LTG Walton Walker

Jan 25, 2019 | Army

After a distinguished career as commander of XX Corps during World War II and command of Fifth Army following the war, LTG Walton H. Walker assumed command of Eighth Army in September 1948. At that time, Eighth Army’s duties focused on the occupation of Japan and not...

MAJ Joseph Benjamin Anderson, Jr.

Jan 9, 2019 | Army

Corporate executive and military officer Joseph Benjamin Anderson was born on February 12, 1943, in Topeka, Kansas, to Pearl Gatewood and Joseph B. Anderson, Sr. His father was a widower with one son while his mother had two daughters from a previous marriage. An...

MAJ Audie Leon Murphy

Jan 3, 2019 | Army

Born in Kingston, Hunt County, Texas, on June 20, 1925, Audie Murphy was raised in a sharecropper’s dilapidated house. Murphy’s father, Emit, fell short on his parental responsibilities, continuing to father children, 12 in all, despite that fact that he...

Lt Col Addison Earl Baker

Dec 28, 2018 | Air Force, Army Air Corps

Lieutenant Colonel Addison Earl Baker (January 1, 1907 – August 1, 1943) was commander of the 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) in the U.S. Army Air Forces who led the group on the low-altitude Allied bombing mission of oil refineries at Ploie?ti, Romania, Operation...

COL Jack Jacobs

Dec 27, 2018 | Army

Colonel Jack Jacobs, who entered military service through Rutgers ROTC, earned the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism on the battlefields of Vietnam. He also holds three Bronze Stars and two Silver Stars. Jacobs was an adviser to a Vietnamese infantry battalion...