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He is a lover of all sports and won major letters in football, basketball and baseball while at the Naval Academy. Highlights of his extra-curricular activities included duties as assistant end coach to Tom Hamilton on the Fleet's West Navy Team and two years when Tom was head coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. 

His new duty assignment will be Commanding Officer of an AEW squadron (VC-11) San Diego, California. His wife, Alice, is from White Plains, N.Y. They have two boys - Hamilton (age 16) and Bob, (age 14).

MURRAY A. BYWATER, COLONEL, USAF, 1586A

Murray was born February 7, 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1936 (Business Administration with one year of Engineering). He entered Air Corps Primary Flying School in July class of 1936. Graduated from Kelly Field in Attack Aviation in June 1937. His first tactical station was March Field, California, 17th Attack Group. He was assigned as Flight Section Chief of 1st Wing in 1939 and subsequently transferred to 38th Recon. Sq. Laff for TDY on Aviation Cadet Examining Board in December 1940 and continued until March 1942. He returned to 41st Bomb Group (M) in March 1942 and was assigned as Asst. Operations Officer. Sent to G-3 Course at Ft. Leavenworth in July 1942 and assumed command of 47th Bomb Sqdn, North Island, California in September of 1942 and returned to be Group Operations Officer of 41st Gp (M) in January 1943. Appointed Deputy Group Commander in June 1943 and made Group Commander in August 1943 to take the group overseas to 7th Air Force. He entered combat in December 1943 and continued until the end of the war in operations through the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, the Carolinas, Marianas, Ryu Kus, Japan and China. Later, he went to the Philippine Islands in Hq, PACUSA (Pacific Air Command) and then returned to the ZI and assigned to Research and Development in Hq, USAF, 1946. After three years in this assignment he attended Air War College, Class of 1949-1950. He was assigned to DCS/O, Assistant for Atomic Energy from Air War College. His hobbies - athletics and music. His wife, Frankie Lale, is from Riverside, California. Teresa Kaye (daughter) was born in Washington D.C. at high noon on the 4th of July. (She's her daddy's "Yankee Doodle Sweetheart").

NORWOOD A CAMPBELL, CAPTAIN, USN, 63139

"Soupy" was born 29 June 1907, and calls Lafayette, Indiana his home. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1930. From 1930 to 1943 he served aboard the USS Nevada in the Pacific Fleet. Flight training at Pensacola, Florida and then 2 years in fighting Squadron Six of the USS Saratoga air-group, based on the West Coast. In 1937 assigned to the USS Minneapolis for one year. 1938 to 1940 as an instructor at Pensacola. In 1940 reported to the original USS Yorktown for duty as landing signal officer and took part in

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