In God We Trust
Browse: Intro | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Left-handed major league pitcher. Born September 18, 1925 in Medway, Ohio, Harvey Haddix died January 8, 1994. He served in the Army 1951-52, playing on the 39th Infantry Regiment baseball team at Ft. Dix. He was a pitcher for the following teams: St. Louis Cardinals (1952-56), Philadelphia Phillies (1956-57), Cincinnati Redlegs (1958), Pittsburgh Pirates (1959-63), and Baltimore Orioles (1964-65).
Actor most famous for his leading roles on the television series, "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dallas." Born September 21, 1931 in Ft. Worth, Texas, he died November 23, 2012 in Dallas, TX. In 1952 Hagman enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and remained on duty until 1956. He was stationed in London during most of his service time, entertaining U.S. military troops who were in Europe during the Korean War years.
Civilian NASA research pilot and Apollo missions astronaut. Born November 14, 1933 in Biloxi, Mississippi, Haise joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a fighter pilot at Cherry Point, North Carolina and an interceptor pilot with the Oklahoma National Guard. He saw active service in three military branches. After the Korean War he received an aeronautical engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. He was assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 8, was a back-up crew for Apollo 11, and worked the Apollo 13 mission.
Drummer with the Anita O'Day Trio and for the Lawrence Welk Show. He was born on December 5, 1928, and gave 32 years of service in the School of Music, University of Florida as Professor of Percussion and Assistant Chair until his retirement in 1989. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was originally with the 6th Division Band and was an Instructor of Percussion in the Band Training Unit in Fort Ord, California and then with the 89th Army Band in Fort Sill, Oklahoma until his discharge.
Born in Ithaca, New York, Haley authored "Roots: The Saga of an American Family." He enlisted in the Coast Guard in the late 1940s and became the Coast Guard's first ever Petty Officer First Class with the rating of Journalist. He held that position until he left the Coast Guard in 1959.
Major League Umpire. William Edward Haller (born February 28, 1935 in Joliet, Illinois) is a retired Major League Baseball umpire. Following service in post-war Korea in 1954-55 with the 24ID, Haller officiated 3,068 regular season games in the American League from 1961 and from 1963–1982. He also worked 15 American League Championship Series games in four series (1970, 1973, 1976 and 1980), 27 World Series contests in four different years (1968, 1972, 1978 and 1982) and four All-Star games (1963, 1970, 1975 and 1981).
Career highlights (per Wikipedia): In 1980, Haller was wearing a microphone as part of a documentary on umpires. After Haller called a balk on Baltimore pitcher Mike Flanagan, the microphone captured an animated tirade directed from Earl Weaver to Haller. Haller was the home plate umpire when Carl Yastrzemski had his 3000th major league hit on September 12, 1979. Haller wore uniform number 1 from 1980 through 1982 after the American League adopted uniform numbers. He retired after the 1982 World Series. He was the last umpire to wear the balloon-style chest protector in a Fall Classic game, calling balls and strikes for Game 2 between the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals. Bill Haller is the older brother of former Major League catcher Tom Haller. He is a member of VFW Post 9770 in Brownstown.
American actor. Born June 12, 1928 in Los Angeles, California, the son of Jesse and Pearl Lee Cooley Hamilton, he was best known for his role as Capt. Harold Dobey in the 1970s television series Starky & Hutch. He served in the Korean War from December 13, 1950 to December 10, 1952. He died December 30, 2008 in Los Angeles.
Naval officer whose signal achievement was her role in the passage of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 which established permanent status for women in all branches of the armed services. Born May 4, 1896 in Wildwood, New Jersey, she enlisted in the Navy in 1918. Her military career spanned three wars. Hancock was commissioned as a lieutenant in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) in October of 1942. At the beginning of the Korean War she supervised the call-up of the Women's Naval Service. Her retirement was mandatory in 1953. The following year she married long-time friend Vice Admiral Ralph Ofstie, who died in 1956. Hancock published her memoir, Lady in the Navy in 1972. She died August 20, 1986.
