east nashville high veterans
EAST NASHVILLE HIGH VETERANS 1930-1980 | ||||||
NAME | GRAD YR | BRANCH | TIME | WAR | STATUS | MISC |
Joseph Crane | 34 | Navy | D | Served 4 years. | ||
Lee Roy Cummings | 34 | Army | D | |||
Robert Donald Goodlett, III | 34 | Army | WWII | D | ||
Ray G. Payne | 34 | Army Air Force National Guard | 1945-1946 1954-1957 | WWII | D | Occupied Germany 1945-1946. Chemical Warfare. Fireman in AFNG |
Rye Payne | 34 | Navy | 1944-1946 | WWII | D | SUSS Allen (DD66), USS Beryl (PY23) Radioman |
Frank Jennings Cope | 35 | Air Force | D | |||
Edmund Pardue | 35 | WWII | D | KIA | ||
Frank Hartwell Bolton | 36 | Navy | WWII | D | Lieutenant. Buried in Arlington Cemetery | |
Ross Hamilton Calvert, Jr. | 36 | Arny | 1941-? | WWII | D | POW. After combat in Italy and France, he was captured and became a POW. After an escape and recapture, Calvert was liberated from the POW camp at Hammelburg, Germany. He was awarded, among others, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Purple Heart for his actions in combat. He was a member of the Society of the Third Infantry Division, the American Ex-Prisoners of War-James S. Hale Memorial Chapter, and the Order of Daedalians. |
James Hollis Clayton | 36 | Navy | WWII | D | ||
Frank E. Glasscock, Jr. | 36 | WWII | D | |||
Robert Jones | 36 | Army | WWII | D | KIA, PFC | |
Douglas James Lockheardt | 36 | Marines | WWII | D | Killed in a training accident in the U.S attempting to parachute from a flaming plane | |
Claude Neal | 36 | Air National Guard | D | |||
Paul Dallas Sharpe | 36 | Army | WWII | D | Sgt. KIA at the Battle of the Bulge. 2 Bronze Stars, 1 Silver Star, purple hearts | |
Horace Hill Spicer | 36 | Army | D | |||
Walter Ray Andrews | 37 | Army | WWII | D | Master Sergeant. European Theatre | |
John Bingham | 37 | 1942-1946 | WWII | D | He was deployed to the South Pacific, rank of Sgt., then to North Pacific as an officer, rank of 1st Lieutenant. Afte | |
Roy Foster Buck | 37 | Air Force | WWII | D | Distinguished Flying Cross and Air medal with Clusters | |
Jack Peyton Gannon | 37 | Air Force | WWII | D | Lt. Colonel. Pacific Theatre. retired from the Air Force, where he served for 21 years. A pilot, Gannon was the winner of the Air Force Commendation Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, American Defense Service Medal and Armed Forces Reserve Medal. | |
George Albert Guess, Jr. | 37 | Navy | D | Radioman | ||
Alex Kirkland Hamric | 37 | Army | WWII | D | KIA-1 Lieutenant, Shot down in Mediterranean-P-38 Fighter Pilot, 95th Fighter Squadron, 82nd Fighter Group, 12th Air Force | |
Jewell Martin | 37 | Navy | WWII | D | Made a career of the Navy | |
Edward Ewing "Buck" McGill | 37 | Army | WWII | D | KIA in a B-17 Crash at Cave Hill, Belfast Ireland, S sergeant. He was a recipient of the Air Medal and the DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross. | |
Eugene Payne | 37 | Army | WWII | D | Died non-battle, Private | |
Frank Joseph Swint, Jr. | 37 | Navy | WWII | D | Killed in non-combat, Lieutenant | |
Lawrence "Larry" Bernice Beck | 38 | Army Air Corps | 1942 | D | Electronic Field Engineer/Communications Specialist | |
John "Jack" Bryan | 38 | Army | 1941-1945 | WWII | D | Pacific Theatre/Eniwetok, Okinawa, Saipan, Sgt. 27th Infantry Division, 106th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company L |
Ralph Grigg Bullard | 38 | Army | WWII & Korea | D | 1st Sargeant. Silver Sar, BSM, OLC and Purple Heart. Buried in Arlington Cemetery. | |
Hayden Clements | 38 | Army | WWII | D | Communications Specialist. | |
Lawrence Alvin Goldsby | 38 | Army | WWII | D | 2nd Lieutenant. Killed in training accident in U.S. | |
W. H. Lancaster | 38 | Army Air Corps | WWII | D | T Sgt., KIA, Bomb Group | |
Thomas B. Owen | 38 | Marines | WWII | D | He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the Marine Corps in the World War II battle of the Pacific on Okinawa, and he also received the Purple Heart. | |
William Clifton Wilson | 38 | Army | He served 4 1/2 years as instruction in a paratrooper division of the Airborne Infantry in Ft. Benning, GA. | |||
C. O. Wynne | 38 | Army | WWII | D | Korea and Vietnam.He was honorably retired as a Command Sergeant Major after serving twenty-two years in the Army and being awarded The Bronze Star Medal, the Department of Defense Commendation, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Army Good Conduct Medal (six times) as well as numerous service ribbons | |
Russell Allen | 39 | WWII | D | Pacific | ||
Ernest Bennett | 39 | Army | 1942-1945 | WWII | D | |
Anthony Thomas Cook | 39 | WWII | D | |||
Roy Theodore Englert | 39 | Army | WWII | 1 | European Theatre, Japan | |
Phillip Fuqua | 39 | Army | 1942 | D | ||
Carson Frost Greek | 39 | WWII | D | KIA in plane crash over Saipan, P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot | ||
John Jack Legler | 39 | Army | WWII Korea | D | ||
John Bridges Lindsley | 39 | Army | WWII | 1 | Served 3years. Spent 30 months in Europe. American Service Bureau. Served during World War II in France, Italy, Germany, Africa, and several other places abroad | |
Miles Conrad Matthews | 39 | Army | WWII | D | army Nurse Corp | |
Hugh Mott | 39 | Army | WWII | D | Major General. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross for his actions as part of the 9th Engineer Battalion in the capture of the Lundendorff Bridge on Mary 7, 1945 | |
Frank Whithorne Roberts | 39 | WWII | D | KIA | ||
John Luther Smith | 39 | Air Force | D | Colonel | ||
Phillip Whitley | 39 | Army | D | Lieutenant | ||
James Woolfolk | 39 | Army | WWII | D | Served in Germany and Japan | |