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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 56967" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lawson</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ralph B.</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 Bn (Khaki Combat Team)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Private</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>06286068</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bronze Star</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burma 1944</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Wagoner County,Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 10.6.1921 Middletown,Ohio</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Elbert Preston and Louise Ann (nee Wells) Lawson</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attended schools in Coweta and Bixby</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 year high school</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 6.7.1938 Tulsa,Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>18 Field Artillery (2 Bn)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>74 Field Artillery (Battery C) 1940 (Sgt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discharged 9.7.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>re-enlisted 14.8.1941 Oklahoma City,Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>183 Field Artillery</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>98 Field Artillery Bn (Pack) 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Merrills Marauders 1.10.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1850 Service Command Unit,Camp Chaffee,Arkansas 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discharged June 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>headstone reads Corporal USAAF</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>warehouseman,S&H Kress,Tulsa (19 years)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>McDonnell Douglas Aircraft</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ramsey Winch (shipping and receiving department)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Catoosa Public School (transportation and food service program) (retired 1983)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Ida Bell Estep 3.6.1945 (2 sons Gary and Jerry)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>last residence Catoosa,Oklahoma (last 44 years)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 13.11.2012 Springfield,Missouri</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Fort Gibson National Cemetery,Fort Gibson,Muskogee County,Oklahoma Section 24 Site 575</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-lawson.29136/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29136-6983f6d276869c3c0b51e44e339eb175.jpg?1591434274" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29135-9741e03076cfb416ed9fc949e1fcae63.jpg?1591434274" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-lawson.29134/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29134-2e6063b4c2c5a9f8fef3fbb0d7b5cda3.jpg?1591434274" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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