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02-02-2010, 12:20
We are putting up a wall exhibit on the Special Operations Distinguished Service Cross recipients from World War II until the present. The exhibit will be mounted in COL Aaron Bank Hall, the academic facility for the US Army JFK Special Warfare Center and School. The exhibit will be interactive, allowing people to go up to the wall display and look at individual DSC recipients by pressing a name or a unit or a conflict. Each DSC recipient will have, at a minimum a citation and an insignia identifying who they were affiliated. We are also trying to put a photo(s)and a small bio with each. We have 59 who were part of OSS. Many of these were from the French Army.
They are:
LT Calhoun Ancrum Jr.
BG Spencer Bell Akin
LT Claude Arnault
LT Lief Bangsboll
LT Maurice M.R. Basset
CPT Douglas Bazata
SGT Raphael G. Beunong (Bretton)
LT Marcel Bessony (French)
Sous-LT Pierre Binet (French)
MAJ John H. Bonsan (P)
SGT Andre Bouchardon
T3 Herb Brucker
Sous-LT Georges Clement (Fr)
2LT Robert A. Cormier
1SG Roger E. Cote (P)
2LT Emile R. Cournasse (Fr)
Cmdt Phillipe A. Crevoisier De Verecourt (Fr)
CPT Paul Cyr
Sous-LT Andre Degorso (Fr)
Sous-LT Marcel Delhomme (Fr)
LT Jean M. D'Errecalde (P)
Cmdt Phillippe A. Crevoisier Deverecourt (Fr)
LT Rene A. Dussaq
MAJ Linn M. Farrish (P) - 2667th Recon Regt
CPT Charles O. Fisher (P) - 2667th Recon Regt
2LT Ernest F. Floege
LT (USN) James Harvey Gaul (P) - 2677th Recon Bn.
LT (USN) James H. Green (P) - 2677th Recon Bn.
Sous-LT Andre Guillebaud (Fr)
LT Jeannette Guyot (Fr)
Virginia Hall
CPT Roderick G.S. Hall (P) - 2677th Recon Bn
(LT) SGT Louis G.V. Hyde
CPT Charles O. Ishar
(CPT) LT Owen D. Johnson
Sous-LT Joseph M. Jourden (Fr)
1SG Robert R. Kehoe
LT Tibor K. Keszthelyi - 2677 Recon Regt.
Sous-LT Georges A. Lassalle (Fr)
CPT Victor J. Layton
LT Jacques L. Lebaigue
LT George LeClercz(Fr)
PVT Maurice L. Martin
MAJ John "Pappy" M. Olmstead
CPT Andre E. Pequet
Sous-LT Robert Reitzer (Fr)
Cmdt Vincent Saubestre (Fr)
LT William Savy (Fr)
CPT Lloyd G. Smith
2LT Andre Studler
MAJ John W. Summers
LT Paul A. Swank
LT Harvey Allan Todd
Sous-LT Rene A. Veuve (Fr)
Sous-LT Jacques L. Voyer (Fr)
(CPT) LT George S. Wuchnich
The (P) after the name denotes the man received the award posthumously.
The (Fr) are those members who were part of the French Army.
The rank in parenthesis before the name is for those who were promoted to that rank after the award was submitted.
If anyone has photos, if you could scan them at 300 dpi to the size of 8" x 10", and save as a .jpg, I would appreciate it. If you would like to send the photos to me, I can scan and return overnight express. Please do not send them embedded in an e-mail (as opposed to attached)as I cannot retrieve them and put them in the document. They will not hold up when blown up. Saving the files as .tiff, .bmp or .gif files will pixelate badly when blown up.
If anyone has any information on any of these heroes, I would appreciate it and we will add it. This makes the person on the screen more human to the students who will be accessing this display.
Thank you for your assistance in this effort.
ROXANNE M. MERRITT
Director, JFK Special Warfare Museum
910-432-4272/1533; DSN 239
910-432-4062 fac; DSN: 239
merrittr@soc.mil; Roxanne.M.Merritt@us.army.mil
They are:
LT Calhoun Ancrum Jr.
BG Spencer Bell Akin
LT Claude Arnault
LT Lief Bangsboll
LT Maurice M.R. Basset
CPT Douglas Bazata
SGT Raphael G. Beunong (Bretton)
LT Marcel Bessony (French)
Sous-LT Pierre Binet (French)
MAJ John H. Bonsan (P)
SGT Andre Bouchardon
T3 Herb Brucker
Sous-LT Georges Clement (Fr)
2LT Robert A. Cormier
1SG Roger E. Cote (P)
2LT Emile R. Cournasse (Fr)
Cmdt Phillipe A. Crevoisier De Verecourt (Fr)
CPT Paul Cyr
Sous-LT Andre Degorso (Fr)
Sous-LT Marcel Delhomme (Fr)
LT Jean M. D'Errecalde (P)
Cmdt Phillippe A. Crevoisier Deverecourt (Fr)
LT Rene A. Dussaq
MAJ Linn M. Farrish (P) - 2667th Recon Regt
CPT Charles O. Fisher (P) - 2667th Recon Regt
2LT Ernest F. Floege
LT (USN) James Harvey Gaul (P) - 2677th Recon Bn.
LT (USN) James H. Green (P) - 2677th Recon Bn.
Sous-LT Andre Guillebaud (Fr)
LT Jeannette Guyot (Fr)
Virginia Hall
CPT Roderick G.S. Hall (P) - 2677th Recon Bn
(LT) SGT Louis G.V. Hyde
CPT Charles O. Ishar
(CPT) LT Owen D. Johnson
Sous-LT Joseph M. Jourden (Fr)
1SG Robert R. Kehoe
LT Tibor K. Keszthelyi - 2677 Recon Regt.
Sous-LT Georges A. Lassalle (Fr)
CPT Victor J. Layton
LT Jacques L. Lebaigue
LT George LeClercz(Fr)
PVT Maurice L. Martin
MAJ John "Pappy" M. Olmstead
CPT Andre E. Pequet
Sous-LT Robert Reitzer (Fr)
Cmdt Vincent Saubestre (Fr)
LT William Savy (Fr)
CPT Lloyd G. Smith
2LT Andre Studler
MAJ John W. Summers
LT Paul A. Swank
LT Harvey Allan Todd
Sous-LT Rene A. Veuve (Fr)
Sous-LT Jacques L. Voyer (Fr)
(CPT) LT George S. Wuchnich
The (P) after the name denotes the man received the award posthumously.
The (Fr) are those members who were part of the French Army.
The rank in parenthesis before the name is for those who were promoted to that rank after the award was submitted.
If anyone has photos, if you could scan them at 300 dpi to the size of 8" x 10", and save as a .jpg, I would appreciate it. If you would like to send the photos to me, I can scan and return overnight express. Please do not send them embedded in an e-mail (as opposed to attached)as I cannot retrieve them and put them in the document. They will not hold up when blown up. Saving the files as .tiff, .bmp or .gif files will pixelate badly when blown up.
If anyone has any information on any of these heroes, I would appreciate it and we will add it. This makes the person on the screen more human to the students who will be accessing this display.
Thank you for your assistance in this effort.
ROXANNE M. MERRITT
Director, JFK Special Warfare Museum
910-432-4272/1533; DSN 239
910-432-4062 fac; DSN: 239
merrittr@soc.mil; Roxanne.M.Merritt@us.army.mil