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Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
Pauline Rosella Slattery
1900 – 1981
Born in the small town of Freeborn, Minnesota, she joined the Women's Army Corps in Chicago in 1943 and rose to Master Sergeant in only three years.
Biographies
Meet Some of Our Heroes
Ten completed biographies. More are added as research is finished.
Band Sergeant · U.S. Army
David Carlton Keene
1894 – 1951
A band sergeant with the 156th Depot Brigade at Camp Jackson, who later became one of the few motorcycle police officers in 1930s Hillsborough County.
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Senior Master Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
Charles Langston
1917 – 1971
Born in Blytheville, Arkansas, he moved to Delta, Texas at the age of three and worked for a food supply company before entering the service.
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Sergeant · U.S. Army Air Forces
Frank S. Morris
1905 – 1959
The son of an Indiana dairy farmer, he moved to Miami-Dade County during the Great Depression and worked for Flamingo Truck Lines before enlisting.
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Corporal · U.S. Army
George ‘Geo’ Collas
1889 – 1952
Born on Christmas Day 1889 in Koroneia, Greece, a town north of the Gulf of Corinth surrounded by hills and mountains, he emigrated in 1907.
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Private · U.S. Army
Frank L. Marston
1874 – ?
Born on the shore of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he enlisted in the First Illinois Infantry and trained in Tampa before leaving for Cuba.
Technical Sergeant · U.S. Army Air Corps
Gordon Edward Durland
1921 – 1981
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he flew B-26 bombers with the 557th Bombardment Squadron — a unit known as “Keller's Killers.”
Corporal · U.S. Army
Michael Joseph Leech
1891 – 1960
Born in the remarkably small village of Killucan, Ireland, a town of fewer than two thousand people, where he spent his childhood.
Second Lieutenant · Florida National Guard / U.S. Army
Rondo Hatton
1894 – 1946
A gifted athlete voted the most handsome boy in his high school, he enlisted in the Florida National Guard in 1916.
Captain · U.S. Air Force
John Thogerson
1916 – 1972
Born in Peoria, Illinois, he spent much of his early life abroad in Panama and Colombia, where his father worked as a civil engineer.