Reunions

Army

Nurse Corps Assn, May 2-4, Las Vegas. Contact: L. Moss, 3029 Arbor Dr., Manhattan, KS 66503, (210) 650-3534, mail@e-anca.org.

2nd Inf Div, Korean War Vets Alliance, May 20-24, Charleston, S.C. Contact: R. Hockley, 10027 Pine Forest Rd., Houston, TX 77042, (713) 334-0271, rmh-2id-kwva@earthlink.net.

11th Transportation Co (Lt Hel) (H-34), May 21-24, Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Contact: A. Causseaux, 5822 Westchester St., Alexandria, VA 22310, (703) 971-3218, allenb4@verizon.net.

36th Inf Div Assn, June 1-4, Springfield, Ill. Contact: E. Stapleton, 2133 Holmes Ave., Springfield, IL 62704, (217) 544-9323.

14th FA Rgt Assn, June 22-25, Lawton-Fort Sill, Okla. Contact: C. Maldonado, (210) 681-0132.

Society of the 1st Inf Div, July 12-16, Phoenix. Contact: Society of the First Infantry Division, 1933 Morris Rd., Blue Bell, PA 19422, (888) 324-4733, fax: (215) 661-1934, soc1id@aol.com.

Marine Corps

1976 WO Basic Class, July, southern California. Contact: G. Anasagasti, 3529 Cannon Rd., No. 2B, Box 413, Oceanside, CA 92056, or T. Mulloy, woreunion@yahoo.com.

Navy

USS Perry (DD-844/DMS-17), April 19-25, Washington, D.C. Contact: J. Malmendier, PO Box 606, Boiling Springs, PA 17007, (717) 258-9695, Web site: www.ussperry.com.

VBF82, VF18A, VA172, and VF172, May 4-6, NAS Pensacola, Fla. Contact: D. Smith, (703) 560-4119, dsmith21@gis.net.

AOG Reunion Gp, May 17-21, Phoenix. Contact: W. Waller Jr., 3100 Shore Dr., PH 52, Virginia Beach, VA 23451, (757) 217-2356, wallerwn@wcbeach.com.

USS Swanson (DD-443) (WWII), May 28-31, Fall River, Mass. Contact: J. Sloan, 1701
Greenway Dr., Augusta, GA 30909, (706) 736-0276, jsdd443@knology.net.

USS Shangri-La (CV/CVA/CVS-38), All Crews and Air Groups, June 7-11, Michigan City, Ind. Contact: G. or T. Mansfield, Great Lakes Museum of Military History, (800) 726-5912, (219) 879-4761, gregnterr@comcast.net.

USS Bowen (FF-1079), June 22-25, Charleston, S.C. Contact: R. Burke, 925 Charter Club Dr., Lawrenceville, GA 30043, (770) 338-1069, ricky_burke@hsb.com.

NAS Sanford, All Units and Sqdns, 1942-68, June 22-25, Sanford, Fla. Contact: R. Feeback, 205 Poinsetta Dr., Sanford, FL 32773, (407) 302-2252, dlfrsf@aol.com.

USS Richard S. Edwards (DD-950), June 22-25, Nashville, Tenn. Contact: J. Turley, PO Box 287, Basye, VA 22810, (540) 856-2575, trlyanch@shentel.net.

VFAW-3, June 25-28, San Diego. Contact: S. Graham, (210) 344-2625, vfaw3@flash.net,
or H. Young, hlyjr@earthlink.net.

USS Raleigh (LPD-1), June 29–July 2, St. Simons Island, Ga. Contact: S. Southard, raleighreunion@bellsouth.net, or J. Weatherspoon, (703) 330-8422, jweatherspoon@worldnet.att.net.

USS Kemper County (LST-854), July 13-16, San Diego. Contact: J. Simonson, 2931 S. Cooper Ave., St. Cloud, MN 56301, (320) 253-2167, jsimonson@stcloudstate.edu.

Air Force

Pilot Class 51-A, April 4-7, Winter Haven, Fla. Contact: J. Reese, 956 N. Heron Cir., Winter Haven, FL 33884, (863) 324-3342, skybird343@aol.com.

RF-101 Pilots, April 27-30, Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Contact: B. Welch, (615) 595-6414, benjowelch@comcast.net.

485th Tactical Msl Wing, June 1-5, Crystal City, Va. Contact: J. White, 485th TMW, PO Box 339, South Montrose, PA 18844, (570) 278-2482, 485tmw@stdcomp.com.

Pilot Training Class 56-I, June 7-11, Dayton, Ohio. Contact: R. Taylor, 5498 Aryshire Dr., Dublin, OH 43017, (614) 766-6420, rltaylor5498@earthlink.net.

351st Bmb Gp Assn, June 15-18, St. Louis. Contact: C. Hammond, PO Box 281, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, (717) 766-1489, bombgroup351st@aol.com.

