Guard SGT Staff SGT Vietnam Cavalry, Co. D, 126th Served in South Pacific, SGT teacher, coach for Army Vietnam 1962 - 1963 Vietnam 1967 - 1986 1965 - 1968 Machine Gun Battalion, Tinian and Guam 1966 - 1970 Dependent Children 34th Division, Le Mans, in Portiers, France France, 1915-1919
Harold M. McClelland Leroy J. McArtor Commander, Airways and Air Michael P. McDole John A. McGaffey Brad McGowan Amos Mellinger Kevin Mellinger AIC US Air Force Communications Service 1946 - 1948, US Army WWII Navy SGT US Army US Navy Coast Guard 1948 - 1952 Communications and Weather Spc. 5 Buried in 1975 - 1978 1st Class, Petty Officer Served in Korea Officer 1934, England and European 1966-1969 Wassonville Cemetery 2007 - present theater WWII. Army Air Forces Vietnam THANK YOU 1942, Director of Technical Servces FOR YOUR and AircCommunications Officer, Third Commander Air ways and Air SERVICE. Communications Services 1946.
Stephen Mellinger Edward Metz Gerald “Jerry” Metz Jim Metz John Metz Melvin Metz Adam C. Michel 1965 - 1972 S/C U.S. Navy PFC US Army Navy US Army Pfc US Army US Air Foce U.S. Navy WWII Oct 1934 – July 1936 Dec. 1963 – Dec. 1965 Nov. 1954 – Nov. 1956 WWII Rineland 2009 - Present Vietnam Jan. 1945 – July, 1946 Korea Vietnam twice Germany July 1944 – June 1946 Stationed at Osan AFB, 3rd Class, Petty Officer 3 Bronze Stars South Korea
Craig Miller Steve Michel Pvt. James V. Milam Bradford Miller Chester L. Miller Donald L. Miller Duane Miller 1942 - 1943, Stationed at Senior Airman, US Air Force US Marines US Army 24th SGT US Army US Air Force 1st Lieutenant Presidio SFO for 1 year in Guam 2007 - 2009, Japan 2009, 1952 - 1956 A.A.A. Korea, September 2005 - 1953 - 1957 US Air Force the Coast Guard and 2 years Afghanistan 2011, South Korea Japan and Korea 3 years August 2010 1952 - 1954 at Jeffersonville Barracks 2012, Nevada 2011 - 2012, Georgia guarding German POWs 2009 - Present, Currently deployed to Afghanistan (second tour)
Edward James Miller Eldon J. Miller Lt. Jay R. Miller Keven P. Miller Kirby L. Miller SFC Melvin Miller 1st Sgt. Paul E. Miller Army 3rd Infantry E5 US Army M.D. US Army US Marine Corps Served in Europe 109th Med. BN in Iowa City 1970 Truck Driver, Platoon SGT 1942 - 1945 1970 - 1972 1975 - 1977 during WWII Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. August 30, 1972 - 1942 - 1945 Desert Storm 1990 - 1991, August 29, 1975 Iraq 2003 - 2004, 26 years in Iowa Nat. Guard
Robert “Dean” Miller PFC Ryan Miller Sheldon Miller Spencer Miller Stanley Vernell Miller Spec 5 Steve Miller Mark Millice Radio Operator Army National Guard Specialist 4th Class (E-4), Army National Guard Navy from 1950 - 1954 Vietnam 1969 - 1971 PFC, 134th Medical US Air Force Fort Jackson, SC Tank Crewman, M60-A1 Reserves during the Korean War Ambulance Company, Stationed in Germany, Since 2013 tank US Army, 1972 - 1975 2007 - Present on the USS Essex 1986 - 1992, Desert Shield Discharged in 1954 Fort Carson, CO, Aircraft Carrier Desert Storm 1 year in Korea VETERANS DAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 | PAGE 7C