Born Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr. on January 01, 1930 in New York, New York, Hardin was most known for his starring role as Bronco Layne in the television series Bronco, which aired from 1958 to 1962. After his film career ended he became the leader of a right-wing radical group called The Arizona Patriots. Ty attended OCS at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey after joining the Army He attended flight school in San Marcos, Texas, learning to fly light L-19 aircraft known as the "Birddog". After becoming a 1st Lieutenant, he served three years overseas during the Korean War with occupation forces in Germany. He died in August of 2017.
Born in New York, New York on August 13, 1929, Pat Harrington graduated from Fordham University and then served as an Intelligence Officer with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He acquired the rank of 1st Lieutenant. After his military service he starred on television shows with Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Danny Thomas, Bing Crosby, Dennis Weaver, and others. He was well-known for his role as "The Inspector" and as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider in the television sitcom One Day at a Time from 1975 to 1984.
American screenwriter and film producer/director. Born in New York in 1928, James Harris joined a film exporting company in 1947 and in 1948 became a distributor with Realart Pictures. In 1949 he co-founded Flamingo Films, which distributed movies to television. During the Korean War he served as a cameraman in the U.S. Signal Corps. Because he had some experience in the film business, he was assigned to the Signal Corps Photographic Center at Paramount's old Astoria Studios on Long Island, where training films were produced. After discharge he formed Harris-Kubrick Pictures in 1954. He produced and directed The Killing (1956), Path of Glory (1957), and Lolita (1962). In addition he produced and directed The Bedford Incident (1965) and produced Don Siegel's Telefon (1977).
Big band and jazz musician (trombone) on the Lawrence Welk Show 1960-1982. Born May 3, 1930 in Quincy, Illinois, Havens served as a bandsman in the Illinois National Guard during the Korean War. After the war he played in bands with Al Hurt, Benny Goodman, and others.
Legendary Houston defense attorney. Hayne graduated from the University of Houston Law School. He specialized in what he called "Smith and Wesson" divorces in which wives were charged with killing their husbands. Haynes was born in Houston in 1927 and died April 2017. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II, participating in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was an Army paratrooper in 1951 in the Korean War.
Actor. Haynes served in the Marines from 1952–1964 and during the Korean War. He was a public-affairs officer for the Naval reserve with the rank of Commander. Following his military career, Haynes studied acting at the Film Industries Workshop and Actors West in Los Angeles. His film career included roles in Madigan (1968), Ice Station Zebra (1968), Assault on the Wayne (1971), Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976), The Greatest (1977) and Good Guys Wear Black (1978). Haynes also appeared in a number of television series, such as Batman, the second Star Trek pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", and the miniseries 79 Park Avenue. Haynes was dropped from Star Trek because series producer Gene Roddenberry preferred actress Nichelle Nichols over him. Haynes received the most recognition for his role as schoolteacher Pete Dixon in the ABC situation comedy series Room 222, with Michael Constantine and Karen Valentine. Haynes and Valentine were both nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe Award for their roles. He was born September 19, 1934 in South Bend, Indiana, and died of lung cancer on December 31, 1986 in Coronado, California.
Country western singer, songwriter and record producer. Born July 0, 1929 in Mannford, Oklahoma, Lee Hazlewood was drafted in the Korean War. While in the army he served with Armed Services Radio stations in Japan and Korea. After military service he went on to write million-seller music hits for singers such as Nancy Sinatra (These Boots Are Made for Walkin'), Frank Sinatra (This Town), and Dean Martin (Houston). He died on August 4, 2007 in Henderson, Nevada.
