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ARMED FORCES DAY RECOGNITION November 14…2005

PALO ALTO ROTARY CLUB. ARMED FORCES DAY RECOGNITION November 14…2005. This is a tribute to current members of the Palo Alto Rotary Club who served their nation during both peacetime and war. HOW THIS CAME ABOUT… RALPH ADAMS gave some year book photos

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ARMED FORCES DAY RECOGNITION November 14…2005

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  1. PALO ALTO ROTARY CLUB ARMED FORCES DAY RECOGNITION November 14…2005

  2. This is a tribute to current members of the Palo Alto Rotary Club who served their nation during both peacetime and war

  3. HOW THIS CAME ABOUT… RALPH ADAMS gave some year book photos of a fellow West Pointer to HIG HIGGINS who suggested we do a special on said illustrious Club member. (Who shall go nameless). But with the approach of Armed Forces Day we decided to add a few non-West Pointers to the mix. So stand at ease and enjoy a bit of history.

  4. Military Service: Entered West Point at age of 17 in 1961. Became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Force in 1965 Assigned to a Combat Control Team at Langley AFB Then on to an Army Pathfinder unit. Training included 150 parachute jumps, including high altitude jumping. Did counter-intelligence work around the world. Left the service in 1969

  5. Ralph Adams Military Service: Entered West Point at age of 17 in 1961. Became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Force in 1965 Assigned to a Combat Control Team at Langley AFB Then on to an Army Pathfinder unit. Training included 150 parachute jumps, including high altitude jumping. Did counter-intelligence work around the world. Left the service in 1969

  6. Ralph Adams “The down side of military life was that it was tough on my family. No one knew when I would leave and for how long I’d be gone.” “On the other hand, it was one of the best times in my life!”

  7. Preparing for reconnaissance flight over Germany

  8. John Bracken Preparing for reconnaissance flight over Germany J.B.

  9. John Bracken Commissioned in the Field Artillery at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Served as liaison pilot in Europe with the 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division. Chief mission was directing artillery fire while piloting a light plane. Military Service: Army 1941 to 1946 Retired in the Reserve as a Major.

  10. John Bracken “My most memorable experience was being chased in the Bavarian Alps by a German pilot flying a captured American Thunderbolt P-47” “It was like this one only it had been repainted inits entirety coal black”

  11. John & Marion Wedding Day July 30…1942 Favorite song: “All the Things You Are” By Jerome Kern

  12. Active Duty: 1943 to 1946 Military Experience: 21st. Infantry Battalion Camp Roberts…California Spent the war years as a Training Instructor. Rate at Discharge: Sergeant

  13. ROBERT R. BULMORE Active Duty: 1943 to 1946 Military Experience: 21st. Infantry Battalion Camp Roberts…California Spent the war years as a Training Instructor. Rate at Discharge: Sergeant

  14. ROBERT R. BULMORE Favorite song: Glenn Miller’s “String of Pearls”

  15. Time in the service: Active Duty: July 1945 to June 1950 Reserve: Sept 1951 to July 1967 Rank on separation: CDR USNR

  16. Bill Busse Time in the service: Active Duty: July 1945 to June 1950 Reserve: Sept 1951 to July 1967 Rank on separation: CDR USNR

  17. Bill Busse DUTY STATIONS: University of Southern California Ottumwa Iowa Pre-Flight Corpus Christi…Texas Pensacola…Florida Whidbey Island…Washington Barbers Point…Oahu Agaña…Guam Alameda…California FAVORITE SONG… Frank Sinatra singing “I’ve Got a Crush on You”

  18. Bill Busse “The Navy…What a deal!!! Without the Navy I would never have gone to college and in turn met that cute blonde at USC. To top it off they gave me flying lessons, but didn’t ask me shoot at anyone…friend or foe”

  19. US Naval Reserve: June 1944 to December 1945 Stationed at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory Washington DC “I did technical work in the development of advanced Naval ordnance weapons systems such as underwater mines and torpedoes. High tech for its time.”

  20. Lyle D. Connell US Naval Reserve: June 1944 to December 1945 Stationed at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory Washington DC “I did technical work in the development of advanced Naval ordnance weapons systems such as underwater mines and torpedoes. High tech for its time.”

  21. Lyle D. Connell “We did our testing nearby at the Amphibious Training Base Solomons, Maryland” “My rank at separation was Ensign USNR”

  22. Entered the Navy: July 1943 Became an Ensign: June 1944 “In October, 1944 I joined the USS Douglas A. Munro, a new Destroyer Escort. Aside from a brief (and rough) trip to Casablanca, we spent the rest of the war in the South Pacific, doing lots of escorting and some shore bombardments. On V-J day we were patrolling between the Philippines and Okinawa.”

