Fred Faulkner Lester was born in Downers Grove, Illinois on April 29, 1926. He joined the United States Naval Reserve on November 1, 1943 when he was just 17 years old. He was placed on active service with the United States Navy, trained as a medical corpsman, and...
War: World War II, 1939-1945 Branch: Navy Unit: VP-22 (Patrol Squadron), Pacific Fleet Service Location: Pacific Theater; Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Rank: Aviation Chief Machinist’s Mate By the end of World War II, Donald Patrick Finn, who served in the...
US Navy Nurse Corps, Jan. 1941-Oct. 1947 Nona (Hambright) Vay joined the Navy in Jan. 1941 and was discharged as a lieutenant commander in Oct. 1947 because she married. She was first assigned to the US Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Vay’s naval nursing career...
G. Edward Leary was appointed commissioner of the Utah Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) in 1992. The mission of DFI is to charter, regulate and supervise persons providing financial services to the citizens of Utah. The primary activity of DFI is on-site...
James C. Lanz was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, in 1926. In 1943, he followed his two older brothers into the military, enlisting in the Navy on December 7th–two years to the day after Pearl Harbor. Lanz served on a “Landing Ship Tank” LST-34 in the Pacific...
As a boy, Arnold Baker, Jr. always dreamed of joining the Navy. In 1941 he turned 17 and enlisted. He was stationed on the USS Hornet as an aviation mechanic and was onboard when the ship launched the Doolittle Raid against Japan, as well as during the Guadalcanal...
