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2LT Pamela Dorothy Donovan

2LT Pamela Dorothy Donovan

In July 1968 Pamela Donovan’s brief obituary read as follows: A Brighton Army Nurse who volunteered for duty in Vietnam four months ago, died Monday at Qui Nhon, South Vietnam, of pneumonia, the Defense Department notified her parents, Mr and Mrs Edward Donovan,...

1st Lt. Sharon Ann Lane

1st Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, U.S. Army was killed by a rocket explosion on June 8, 1969, less than 10 weeks after she arrived in Vietnam. Assigned to the 312th Evacuation Hospital, 1LT Lane was working in the Vietnamese ward of the hospital when the rocket...

MAJ Hulon Brocke Whittington

Hulon Brocke Whittington was born on July 9, 1921 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He was residing elsewhere in the state when he enlisted in the United States Army on August 21, 1940. I have reason to believe he was a member of the Louisiana National Guard federalized along...

Joseph Andrew Walag

Joseph Andrew Walag was born on February 5, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. He excelled in electronics while in high school, so much that when he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard at 18 in 1940, he received the distinction of immediately teaching electronics and...

Col. Charles McGee (Ret.)

Retired Col. Charles McGee stepped out of the small commercial jet and flashed a smile. Then a thumbs-up. McGee had returned on a round-trip flight Friday morning from Dover Air Force Base, where he served as co-pilot on one of two flights done especially for his...