Joseph E. Mincer Robert F. Moore Sgt. Steven Moore Charles Mullinix PFC Mearl C. Munson 2nd Lt. Brian Musser David Nixon US Navy US Army Corps 133rd Infantry, Iowa Army US Army SGT Army 1917 - 1919, Served in US Air Force, Airman First US Army, Iowa National Gunners Mate II 1944 - 1946 National Guard, Korea France at the front in the St. Class (A1c) Enlisted Guard 1940 - 1949 Served in operation 1951 - 1953 Michiel Sector when the June 2008 (11/2 years), LT Col., 1983 - Present Enduring Freedom Armistice was signed Based at Scott Air Iraq, Afghanistan Afghanistan 2010 - 2011 Force Base near Shiloh, IL
Logan Parrish Stephanie Patterson Harold H. Peterseim Dennis Phares Nathan Pinion Kaitlyn Pinion Dave Plank US Army National Guard SPC US Marine Corps US Army SGT US Air Force US Air Force Army, PFC, WWII 2008 - 2012 US Army, 1942 - End of WWII, 1969 - 1970 Vienam Active duty Active duty ETO 1944 - 1945 Currently stationed in served in the Pacific Force Security Force Security Ansbach, Germany
Greg Plank SP4 Jay Plank SPC Joseph Poch 1st Lt. Nicholas Poch PFC Charles M. Polton Richard Polton Ronald G. Popham Army Sp4 Vietnam Vietnam 1971 - 1973 Iowa Natonal Guard, 224th Iowa National Guard KIA France US Air Force Specialist 5th Class Corps 1966 - 1968 Received the Bronze Star Engineering Battallion, 833rd Engineer Company April 12, 1945 Tour in Italy US Army Company C, Mt. Pleasant Sapper, Ottumwa European Theater 1966 - 1968 61/2 years with one year 7 years with 8 months in Iraq, Jan - Dec 2005 in Iraq, May - Dec 2005
Daryl Potsander Kevin Reece Michael Reece Lt. Kelley AMS 3 Dan Rickerd Sgt. Zach Riddle Dave Ridge SGT, US Army Senior Chief US Navy IT 2 (SW) Conway Reinfields Navy, Nov 1957 - Nov. 1961, 833rd Eng. Co. Saudi Arabia 2002, Iraq 2003, WWII, ETO 1942 - 1945 Retired USS DeWert USMC Hu1 - Det1 Afghanistan 2011 - 2013 Al Udied, Qatar 2008, (FFG-45) Mayport, 1999 - 2001 Atsugi Japan, main base Southwest Asia, Germany Florida Naval Base, 2004 - ? 2009 - 2011, 15 years, 5 mos.
Karen Ridge Richard L. Riggan Anthony Rios Sr. Dean C. Rodgers John “Zeerat” A. Roetlin Ron Romine Sgt. Barry Romoser Undisclosed location in SW Asia US Army 82nd Airborne US Air Force Spec. 4 Army US Army Reserves SGT, USMC Wildflecken, Berlin 2010, included missions to Iraq Division 307th Engineer A/2C 1966 - 1968 Okinawa 1st Force Recon 1961 - 1964 and Afghanistan, Ramstein Air Battalion 8 years of service 1959 - 1962 Southeast Asia Base, Germany, missions to in Albania, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Southwest Asia, 32 months 1955 - 1961 Afghanistan, and Iraq and Horn of Africa 2015, Not Active 11 years, 3 mos
Elmer L. Rotenburger Gerald Rotenburger Leonard Rotenburger Spec 5 Larry Schauf PFC Paul M. Scherrer Craig Schlabaugh Charles Rotenburger US Army, PFC 1958, Pilot US Navy US Navy US Army US Marines Spec 5, Army US Air Force F94C Fighter, Interceptor US 1976 - 1978 CA5, S2, S1 Vietnam Served in China Germany, 3 years SGT 60th Air Defense Command Otis WWII 1946 - 1947 1968 - 1970 1944 - 1946 Bomber Squadron Air Force Base, Victory Medal 1942 - 1945 Cape Cod, MA
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Don Schlabaugh Elmer Schneider 2nd Lt. Richard Schneider Robert Schneider Jr. Tyler Schneider William L. Schneider Herbert N. Schnoebelen Captain US Army US Marine Corps 2157 Air Rescue US Air Force Staff SGT Army CPL US Army US Navy 1940 - 1946 1951 - 1953 Helicopter Division Sq. 1969 - 1973 Competed airborne Korea Electrician 3rd Class Received Purple Heart Korea 1952 - 1954 Served in California training in August 2006 WWII, New Hebrides, Killed in action and tour in Vietnam Stationed at Ft. Hood,TX South Pacific Served in Iraq 1943 - 1945
