MM Vern Peters, Jr.

Sep 8, 2017 | Coast Guard

Vern Peters chose to enlist in the Coast Guard because of an especially persuasive recruiting poster depicting a bare-chested seaman loading a shell into the breech. Peters completed basic training at Government Island, Alameda, California, where many of his fellow...

COL John Walter MacIndoe

Sep 5, 2017 | Army

After graduating from Penn State in 1942, John commissioned in the Army and he continued to serve for over 30 years. During that time, he participated in World War II, the Korean Conflict and Vietnam. His duties included commanding a rifle company, an infantry...

RDML John Delmond McCubbin

Sep 3, 2017 | Coast Guard

John McCubbin graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, Class of 1939. He retired as a U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral in 1973. John was awarded with the Air Medal for meritorious achievement as Patrol Plane Commander in Patrol Squadron SIX,...

SSG Roscoe Julian Willey

Sep 1, 2017 | Army

My father, Roscoe, was a Staff Sergeant in the Chaplains office at the Presidio during WWII. He wasn’t sent overseas because of asthma. He and that side of my family were long time residents of Salt Lake… in fact, they were settlers. I was born in 1943...

CPT James Donald Willliams

Aug 30, 2017 | Army

James served in the Army during World War II. He was a Captain in the Army after graduating from UC Berkeley dental school. We honor you, James Williams. (Submission by: Eve Berg-Pugh)