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first Mashal and Gilbert Island raids; the Battle of the Coral Sea; and then rushed back to get sunk at the Battle of Midway. He took over command of Scouting Squadron Six in July 1942 and operated in and around Guadalcanal until July 1943. He returned to San Diego and served as Operations Officer for Commander Fleet Air West Coast until April 1945. He then became the Executive Officer of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. In June 1946 he commanded the Tactical Air Control Group Atlantic. In 1947 he moved to Washington as Aviation Detail Officer under the Chief of Naval Operations, from which duty he reported to the AWC. His next assignment is to Command Transport Squadron One, based at Patuxent River, Md. Hobbies are golf and bowling. Wife, Dottie, is from Vallejo, California. Children are Ronny (12), Denny (10), and Bruce (4).

WILLIAM C. CAPEHART, LT. COLONEL, USMC, 05595

"Squareknot" as he is sometimes called, was born 13 January 1915, and hails from Camden, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (B.S., Chem. Eng). He enlisted in 1935 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 15 July 1937. Served aboard the USS Wyoming, and Cuba and West Indies. In 1941 he attended the Artillery School (Battery Officers' Course) at Ft. Sill. Rejoining his regiment as a Battery Commander, he landed with the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942, where he was wounded. After the Eastern Solomons Campaign, he was transferred to Melbourne, Australia; thence to the Advanced Officers' Course at Ft. Sill (1943). Upon graduation, he was assigned to the Marine Corps Schools as an artillery instructor. In early 1944, he returned overseas and joined the 2nd Marine Division, participated in the Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa campaigns serving consecutively as Bn. C., R-3, R-Exec., and Acting Regimental Commander. He led a small task unit which seized Agrihan Island, Northern Mariannas, in June 1945. From September 1945 until June 1946, he served as Provost Marshal of Nagasaki Prefecture (Nagasaki, Omura, Sasebo). When the division returned to the U.S., he was ordered to Dallas, Texas, to activate a Marine Reserve Unit (Artillery Battalion), and served as its inspector-instructor until he was ordered to the Air War College in August 1949. From here he goes to the Marine Corps Schools as an instructor of artillery. His wife, Betty, is from Georgetown, South Carolina. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born at Maxwell Field in November 1949.

JOHN H. CARTER, COLONEL, USAF, 1953A

Born Sioux Co. Iowa 2 April 1914. Raised in Southern California. Attended Pasadena Jr. College, Lingman University Canton, China, and Stanford University. AB in Engineering, Stanford, June 1938. Entered service from Pasadena, California in June 1938 as a Flying Cadet. Trained at Randolph and Kelly received wings at Kelly on 25 May 1939. From July 1939 to July 1941 he was stationed in Panama with duty as Operations Officer of 7th Recon. Sq., 25th Bomb Sq, and 3rd Bomb Sq. Received regular commission on 30 April 1940. Assigned to Air Corps Engineering School at Wright Field in procurement division as Project