Paul Schnoebelen Donald Schrock Duane Schrock Stanley Schrock Charles Schroeder Dale Schroeder Leonard A. Schumacher US Army US Air Force US Army US Army SGT 334 USAF ETO Sp 4th Class US Army 251st Hospital Unit Served in Korea 1962 - 1969 1946 - 1948 CPL 1942 - 1945 England 1965 - 1968 Southern France WWII and Okinawa Korean Conflict Vietnam 1966 - 1967 May 1953 - May 1955 1950 - 1957 Germany 1967 - 1968
Jack Seward, Jr. Albert Schwartz Harold Seitsinger Specialist 5th Class Jack Seward Jedediah P. Seward Clayton J. Sexton John L. Sexton US Air Corps SGT US Army 1974 - 1977 US Coast Guard Captain US Marine Corps US Army 1944 - 1946 US Army Air Force THANK YOU 1942 - 1945 UH-1, OH-58A, AH-1G Seaman Apprentice Reserve, Operation Staff SGT Supply Technician Stationed overseas in Helicopter Maintenance and USCG Cutter Pontchartrain Enduring Freedom, 18 months in the and Tailgunner on FOR YOUR SERVICE. Norwich, England UH-1 Crewchief, 704th November 1948 - June 1950 Afghanistan 2012 Pacific Region Schooling B29 Maintenance Battalion 4th 1944 - 1946 Infantry Division (Mecha- nized) Fort Carson, CO
Cliff Shalla James Shalla Norman D. Shalla Ed Shebek Samuel Shepherd Marvin Simon Charles Singleman Corporal 82nd US Army US Army Corporal Private, US Army US Navy TFG-3 Corporal US Army USMC Airborne Division Spec 4 1946 - 1947 Combat Engineer 1971 - 1974 West Pacific 1952 - 1954 Iowa National Guard 1953 - 1955 1953 - 1955 1954 - 1956 USS Prairie Stationed in Germany American and France Legion Commander
Francis Albert Skubal Joseph J. Skubal T/4 89th Infantry Division, Staff SGT, trained as aerial 341st Field Artillery Battalion gunner and assigned as tail Dwight Slaubaugh Melvin “Frog” Slaubaugh Tom Slaubaugh Arnold R. Smith Harold Sojka Jan. 1945 - January 1946, Served gunner on B-17 bomber with 8th US Army Korean War National Guard US Army 382nd Infantry Division, in European Theater, assigned Air Force, Received Air Medal SGT 1953 - 1955 1987 - 1993 1950 - 1955 Philippines to General Patton for short and one Oak Leaf Cluster and 2009 - 2013 WWII time, then with General Clark, Purple Heart, 1943 to Sept. 28, Not Active 1944 when killed in action 5th Army for duration of war over Germany Southwick Brothers Front: Bert Southwick Army, Quartermaster Keith Southwick Navy, survived Pearl Harbor Dale Southwick Army Engineers, Okinawa Back: Don Southwick Norman D. Sojka Army, SSGT, US Navy Battle of the Bulge Ronald Spicher Donald W. Stagner 1945 - 1946 Tsingtao, China Bob Southwick A2C Airforce Private US Army US Air Force 1949 - 1962 Air Force 1945 - 1947 served in Alaska, South Pacific Germany Philippines and USA & Guam VETERANS DAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 | PAGE 9C
Maurice “Mo” Strabala Clifford Stumpf Adrian Jon Stutzman Ernie Swailes David Swartzendruber Randy Swartzendruber Ronald Swartzendruber US Army US Navy SSG US Army Tech SGT US Army Spec. 4 US Army Corporal Seaman 1st Class Iraq 2002 - present 104 Infantry Division January 1971 - E4 THANK YOU 1946 - 1947 1944 - 1946 2 tours to Iraq 3 years France, Belgium, January 1973 1967 - 1970 Stationed in Germany Germany FOR YOUR SERVICE.
