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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • George "Bud" Day

    Colonel (Ret.) George “Bud” Day is the most highly decorated American military warrior since General Douglas MacArthur. In a long military career spanning 34 years and three wars, Day received nearly 70 decorations and awards. More than 50 of them were for combat, including our nation’s highest

  • John Coombs

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) John Coombs served as a Navy Sailor and Army Air Corps Soldier before becoming an Airman in the Air Force. He has seen a little of everything throughout his military career. He enlisted before he was 18 so the Army wouldn’t draft him. “I wanted to enlist for myself to have the

  • Robert Clark

    Senior Master Sergeant (Ret.) Robert Clark helped raise money and obtain supplies for the China Beach Orphanage during his time as an air traffic assistant with the 366th Fighter Group at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam, between 1971-1972. After raising funds for the orphanage, Clark realized it was still

  • James Brooks

    Major (Ret.) James Brooks attended pilot training in Texas as an Army Air Corps Cadet in 1942. Upon graduation, he was selected to fly fighter aircraft. “I always knew I wanted to fly fighters, but I will tell you, the bravest pilots flew bombers back then,” Brooks said. On May 18, 1944, while

  • Robert Beatson

    Lieutenant (Sep.) Robert Beatson enlisted in the Army, Jan. 8, 1941, then volunteered for the Army Air Corps and received his navigator wings April 22, 1943. A year later he had flown 30 missions over Europe aboard a B-24 Liberator from England. During his 28th mission, his aircraft was attacked

  • Sunny Anderson

    Senior Airman (Sep.) Sunny Anderson is a five year Air Force veteran who served as an award-winning radio and television broadcaster. She was first a radio host in Seoul, South Korea, and later she worked for the Joint Hometown News Service in San Antonio, Texas, traveling the globe to film holiday

  • Louis Zamperini

    Captain (Sep.) Louis Zamperini was an Olympic distance runner, inspirational speaker and an Airman during World War II. He was a bombardier in a B-24 that was flying a reconnaissance mission on May 27th, 1943, when his plane malfunctioned and fell into the Pacific Ocean. He and surviving crew

  • Jerry Yellin

    Captain (Ret.) Jerry Yellin is an Army Air Corps veteran who served between 1941 and 1945. Yellin enlisted two months after Pearl Harbor on his 18th Birthday. After graduating from Luke Air Field as a fighter pilot in August of 1943, he spent the remainder of the war flying P-40, P-47 and P-51

  • Napoleon Yates

    Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) Napoleon Yates enlisted in the Air Force while it was still in it’s infancy in 1951. He was issued brown shoes, making him a true part of the “brown shoe corps,” and upon completion of basic training he was promoted to private first class. Yates upheld his belief in,

  • Jim Widlar

    Airman First Class (Sep.) Jim Widlar enlisted in the Air Force on December of 1960 and was assigned to the Strategic Air Command’s 706th Strategic Missile Wing (ICBM-Atlas) at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB), Wyoming. He was an Atlas-D Missile Mechanic assigned to a launch maintenance crew

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