Chairman of the Board of Hearst Corporation, President of the Hearst Foundation and a Director of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Born in San Francisco on July 13, 1927 to George R. Hearst Sr. and Blanche Wilbur Hearst. He served ten years in the military, enlisting in the Naval Air Corps during World War II. He then served in the Army in the Korean War as a combat helicopter pilot. He joined the staff of the Los Angeles Examiner in 1948 and in 1958 he was vice president of Hearst Publishing Company. He became publisher of both the Los Angeles Herald-Express and Los Angeles Examiner in 1960, and publisher of the Los Angeles-Herald Examiner in 1965.
South Dakota state senator (1965-66 & 1969-70) and associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court (1979-1994). Officer in the Army in Korea. Served in Korea 1951-53. Earned a Bronze Star. Born 1928. Died December 28, 2012 at the age of 84.
Screenwriter, actor, director. Born December 09, 1930 as Henry Zuckerman in New York City, after graduating from high school he enlisted in the Army during the Korean War and served first as a helicopter mechanic in West Germany. He was then transferred to Special Services, touring with the 7th Army Repertory Company. He was co-writer for the movie "The Graduate (1967), appeared in such shows as Catch-22, The Owl and the Pussycat and many more, co-directed the show "Heaven Can Wait" and worked with the "Steve Allen Show." These were just a few of has many career achievements. He died January 08, 2020.
Controversial author. Born April 17, 1930 in Herminie, Pennsylvania, Herbert enlisted in the Army in 1947 to become a paratrooper. He was discharged from the peacetime army in 1948 but re-enlisted in February 1950 to become a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He was deployed to Korea in October 1950, where he earned four Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, and four Purple Hearts. He was wounded in Korea multiple times. General Matthew Ridgway chose Herbert to return to the US and travel across the country promoting the war. He was discharged in 1952 to pursue a college education at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1956 he reenlisted as an Army 2nd Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania National Guard. He was deployed to Vietnam in 1968 where he earned another Silver star and two more Bronze Stars, among other decorations. He retired from the Army in February 1972. He authored the controversial book Soldier about his Vietnam experiences, claiming he witnessed atrocities there. These claims became subject of a CBS 60 Minutes segment that resulted in Herbert filing an unsuccessful liable suit against the program commentators. Lieutenant Colonel Herbert later became a police and clinical psychologist. He authored more books, including Making of a Soldier and Military Manual of Self Defense, among others.
Animal trainer and inductee into the International Circus Hall of Fame. His career began in 1937 at the age of 6 in a family act for Barney Bros. Circus. As a teen and adult he trained elephants, horses, camels, llamas and zebras for the circus. He enlisted in the Army at the end of 1952. He trained K-9s and saw combat, earning a Combat Infantryman's Badge. He was a celebrity at the John and Mable Ringling Museum and a performance director for Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus. John Milton Herriott was born January 15, 1931 in St. Peter, Minnesota, and died February 26, 2015 after a circus career that spanned over 50 years.
Major league baseball player and manager who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010. Born November 09, 1931 in the German town of New Athens, Illinois, Whitey Herzog served eight years as a major league baseball player and 19 years managing major leagues. He was in military service in Korea in 1953-54. Before Korea he was on an Army baseball team. He returned to baseball by 1956.
CEO of The Smithsonian Institute and former UC Berkeley Chancellor. Born May 30, 1930 in New York City, Heyman was an editor of Yale Law Journal. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1951 and then served as as 1st Lieutenant in the Korean War. He remained as a captain in the reserves 1953 to 1958. Heyman died November 19, 2011.
Immunogeneticist. William Hildemann, an internationally known authority on the comparative genetics of the immune system, was a professor of microbiology and immunology at UCLA Medical School in Los Angeles. His immunological work helped lead the way to heart and kidney transplants. Bill Hildemann was born in Los Angeles in 1927. Amyotropic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease") claimed his life of on September 8, 1983 after two years of severe illness. He served as a 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Marine Division in Korea.