  23. Jack Dorgan Entered the Navy: July 1943 Became an Ensign: June 1944 “In October, 1944 I joined the USS Douglas A. Munro, a new Destroyer Escort. Aside from a brief (and rough) trip to Casablanca, we spent the rest of the war in the South Pacific, doing lots of escorting and some shore bombardments. On V-J day we were patrolling between the Philippines and Okinawa.”

  24. Jack Dorgan “Following V-J day we went to Shanghai. After some glorious days there, we were sent to Hong Kong, ‘to show the flag.’ Then it was back to the States. In February, 1946 we entered San Francisco Bay. I was discharged from the Navy in July, 1946” Jack receiving the coveted Rotary Club Blue Badge

  25. Navy Service: 1944 to 1946. “Shortly after enlisting the Germans and Japanese surrendered. I guess they heard I was coming.” “Was a Radio-Gunner aboard PBMs. Achieved the illustrious rank of Aviation Radioman 3rd Class.”

  26. Dick Freeman Navy Service: 1944 to 1946. “Shortly after enlisting the Germans and Japanese surrendered. I guess they heard I was coming.” “Was a Radio-Gunner aboard PBMs. Achieved the illustrious rank of Aviation Radioman 3rd Class.”

  27. Dick Freeman Johnston Island “Ended my career working the tower on Johnston Island which is now a toxic waste dump.

  28. Dick Freeman “My favorite song was ‘In the Mood’ Wasn’t that everybody’s?”

  29. Infantry…US Army      2nd Lieutenant May 1969 Active Duty May 1970 to January 1972 Infantry School: Columbus…Georgia “I was sent to Fort Ord…everyday expecting to ship out to Viet Nam. Ran a “quick fire” range utilizing BB guns for practice before live fire.”

  30. Bill Fogarty Infantry…US Army      2nd Lieutenant May 1969 Active Duty May 1970 to January 1972 Infantry School: Columbus…Georgia “I was sent to Fort Ord…everyday expecting to ship out to Viet Nam. Ran a “quick fire” range utilizing BB guns for practice before live fire.”

  31. Bill Fogarty “Orders never arrived for Viet Nam. When asked, I say that my military career was shooting BB guns and defending the beaches of Monterey County” Favorite song: We Gotta Get Out of this Place By TheAnimals

  32. “I was one of the lucky ones!” From 1946 to 1948 attached to the 1st Army Transportation Corps at Camp Kilmer NJ Favorite song: Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade

  33. Wes Gardiner “I was one of the lucky ones!” From 1946 to 1948 attached to the 1st Army Transportation Corps at Camp Kilmer NJ Favorite song: Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade

  34. Wes Gardiner From 1951 to 1953 a 1st. Lieutenant with the 1st Field Artillery at Fort Drum, NY. Later went to Fort Sill, OK. No shots fired in anger! On to Stanford and graduate school. “I was one of the lucky ones!”

  35. Surgeon in U.S. Medical Corps 1952 to 1954

  36. Sy Greenstone&The War in Korea Surgeon in U.S. Medical Corps 1952 to 1954

  37. Sy Greenstone&The War in Korea Incoming wounded Our fleet of ambulances

  38. Sy Greenstone&The War in Korea Our base from the top of the hill Change of Command ceremony

  39. Sy Greenstone&The War in Korea Medical Ward Home

  40. Sy Greenstone&The War in Korea A visit from Home

  41. Sy Greenstone “I once operated 10 to 12 hours daily for three weeks…cleaning wounds, amputations, setting fractures, etc. Reward was R & R in Tokyo “My worst experience was trying to save two Korean children who stepped on a land mine.” “My best experience was visiting Freedom Village for prisoner exchange at the end of the war.”

  42. Sy Greenstone “If you get the feeling that M*A*S*H 4077 was pretty authentic…it was. I had the pleasure of consulting on two of the episodes.” Rank: Captain Received a Bronze Star

  43. “Even 105 years later I am not cleared to tell you where I was or what I did. Suffice it to say I was in Army Counter Intelligence from 1952 to 1955.” Rank: Can’t say! Special awards: Can’t say!

  44. Jack Hendricks “Even 105 years later I am not cleared to tell you where I was or what I did. Suffice it to say I was in Army Counter Intelligence from 1952 to 1955.” Rank: Can’t say! Special awards: Can’t say!

  45. Jack Hendricks “Needless to say, I caught a lot of big fish!”

  46. Jack Hendricks A final salute to one and all!

  47. The Original Sergeant-At-Arms!

  48. Warren “Hig” Higgins The Original Sergeant-At-Arms!

  49. Warren “Hig” Higgins Active Duty: 1942 to 1947 Active Reserve: 1947 t0 1968 Military Experience: “Very dull. All duty in U.S.” Rank at Separation: Colonel

  50. US Army Infantry 1953 to 1956 24th & 34th Infantry Regiments in Korea Company Commander on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Asst. Regimental Supply Officer Sasebo, Japan Last assignment: Brooklyn Army Base while finishing College at CCNY

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