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he was employed by that company as industrial sales engineer. Later he was employed by the U.S. Forest Service as an engineer and as a training officer. In 1940, he was ordered to active duty as a Captain in the Coast Artillery Corps. After completing a special battery commander's course at the Coast Artillery School he was assigned as a battery commander in the 99th CA Regiment (AAA) at Camp David. N.C. In November 1941 he became S-3 of that regiment and remained in that assignment until June 1943 when he became a battalion commander. He attended the C&GS School in 1942 and accompanied his regiment to Trinidad, B.W.I. in April 1942. Shortly after his return to the States he was assigned in early 1944 as a member of an AGF proficiency testing team. He attended the Naval School of Military Government at Princeton University and was shipped as a Military Government Unit Commander to the Pacific in early 1945. He participated in the battle for Okinawa an in September 1945 accompanied the XXIV Corps into Korea where he was first Chief of Planning and later Civil Administrator at Hq, USAMGIK. Returning to the States in 1946 he was integrated in the Regular Army and became Director of Instruction at the School for the Government of Occupied Areas at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. In late 1946 he was transferred to Washington and assigned to the Civil Affairs Div of the WD. In 1949 he was transferred to the P&O Div., General Staff, Dept. of Army, where he remained until he reported to the AWC. Walt will report to the AA and GM Center at Ft. Bliss, Texas, upon completion of the course. His wife, Connie, is from Natchez, Miss. Children are Angela (age 13) and Rebecca (Age 10).

ROGER C. MEAD, GROUP CAPTAIN, RAF, 26115

Roger was born 23 Jan 1909, in Sussex, England. He was educated at Lancing College, and at the Royal Air Force Cadet College at Cranwell, which he joined in September 1927 and from which he was commissioned in July 1929 on posting to an Army Cooperation Squadron in Yorkshire. Three years in India with another A. C. Squadron followed, and then he was trained as a flying instructor in England. After three years instructing with the Oxford University Air Squadron and a Reserve Bomber Squadron he was posted as Adjutant at Ambala, India, thence to command No. 20 (A.C.) Squadron and the RAF Station at Peshawar in October 1938. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he started a Flying Training School for RAF Reservists and the Indian Air Force at Risalpur. On return to the United Kingdom in 1941 he was employed as Chief Instructor to Two Flying Training Schools. In 1943 he was given command of the Coastal Command Anti-Submarine stations at Holmsley South and then St Eval in Cornwall. After the Invasion of Normandy he went to command the Coastal station at Lagens in the Azores, with two RAF squadrons, one U. S. Navy anti-submarine squadron, and a large USAF construction and staging post unit. After attending the RAF Staff College he was Sr. Air Staff Officer, 23 Group and command No. 2 F.T.S. Roger's hobbies are shooting, photography and squash. His wife, Monica, is from Malaya, children Angela (age 11), Judith (age 8), and Nicola (age 7).

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