{"id":31597,"date":"2012-08-18T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31597"},"modified":"2012-08-19T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:42:15","slug":"band-of-brothers-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31597","title":{"rendered":"Band of Brothers’ Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hack Stone thought we should start a gallery to companion our “Members Gallery<\/a>” that would highlight the fact that our membership in the Grand Band of Brothers is a family thing and that we should all send in pictures of our family members who served. He starts off with a picture of his grandfather who served during The Great War in the 79th Infantry;<\/p>\n

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I’m digging through my files to find a picture of my father and I’ll post it as soon as I can find it.<\/p>\n

Former3c0 sends him and his dad at BMT graduation;<\/p>\n

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Laughing Wolf sends his dad, “Pvt. Cliff Powers, Guidon Bearer Quantico, VA 1935. Co. G, 2nd BN, Fifth Marines F.M.F (according to what I can decipher on the back of the photo)”<\/p>\n

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More from Laughing Wolf; my Uncle Foster Powers, USN, Pilot, KIA Japan 1945. He died in one of the last conventional raids done by the Navy (as I understand it).<\/p>\n

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Laughing Wolf’s Dad again, being a GI;<\/p>\n

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From Ex-PH2; “The blond young man is my great grandfather, William Henry Rogers, my maternal (mother’s) grandfather. He was in Supply in the 33rd Infantry, Wisconsin 1st Regiment Cavalry.<\/p>\n

His brother, my great-uncle Gen. George C. Rogers, was in the 15th Illinois Regiment, in Hurlburt’s Division on the Shiloh Battlefield at Pittsburg Landing, TN — the Hornets’ Nest. He took the field when Col. Turner resigned. I haven’t found a photo of him in uniform, but I found a bad photocopy of a letter he sent home from Pittsburg Landing describing Shiloh. <\/p>\n

Their uncle, James Barton Rogers was a chaplain in the 1st Wisconsin Regiment. <\/p>\n

The other photo is my maternal (mother’s) grandmother Florence Chapman Rogers’ uncle, Jonathan Chapman, KIA in the Civil War, Company A, Wisconsin 1st Regiment Cavalry. ”<\/p>\n

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Steve sends “This is from my Brother Frank\u2019s retirement in Dec 70 at Ft Monmouth. I was the Post CG’s aide de camp. Unknown to anyone, especially me or my Brother, the General finagled the GO duty roster and assigned himself to the monthly retirement ceremony. FM 22-5 style he sidestepped to in front of my brother (I was holding the thing with all the awards) and my brother saluted, of course. The Gen did not return the salute and motioned me to take his place. My brother was still saluting so I saluted and the announcer told the crowd that I was retiring my brother. It was a very thoughtful thing of him to do. My Bro now rests with heroes at Arlington. ”<\/p>\n

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I attached the one where my Bro swore me back into the Army a year or so earlier. I decided I didn\u2019t like the army in VN and got out. 6 months later I decided I didn\u2019t like civilians and came back in.<\/p>\n

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Country Singer sends “One of these pics is my father and my uncle circa 1959; my dad would end up retiring after 22 years Navy, my uncle after 24 years USAF. <\/p>\n

The other picture is my Ggggrandfather, John Hamilton West, 4th Corporal, Co I, 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He was with the 5th Alabama Regt from its formation; at battles such as Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg (at Bloody Lane), was captured at Fredericksburg (exchanged a week later), Chancellorsville (in the assault wave under Rodes), The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania. He took a minie ball to the right leg at Spotsylvania, an injury which ended his service and would plague him until he died in 1903 at the age of 72 from a rattlesnake bite he received while rabbit hunting. It took him ten days to die. He was one tough SOB.”<\/p>\n

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Ray sends; “Dad in front of my Grandparent’s home after returning from WWII. Pictured with him are my Uncle Jack (mini me) and cousin Ken (micro me). Dad served as a Motor Machinist Mate 2nd Class onboard the LCI(L) 1094. He always said they should have gotten Sub pay and Flight pay because half the time they were out of the water, and the other half, under it. I have other photos from one of Dad’s old shipmates showing the 1094 off shore at Iwo Jima pulling harbor security after the island had been captured. ”<\/p>\n

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Common Sense sends the next tn pictures; “Our newest member is my youngest son Alex who graduated from Air Force BMT in June, he’s currently at tech school at Sheppard. This is a picture of me, Alex, and my husband at graduation.”<\/p>\n

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I’ll have to dig up a picture of my dad Pete in uniform. He was in the Army, stationed at Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan, where my sister and I were born. This is a picture of my parents with me in Japan. Their off-base accommodations were primitive to say the least, but people weren’t so spoiled back then.<\/p>\n

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This is a picture of my uncle Jon Swanson, Medal of Honor recipient. He was born in San Antonio while my grandpa was at Ft Sam Houston. When he was home on leave in between tours, he gave us all helicopter rides. I was 9 when he was killed.<\/p>\n

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A picture of my mom’s brother Gary.<\/p>\n

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My grandpa Howard Swanson served as a doctor in WWII, mainly in North Africa and Italy. He was an amateur photographer so I have lots of interesting pictures from him. The second one from him was taken at Ft Sam Houston where he went for training before shipping out. The names of the other guys are on the back, in case anyone wants them.<\/p>\n

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Next is Jim Leader, my grandpa’s brother who served in the Navy during WWII. My grandpa wanted to serve, but he was a truck mechanic in an essential industry so they wouldn’t let him. He regretted that the rest of his life.<\/p>\n

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Howard Swearingen was my husband’s grandfather. This is a picture of him during WWI.<\/p>\n

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My dad’s uncles John Henry and Dick Sullivan in WWII.<\/p>\n

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My great-grandparents Edward and Josephine Sullivan during WWII. My great-grandmother is wearing her Red Cross uniform.<\/p>\n

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Eggs sends: “[The first picture is] my father in WWII on the shoulders of his crew, he was a T\/Sgt with the 514th SQ, 376th HBG, “The Liberandos” of the United States Army Air Forces. After the war he was an instructor at Chanute AFB, then was a TSgt in the newly formed Air Force Reserves.<\/p>\n

Smitty1 is my Uncle “Smitty”, 1st Cav in Korea. He passed away in 2004, and thanks to the work of his daughter, posthumously recieved his Purple Heart. She served in Desert Storm with the Mississippi National Guard.”<\/p>\n

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SJ sends; “This of my son at AIT graduation 50 pounds ago. My greens were never the same after this wearing at his request (was retired then)\u2026too much stress on the buttons. He regretted asking me to wear them and meet his DI, who was Airborne. The DI saw my 82nd combat patch and he had my son pull extra duty all night for \u201cshaming me by not volunteering to go to jump school\u201d. ”<\/p>\n

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ROS sends; “My Pop before going to Vietnam, and my Papaw, a pilot in the Army Air Corps. I don’t recall if he flew P-43’s or P-47’s.”<\/p>\n

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