SPC Monte Swift Simon Taylor Don Thompson Cecil James Townsend Master Sgt. Cory Tuma Ivan W. Ulin James Varner US Army Civil War US Army Ordinance Mechanical Air Force 1992 - 2010 Seaman 1st class US Navy 6 years in service Company K 22nd Regiment E5 Department Served Spain, US Navy E7 Kuwait Iowa Infantry Volunteer May 1968 - April 1970 Army July 8, 1943 Panama, Alaska, Served on the USS Seal/Driver August 14 1962 Vietnam New Guinea Azore Islands Tuscon 1944 - 1946 1970 - 1994 - May 29, 1965 January 12, 1944 (near Portugal) South Pacific
Cory Wade Robert G. Varney John Vincent Active Air Force Cletus Waldschmidt Elmer E. Waldschmidt Rodney Waldschmidt Floyd S. Walker US Army SGT in the US Army 1988 - 1993, Japan and Philip- PFC Army Medic Radio telegraph operator Spec 5 US Army US Navy Tech 5th Grade and Military Police pines then Iowa Air National 1953 - 1955 US Marine Corps Overseas duty 1969 - 1972 1942 - 1945 European Theatre in Vienna and Linx, Guard to present Kuwait, Nov. 14 1951 - Nov 13 1953 Vietnam 1970 - 1971 3 years Austria, from 1951 - 1953 Turkey, Iraq, Currently Camp Pendleton serving in Afghanistan Oceanside, California
James E. Walker Michael Walker Wayne W. Wasson Samuel Watkinson Robert Weber SFC Rob Weber Rory L. White 1960s Cuba Missile Crisis US Navy Seaman 1st Class US Navy Navy Marines Active Duty National Guard US Air Force October 1962 – Cuba E1, E2, Fireman USS Hadley 1950 - 1955 1975 - 1976 Recruiter in Cedar Rapids SSGT (E-5) U. S Navy Petty Officer EN2 1944 - 1946 Served in Operation Desert 1999 - 2007 National Guard South Pacific Storm, Operation 1977 - 1983 Iraqi Freedom
Larry Wieland Machinist 2nd Class, Wilfred Weber Paul Weber Norbert Weber Sgt. Ed Weber Luke Weber Cpl. Mark Weber Edward Whitmire US Navy, 12-1953 to 11-1957 during Navy Chief W Officer Army Pvt. Navy Air Force Army PFC Army PFC, M.P. LT US Navy Korean Conflict Served aboard Pacific Conflict US Equipment Chief P. Officer mechanic, Italy Artillery U.S. France, Germany 1964 - 1967 USS Porterfield No.682, 10/1964 1939 - 1969 1944-1945 Pacific Conflict 1940 - 1945 1943 - 1945 1941 - 1945 USS Coral Sea to 11/1957 in Far East including 1939 - 1945 Vietnam 1965 Yokohama, Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, Thailand, Midway Island, Pearl Harbor
PFC Clare Weber Cpl. Anthony Weber Cpl. Cletus Weber I.C. Doc Weber Lester Wieland Arthur Wilkins Army, Germany Army, Germany Army, Korea Army Master Sgt. US Navy Air Corporal US Army 1954 - 1956 1953 - 1955 1950 - 1953 Korea and Vietnam AR2, Sonar Anti Sub WWII stationed 1951 - 1963 1957 - 1961 in New Guina VETERANS DAY PAGE 10C | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Vaughn Wilkins PFC Jim Wilson Sgt. Louis Wilson Theodore F. Wilson AVE AN Tommy Winters Michael C. Wood David Worthington Specialist 4 US Army Army, Vietnam US Marine SFC US Army Airman, Seaman US Marine Corps US Army Mechanized Infantry 2 years Korean War US Air Force 4 years in Iraq Sergeant 2000 - 2006 February 1966 - October 1968 July 1970 - 1973 1951 - 1953 US Navy VMU-1 Vietnam Nha Trang Korea, Vietnam Completed three tours May 1967 - October 1968 August 1971 - July 1972 of duty in Iraq
Donald Yeggy ABF2 US Navy 1966 - 1970 PFC ASU Richard J. Yeggy Walter Yeggy Howard Yoder CDL Travis Yoder Albion Young Air Craft USS, Hancock Merritt Yeggy Cpl. US Marine Corps Korean Conflict Marines Army CVA19 1966 - 1970, Vietnam United States Army 1952 - 1954 1951 - 1952 4 years Iraq 11th Airborne Division Service, Vietnam Campaign, THANK YOU 1951 - 1952 Staff Sergeant Paratrooper & Gliderman, Navy Unit Commendation, Stationed in Germany FOR YOUR 11th Division Band Navy Meritorious Unit, SERVICE. Japan 1947 E for efficiency award, Armed Force Expenditionary Please contact The News for any Explore the errors, omissions history of or updates. Veterans Day
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