4C COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL November 8, 2017
Saluting their sacrifi ce...
Cottage Grove area veterans and a little information about their service
Warren L. Anderson
Corporal, US
Army Tank
Corps
Dec. 1941 to
Oct. 1942
Fort Hood,
Tex. And
Fort Polk,
La.
Served 10 months and was
discharged because poison
gas was still used and he had
asthma
Robert E. Ash
US Navy
ABE-1
Atlantic
and Pacifi c
Oceans
aboard
aircraft
carriers
Korea and Vietnam era, USS
Saipan CVL-48, USS Kitty
Hawk CVA-63, USS Hornet
CVS-12
On board USS Hornet for
Apollo 11, Apollo 12 recovery
crews, June and Nov. 1969
Dan Bennett
Staff Sgt., U.S. Army
Afghanistan 2006-07, Iraq
2009-10
Bob Baysinger
QM1,
US
Navy
and
retired
U.S.
Coast
Guard
Navy –
March
10,
1954
to 1962, Coast Guard 1963 to
1976
Atlantic East Coast during Cu-
ban crisis, Atlantic staff duty,
Seventh Fleet, Pacifi c, Wash.,
on one of the fi rst Navy ships to
visit Australia since WWII dur-
ing the 1956 Olympic Games in
Melbourne.
In Coast Guard, Offi cer in
Charge of recruiting in Eugene,
where he met many Cottage
Grove men and women, trav-
eled both the Arctic and Antarc-
tic on ice breakers
Lyle Boustead
Sub-
marine
Signal-
man 3rd
Class,
U.S.
Navy
1942-46,
Pacifi c
Ocean,
New
London, Conn.
Glen H. Bricker
Radioman 3rd
Class, US Navy
Dec. 22, 1944
to Oct. 13, 1946
in Guam, Nov.
10, 1950 to
Aug. 10, 1951
on USS Los
Angeles, Korean War
Patrick S. Burt
Private
First
Class
(E-3),
US
Army
1986-
1988
Fort
Knox,
Ken.
John Gillespie
William J. Dowell
Air Force
First Sergeant
November, 1975-September
1998
Philippines, England, Germany
Many stateside assignments
Jim Downing
Cpl. Bruce M. Bush
Served in the 9th Army Air
Force 73rd Station Comple-
ments Squadron Detachment
B. He served in Normandy,
Northeren France, Ardennes
Rhineland Central Europe.
He was awarded the EAME
Campaign Medal with six
Bronze Stars, Meritorius Unit
Award, World War II Victory
medal and Belgian Fourragere
Citation
William M. Cameron
USM Seals
6 ½ years
East
Vietnam,
Prisoner of
War
James Christensen
USMC
Staff Sgt.
1968-76
USA, Japan, Okinawa, Phil-
lipines, Vietnam
Jim Clark
Eight-year
veteran,
U.S. Coast
Guard,
Army Trans-
port
E-5, U.S.
Army
1969-72
Walter
Reed,
Fort Ord,
Germany
Derek Draper
Tech Sgt.,
Army Air
Corps
Nov. 1941
to Aug.
1945
Chamute
Field,
USA,
Ireland, England, North Africa,
Sicily, Italy
Charles Crisp
U.S. Army
1999-2003
Stationed at Ft. Hood, Tex.
Army Commendation Medal
Arnold Earnshaw
National
Guard and
Army
1940-45
Four inva-
sions, WWII,
South Pacifi c:
New Brit-
ton, Dutch
New Guinea, Philippines and
Louzon
Enlisted at 16 years old with
the National Guard, then
enlisted in Army, in charge of a
40-millimeter gun
Robert J. Farris
US Navy
1954-58
Korean War
veteran
U.S. Navy
Dennis Deere
US Navy
EN3
1968-72
Vietnam for
one year, Cam
Rahn Bay, South
Pacifi c on USS
UTE ATF 76
Sergeant,
U.S. Army
April 1982-
April 1988
Ft. Sill,
Ft. Lewis,
Schofi eld
Barracks,
HI, Korea,
Ft. Knox,
Ft. Hood
Artillery M198 Howitzer Ar-
mor M1A1, Abrams tanks
Melvin Gowing
Army and
Army Re-
serve
Major
Sept 1947-
June 1952;
Nov. 1952-
May 1971
Ft. Ben-
ning,
Germany,
Korea, Ft. Ord, Ft. Lewis
Combat Infantry Badge
Staff
Sgt., E-
6, Army,
Air
Force
1943-45
US one
year,
New
Guinea
one year,
Philip-
pines
one year
Bob Hardy
USMCR
Sgt. E-5
1964-1970
Basic: Parris
Island, S.C.
Schools:
Jacksonville
NAS, Mem-
phis NAS
Duty: Helicopter Flight crew
Twin Cities NAS; Glenview,
Ill. NAS; A-6 Flight Line Joint
Base Andrews DC; B Com-
pany 52 Engineering Battalion
Salem, Ore.
Jack Gates
E-6, U.S.
Air Force,
1945-69
Served in
Germany,
Saudi
Arabia,
Vietnam,
New-
found-
land,
Korea
U.S. Army 718 Amphibian
Tractor Battalion, 1943-46
Leyte Invasion, Oct. 20, 1944,
Okinawa Invasion, April 1,
1945
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