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Capt Elmer John Gedeon

Elmer J Gedeon – nephew of former major league infielder Joe Gedeon, University of Michigan three-sport athlete and major league outfielder – was born in Cleveland, Ohio on April 15, 1917. He and cousin Bob used to ice skate together at Brookside Park in...

Capt Wayne L. Fischer

A Marine aviator and veteran of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Wayne Fischer completed nearly 700 combat missions during the Vietnam War, piloting helicopters for insertions, extractions, and MEDEVAC operations. Originally from a small farming town near the borders of Iowa...

Col Thomas George Lanphier, Jr.

He was born on November 27, 1915 in Panama City, Panama. He married Phyllis of Boise, Idaho and had 5 children. He studied journalism at Stanford University and graduated in January 1941. He completed his pilot training at Stockton Army Air Field, California on...

COL Martha Roed Bell

Looking to expand her horizons beyond her home state of New York, Colonel Martha Bell joined the Army Student Nurse Program in 1967–though she didn’t imagine that it would eventually take her as far away as Vietnam. Arriving in country, she treated primarily...

1SG Forrest Earl Todd

Todd was awarded the Soldier’s Medal ( this medal supersedes the award of the Army Commendation Medal)  “for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy as a member of Company D, 1st Battle Group, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry...