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VMI Cadet. October 9, 2009
No full textVolume 103, number 6Weekly during academic year, except during examinations and vacation
VMI Cadet. October 23, 2009
No full textVolume 103, number 8Weekly during academic year, except during examinations and vacation
VMI Cadet. October 30, 2009
No full textVolume 103, number 9Weekly during academic year, except during examinations and vacation
Leonard Lawton Interview
No full textLeonard G. Lawton was born in Orlando, Florida in 1919 and entered the Marines following his graduation from Stetson University in 1941. After completing boot camp and officer training, he served with the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater, where he saw extensive action and witnessed firsthand the conditions of jungle fighting. Lawton was awarded the Silver Star for action on Guadalcanal; the Purple Heart for a wound received in November 1942; two Presidential Unit citations; and one personal letter of citation from ADM William Halsey
Institute Report. December 2009
No full textA publication of the VMI Office of Communications and Marketing containing news and events information. Volume XXXVII, Number
Civil War Broadside. U. S. Army Occupation of Lexington, Virginia, July 1865
No full textFollowing the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox in April 1865, towns throughout the Shenandoah Valley were temporarily occupied by U. S. Army Forces tasked with solidifying federal control and maintaining order. This broadside was posted throughout the town of Lexington, Virginia -- home to the Virginia Military Institute and Washington & Lee University (then called Washington College)
Kenneth Rupe Interview
No full textMr. Rupe was drafted in May 1942 and was assigned to hospital administration in the 300th General Hospital. The unit shipped overseas in the fall of 1943 and Rupe spent the bulk of the war in Naples, Italy in the 300th HQ
William Farmer Interview
No full textMr. Farmer was born in 1926 and joined the Navy after graduating from high school in 1944. He was stationed aboard an LSM (Landing Ship Medium) serving in the Pacific theater. His vessel operated in the Mariana Islands and supported the invasion of Okinawa in the Spring of 1945
Gale Shreffler Interview
No full textFirst Lieut. Gale Shreffler joined the U. S. Army Air Force in 1941. He was a B-29 Navigator based on Tinian Island in the Marianas Islands, where he served with the 313th Bomb Wing, 504th Bomb Group. Shreffler took part in bombing raids over Japan and crash landed on Iwo Jima in July 1945
George Tompkins, Jr. Interview
No full textGeorge J. Tompkins, Jr. enlisted in the U. S. Army in September 1942. He went overseas in 1943 and was assigned to the 1st Signal Company, 1st Infantry Division, as a radio operator. Following time in North Africa, Sicily, and England, Tompkins participated in the Normandy landing on D-Day and subsequently went into Belgium and Germany, where he was in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest. He was discharged in October 1945