Director of the Leadership Institute at Hampton University. Bettye Hill was born in San Antonio, Texas on February 15, 1950. She entered the Army Nurse Corps after high school and in June of 1971 she got her first assignment as a clinical staff nurse at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. In June of 1973 she became an instructor of practical nursing at Brooke. In June of 1977 she became head nurse at the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Korea. The next year she became head nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. During her military career she met and married Charles W. Simmons, an Army Reserve Officer. She became the first African-American nurse to hold the dual role of deputy commander of the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School which had 30,000 students on and off-site, and the 20th Chief of the Army Nurse Corps with 4,000 active personnel. Bettye Hill-Simmons retired from active duty in 2000 and then became director of the Leadership Institute at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.
Director, Oscar-nomination for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as well as win for directing The Sting. Born December 20, 1921, Hill died December 27, 2002. During World War II, Hill served in the Marine Corps as a cargo pilot in the South Pacific. The outbreak of the Korean War resulted in his recall to active duty service for 18 months as night fighter pilot, emerging with the rank of major. He was stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point jet flight training center in North Carolina.
Member of Board of Directors of Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (1971 to present) and former vice chairman of the Hilton Hotels Corporation. He began his career with Hilton Hotels in 1949. He attended Texas Western College for two years and had just been accepted to Cornell Hotel School when he was drafted. He served as a radar specialist in the Korean War.
Documentary filmmaker. Born March 13, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, he worked for CBS radio and NBC television in the 1950s. He produced numerous documentaries and earned an Emmy for the 1992 HBO documentary, "Heil Hitler! Confessions of a Hitler Youth." Holch died September 23, 2010 in Greenwich, Connecticut. He served in the US Army during the Korean War.
Co-founder of the Rolling Thunder Rally in Washington, D.C. John Rufus Holland was born March 01, 1927 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, son of Emery and Nora Mae Loomis Holland. He died July 19, 2010 and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Moores Hill, Indiana. He married Anne E. (née Lane) Holland on December 26, 1947. She predeceased him on February 5, 1995. He retired from the United States Military having served with the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945. (He lied about his age to join the United States Marine Corps.) He served in the United States Army from 1947 to 1970, with two tours of duty in Vietnam from 15 June 1968 to 2 December 1968 and from 25 June 1969 to 17 April 1970 and retired at the rank of Sergeant Major (E-9). He served with the 3rd Marine Division during World War II; the 187th Regiment Team in Korea and served four times in Vietnam with the Special Forces and was an original Green Beret. He received the Task Force Omega award in 2004 for outstanding support and dedication to POW/MIA efforts. In 2008, he received the Vietnam Veteran-of-the-Year and was recognized by the Indiana House of Representatives for his dedication to the United States of America. He was recognized at the Aurora Firecracker Festival for having written a law enacted by Congress for the humane treatment of POWs. Among his many medals received were the Combat Infantry Medal with Star, the Marine Corps Action Ribbon, and the Master Jump Wings with two Gold Stars. In retirement, he was an advocate of MIA and POW groups and was one of the four founders of the Rolling Thunder organization. He is survived by six sons and daughters-in-law, John and Cindy Holland, of Henryville, Indiana, Patrick and Charlene Holland, of Moores Hill, Steve and Lisa Holland, of Jacksonville, Florida, Rob Holland, of Burlington, Kentucky, Chris and Cindy Holland, of Clarksville, Indiana, and Eric Holland, of Texas; ; a daughter, Megan Holland, of Madison, Indiana; his brother, Robert Holland, of Pennsylvania; his sister, Luella Brooker, of Lawrenceburg; 15 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
American college football star. He was heavily recruited by a number of top college football teams, including West Point's offensive coach Vince Lombardi. He elected to enroll at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The New York Giants selected Holleder in the 1956 NFL Draft college draft, but Holleder was not interested in a professional football career. After graduating West Point, he continued to serve in the Army.
