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Charlene and "Daddy" .....Alaska.

 Maria Charlene Huey (photos)

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Maria Charlene Huey

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This one is for my Dad.

Dad served in the CBI (China Burma India) during WWII with OSS Det 101 team name Antelope he is pictured here with members of the team
.At the time he was a 1st LT but after the war he was rifted back to MSG E-7 and retired CSM, no college. When he joined the Army in 1936 he was in a mounted infantry unit and spent 3 years on horseback, he would joke about being in a CAV unit, no, not MECH, with horses. - Mark Stinson '66

From the album: Wall Photos by Debbie Thompson Johnson

- from Steven D Denmark's Photos

Arthur L. Lerch 

My father passed away this afternoon, mercifully. I honor my father, Lynn Lerch, 89 years of age. I'm saddened by the loss, but glad his health trials are over. He has been relieved of duty. He was a good man, husband, father, soldier, community member and servant to his God. He will be missed by many, but he lives on in his offspring and goes to see my mother Marty.

- Buddy

Lowell Eugene Mingus- my father, must be newly enlisted...no stripes! Passed away Nov1, 1991 He was a great dad and a lot of fun. He was charming and loved to dance. He was a great joke teller too. I will never forget his laugh or his wrath when I was a teenager!

From the album:
In Loving Memory

by Yvonne 'Kym' Mingus-Denmark

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"Jueri and Margareta immigrated to the United States with 2 children, a piano and $10, and Jueri received his American physician’s license in 1955 in Chicago. Although private practice was his original aim, Jueri was drafted into the Army Reserve at age 34 as a Captain. He decided to make the Army his career, served throughout the world for a long and illustrious 35 years and retired as a Colonel in 1981. He served as a Flight Surgeon and earned a Masters in Hospital Administration in 1970 from Baylor University. Jueri served in Vietnam in 1965-66 and created the Air Mobile Surgical Pod, an airborne surgical room, flown directly by helicopter into the battlefield to aid wounded soldiers. He had top-secret clearance for many years and served at the highest government echelons for operations during the Cold War. His destinations included Germany, Austria, Ethiopia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Scotland and Iran. His tours of duty with his family included many in the United States as well as overseas. Among his many honors are the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star (for gallantry in Vietnam), the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal (for combat flying), the Joint Service and Army Commendation Medals, the Armed Forces Service and Vietnam Service Medals, the National Defense Service Medal, the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Reserve Service Medal and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm (for combat). He also earned two Presidential Citation Badges. After retirement, Jueri worked for the Texas Rehabilitation Commission as a physician consultant for fourteen years."

P82 Betty Jo     The amazing journey of Betty Jo

...My dad's rank at retirement was full Colonel.
He was a Lt. Colonel when he flew the Betty Jo.
The photos were taken by staff at the Air Force
Museum in Dayton, Ohio. He went back there a couple
of years ago and they allowed him to get back in the
cockpit of the plane he had made a world record in back
in 1947. It definitely was a special day for him.
- Bobbie Thacker '69

image from http://jmrc.tripod.com/club/news/0501news.htm

- Pat Collins Miller '70

see also SGT Danny Joe Miller

Biography excerpt source

She was born August 28, 1925 in Flatonia, Texas to Philip E. and Ima Zean (Robinson) Keil. She moved to San Antonio, Texas, at the age of ten and was a 1942 graduate of Breckenridge High School. She attended nurses training at Baptist Medical Surgical Hospital and finished her training in 1946. While training she was a member of the Cadet Nurse Corps. She would later earn her bachelors degree in nursing education from the Incarnate Word College, graduating in 1951, and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurses Corps.

- Dan Tomberlin
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:56 AM
Subject: [fhs63-66] Dads

Service Patches of Chaplain Kenneth Garner

Father of Kathy Garner '69, Bruce Garner '70

My dad's chapel at Chitose, Japan -- one of the few remaining structures' left 45+ years after.  PX, snackbar, residences (except the CO's), original school -- all gone!

Here's the crew...Dads kneeling, 2nd from left.

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Here's Dad's Bomb Group patch..."The Diamondbacks" This was his flight jacket patch, made of leather.

He was with the 5th Wing, 15th AAF, 99th BG, 346th Sq in Foggia Italy.

Ben F. Meeker B-17, 24 missions MTO, ball turret gunner 

The B17 ball turret -- a cramped and cold home on long bombing missions.  (Photos Bruce&Norman Garner)