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with COMAAWSEAFRON. On return stateside he was A-3 and Air Inspector of the 46th Wing (Dalhart, Texas) and then Group CO of the 469th Group (B-17) at Alexandria, La. From there he went to Italy and was Deputy CO then CO of the 98th Bomb Group (B-24). After that tour, came a short time with the Evaluation Board and made a bomb damage survey of Ploesti. Returning to the states he was assigned to AMC with duty in Rome, N. Y., Seattle, Washington and San Antonio, Texas. For the last two years before coming to school he was Comptroller of SAAMA. So he is to be comproller, TAU. His hobbies are golf, cooking, carpentry and photography. His wife, Sheila, another Army Brat also calls San Antonio home. Children are Marshall, Jr. (age 9), Gillian (age 4), and Susan Quaintance (age 2).

PERRY BRUCE GRIFFITH, COLONEL, USAF, 1075A

Perry was born in Wichita, Kansas, 26 May, 1911, the town he regards as home as much as any place, two others being Monterey, California, and Miami Beach. He graduated from THE ROCK PILE in 1934 into the cavalry; went to the cavalry school in 1938, and the Advanced Equitation Course the next year. In 1940, he saw the handwriting on the wall, went to flying school, becoming a fly boy in early 1941. During the war he commanded the 72nd Reconnaissance Group, the VI Support Command, and for a year the Army, Navy, and Air Units in the Galapagos Islands. In 1942 he flew anti-sub patrols out of Panama, and later over East Pacific waters. When the war ended, he was on his way to USAFSTAF. Other commands have been Howard and Albrook Field, C.A; Gowen Field (Bombardment Training School), Idaho; Bowman Field, Kentucky. New job is CO of Kirtland Field, New Mexico. With encroaching gray hair and a paunch, he takes a dim view of sports. Having been a diver at West Point, the coach worked him so hard he swore he would never go off a board after he graduated - a vow he has kept, almost. He quit polo in 1939; gave up golf in disgust this year, still likes to fish - in a boat at sea, not on land. Perry's wife was Florence Huntington Parker, an army brat known as "The Red Head," their kids are Florence H. P., Jr.; "Dinky," Parker Bruce, "Pete" and a dachshund named Pierre. Perry is the dope who drew the horrible pictures in this book, thereby creating 135 enemies in his class along with divers faculty watchdogs.

WILLIAM S. GUEST, COMMANDER, USN, 74880

"Bill" was born 3 July 1913 in Rome, Ga. He graduated from the USNA in 1935. After serving on battleships and destroyers, he was assigned to Pensacola for flight training in 1938. Thereafter, he was a dive bomber pilot in the (old) Yorktown Air Gp. until June 1942. During this time the Yorktown operated in the North Atlantic (convoy cover), the Coral Sea, and the Central Pacific. Following the next five months as executive officer of a carrier torpedo sqdn., he proceeded to the staff of Comdr. Fleet Aircraft West Coast where he was responsible for the training of replacement air groups. Subsequently, from Aug. 1943 to Jan. 1944, he was Operations officer to

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