Fairchild AFB, 92nd Bmb Wing (WWII), All Units, July 28-30, Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. Contact: G. Perham, 2820 E. Snowberry Ln., Spokane, WA 99223, (509) 535-9865, perhgd@ieway.com.

Reader Exchange

1st Lt. John Silas Sheffield Peirson, USA—I am looking for anyone who served with him during WWII. He was the S-2 of the 3rd Bn, 290th Rgt of the 75th Inf Div during the battles for LaRoumiere Hill in the Belgian Bulge. He was KIA on Christmas Day 1944 and buried at Henri-Chapelle. Contact: R. Peirson, 100 Oceano Ave. No. 14, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 965-7841, rik@dayone.com.

James Zephaniah, USA—I am looking for him. I do not know his rank. He is from Puerto Rico and was stationed at Jeumont Caserne, La Rochelle, France, from 1956-58. Contact: T. O’Brien, (513) 421-0118, amtob65@fuse.net.

Maj. Gen. Vernon Chong—I am looking for him. I do not know his service. He was associated with Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. Contact: D. Loudin, 106 Valais Ct., New Bern, NC 28562, (252) 636-2913, godl12@earthlink.net.

Cpl. Torchy West, USAF—I am looking for her. She was in an article in the June 1946 issue of Air Force Journal, now Airman magazine. She was stationed at Hamilton Field and was assigned to ATC as a crew chief on C-54s flying between Hamilton and Hawaii. She is from Oklahoma and had worked at one of the Douglas plants inspecting C-47s before enlisting in the AWC. She would be about 77 years old today. This information is for Hamilton history. Contact: F. Oberding, 120 Lincoln Dr., Sausalito, CA 94965, fredoberding@msn.com.

Pfc. Clifford H. Bartow, Pvt. Foster V. Bowden, Pvt. T.F. Duarte, and Pvt. P.E.M. Pollender—I am looking for any surviving family or descendants of them. I do not know their services. All four were KIA in August 1944, during WWII, while with the 1st Special Service Force in southern France. Bartow was from White Plains, N.Y.; Bowden was from California; Duarte was from Richmond, Calif.; and Pollender was from Farnham, Quebec, Canada. Contact: J. Mathis, PO Box 340072, San Antonio, TX 78234, (210) 656-7000.

Chaplain 1st Lt. Joseph Verbis Lafleur, USAF—I am looking for information about his services at Clark Field when bombed by the Japanese on same day as Pearl Harbor; his services as a POW on the islands of Luzon, Leyte, and Mindonao; and his death aboard the Japanese ship Shinya-Maru when it was sunk by an American submarine Sept. 5, 1944. He was in the 19th Bombardment Group. Contact: J. Crouchet, 127 Fanny St., Lafayette, LA 70508, (337) 267-7264, jackcrouchet@aol.com.

Capt. William Robert Peterson, USAF—I am looking for him. He is from Waukegan, Ill., attended Northwestern University, and would be 65 years old now. He was a navigator of B-52s and C-130s and was stationed at K.I. Sawyer. He also served in Vietnam. Contact: P. Kauttu, 7813 Zircon Dr., S.W., Lakewood, WA 98498, (253) 581-9848, highgturn@aol.com.

USS Decatur (DDG-31)—I am looking for the Decatur’s XO. He was an aide for Vice Admiral Martin, CO, Sixth Fleet, 1967-68. Contact: A. Schenfisch, 234 Alta Vista Rd., Eagle Point, OR 97524, (541) 826-9443, schenfischaldot@earthlink.net.

Richard C. Horne—I am looking for him. I do not know his rank or service. He was a signal officer in I Field Force Vietnam around 1967. Contact: R. Thompson, 444 Aruba Ct., Satellite Beach, FL 32937, zoloft07@rocketmail.com.

Col. John M. Higgins, USAF-Ret.—I am looking for him. Contact: J. Innis, 105 Blackjack Dr., Sedona, AZ 86351, (928) 284-2997, frankinnis2003@yahoo.com.

CWO Joseph Riley and Maj. John R. Smith—I am looking for them. I do not know their services. They were in an accident March 26, 1968, in Quin Nhon, Vietnam. Riley’s last assignment was at USAAVNC, Fort Rucker, Ala., in October 1969. Contact: D. Livingston, 808 Tortuga Ln., Killeen, TX 76542, (254) 618-5511, dlivingston@hot.rr.com.

Maj. Earl R. Kindig, USA—I am looking for anyone who served with him during WWII. He was CO of the 121st FA Bn in Operation Michaelmas, Saidor, New Guinea. On Feb. 7, 1944, he went MIA in an L-4A while directing artillery fire on Japanese forces on Gabutamon Ridge. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in October 2001. Contact: M. Kindig, 1675 Glen Moor Pkwy., Lakewood, CO 80215, (303) 238-9820, (720) 270-5357, mikekindig@aol.com.