Written by: Retired CAPT Dave Schnell
LCDR Thomas "Poolie" Watson was born in Cadillac, Michigan, in February 1932 to Richard Poole Watson and Pauline Anne...
Written by: Hometown Banner Committee and Janice Ann Noble Horn (daughter)
Easton “Jiggs” Boville Noble was born in Los Angeles on Oct. 29, 1903, to...
Written by: Retired CAPT Roger Welch
Robert W. “Brick” Nelson Jr. hails from the Pacific Northwest and Southern California. The oldest of 10, Nelson excelled...
Written by: Jan Thompson (daughter)
LtCol George Nasif joined the Marine Corps shortly after high school graduation in 1934, starting out as a bugler. While...
Written by: Cherie B. Collins (daughter)
Many fine things have come from the Napa Valley in California, including Jeanne Lassus Marden.
Marden was born on May...
Written by: Sally Barstow (daughter), and Ward, Marcel, and Peter LeHardy (sons)
Ward Morehouse LeHardy was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1934 to Navy LT...
Written by: Retired RADM Francis Holian
RADM Francis Holian is a 1968 graduate of the Naval Academy. His initial assignment was to a destroyer. However,...
Written by: Retired CAPT Dan Cook
CAPT Dan Cook devoted a 25-year career of active-duty service as a Surface Warfare officer and then Civil Engineer...