- SURNAME
Weston
- FORENAME
Logan Ernest
- UNIT
3 Bn (Khaki Combat Team)
- RANK
First Lieutenant
- NUMBER
0-1795021
- AWARD
Bronze Star,Purple Heart
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Youngstown,Mahoning County,Ohio
born 5.1.1914 Illinois
son of Newell Ernest and Agnes Elizabeth (nee Anderson) Weston
attended Transylvania Bible School 1939-41
driver in civilian life
enlisted 25.1.1941 Cleveland,Ohio (Private 35006223)
145 Infantry Regiment (Company H) (37 Division)
Staff Sergeant 1942
Battle Field Commission 1943 (2nd Lt)
Merrills Marauders 1943-44 (2 Lt - 1Lt)
WIA 5.4.1944 Burma
hospitalised in Ledo,India
Infantry Replacement Training Center,Anniston,Alabama
Infantry Training Center,Fort Benning,Georgia
discharged 1945 Fort Bragg,North Carolina
re-enrolled Transylvania Bible School
re-enlisted March 1948
Fort Mead,Maryland (Post Information and Education Officer) (2 years)
17 Infantry Regiment (Company H) (7 Division) 1950
27 Infantry Regiment (Company A) (25 Division)
WIA 3 times in Korea (awarded D.S.C.)
promoted Major c.November 1950
27 Infantry Regiment (Bn Plans and Training Officer)
awarded Silver Star for Korea 1951
instructor,Fort Benning,Georgia
43 Infantry Division,Germany (various staff appointments)
Fort Carson,Colorado (Division Plans and Training Officer)
Command and General Staff College
Pentagon (3 years) (Lt Colonel)
XO + CO 325 Battle Group,82 Airborne Division 1961
Special Forces Advisor,MAAG,Laos
Fort Sam Houston,Texas
retired 1968 (Colonel)
awards DSC,Silver Star with oak leaf cluster,Bronze Star with 3 oak leaf clusters,Purple Heart with 3 oak leaf clusters
staff,Texas A&M University (13 years)
completed his Masters and Doctor of Bible Philosophy degrees at Texas A&M
married Mary M. 14.2.1948 (1924-2005)
died 5.5.2003 Fort Mill,South Carolina
Peters Cemetery,Venango Township,Crawford County,Pennsylvania Lower G Row 9 Lot 9
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