Posted on Apr 15, 2023

#VeteranOfTheDay Marine Veteran Frank Tharin - VA News

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

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#VeteranOfTheDay Marine Veteran Frank Tharin - VA News

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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

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My mom's brother Pfc. Clifford Reed was a 3-inch gunner on Wake Island. He was a POW in Shanghai and Hokkaido Japan performing slave labor in coal mines.

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LTC Stephen C.

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Had to have been an extraordinary man, MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

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He was. Died in 2002 at age 82.

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SPC Lyle Montgomery

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My Moms brother, Joe McCoy was a P.O.W. in Germany for a lot of the war. He survived, returned, to Kansas and raised a family. He didn't talk about the war.

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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

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SPC Lyle Montgomery - Ditto for my uncle. He went to see my mom and dad in LA when he came home. When they sat down to dinner, he flipped over his dinner plate, saw "Made in Japan" on it and started breaking all the china. He left and never came back. I never met him. . . .

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