Over the next ten years he rose to the rank of Major, serving posts in Korea and Germany, and briefly returning to West Point as an instructor and assistant football coach. In 1967, Holleder requested to be sent to Vietnam, where he became the Operations Officer for 2nd Battalion 28th Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division. He was killed in the Battle of Ong Thanh on October 17, 1967 while attempting to rescue a group of his fellow soldiers who had been ambushed. Holleder battled sniper fire to land his helicopter in a clearing. While he was leading the evacuation, he was struck by enemy fire and killed. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. [Source: Website "www.iservedtoo.com" (now offline)]
Admiral Holloway graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1942 as a member of the first three-year class accelerated by U.S. involvement in World War II. During the War, he served aboard destroyers on North Atlantic convoy duty, in North African waters and in the Pacific where he participated in the Saipan, Tinian, Palau, Peleliu campaigns and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Following World War II, Holloway entered flight training and became a naval aviator, and served in Korean and Vietnam. He commanded the USS Enterprise from 1965-67, established the Navy's Nuclear Powered Carrier Program at the Pentagon, commanded the Seventh Fleet in 1972, and served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1974 to 1978. Retired from the Navy since 1970, Holloway currently serves as the Chairman of the Naval Historical Foundation.
Broadway producer, author, occasional film actor (X-files), founder of the Horchow Collection, a subsidiary of Neiman-Marcus. Born July 3, 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from Yale University. After attending Officer Candidate School, he served as a lieutenant in the army during the Korean War. Later he founded the Horchow Collection, the first luxury mail-order catalogue. He is a Tony Award-winning producer of Broadway shows such as "Annie", "Kiss Me, Kate", "Crazy for You", "Curtains", and "Bandstand: The New American Musical.
Surgeon and novelist. Born February 1, 1924, Richard Hornberger graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and then received a medical doctor's degree from Cornell Medical School. He was drafted into the Army during the Korean War and served as a surgeon in the 8055th MASH unit in Korea. After Korea he served as a surgeon in a VA hospital before setting up medical practice in Waterville, Maine as a thoracic surgeon. He remained in that practice until he retired in 1988. In 1968, under the pen name Richard Hooker, Hornberger wrote MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. This was followed by several sequels. MASH was adapted into a motion picture entitled, "M*A*S*H", and was further adapted to a popular television series. Hornberger died at the age of 73 of leukemia on November 4, 1997 in Portland, Maine. It should be noted that several sequels in the MASH series were actually written by ghost writer William E. Butterworth.
Recipient of Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans award, Horrigan is a corporation executive who came from humble beginnings in New York. After graduating from the University of Connecticut with a U.S. Army commission, he became commander of a rifle company in Korea. He was a 1st Lieutenant and Field Communications Chief with the 2nd Infantry Division's Headquarters 2nd Battalion when he was seriously wounded by a missile in Korea on September 21, 1952. He spent six months recovering in a hospital and received a medical discharge. He is the recipient of a Silver Star. According to the Horatio Alger Association, Horrigan, "believes his time as an officer in combat helped him develop the leadership skills that made him a success in business." After Korea he began selling soap for Proctor & Gamble and eventually moved on to executive positions at the Ebonite Company, Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., the Buckingham Corporation, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International. He became vice chairman of the board of RJR Nabisco in 1985 and held that position until he retired in 1989.
Yankees/Red Sox ballplayer. Born February 23, 1929, Howard began his baseball career in 1946, debuting in the Tandy League. He signed with the Kansas City Monarchs, playing left field and filling in at first base. He was sold to the New York Yankees in 1950 but was later drafted into the Army and sent overseas to play baseball in Special Services in Japan in 1953. He returned to the New York Yankees after discharge. He was sold to the Red Sox in 1967. He was the first black American to win the American League's Most Valuable Player award and the first black coach of an American League team. He died in December 1980 at the age of 51.
Minor League baseball player, shortstop. [Source: Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice.com] College Baseball All-America John Hrasch had just started his professional career when military service beckoned. Tragedy was just around the next corner. John Arthur Hrasch, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hrasch, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 22, 1928. He attended Ohio University at Athens, where he played baseball between 1948 and 1950. A slick fielding, right-handed hitting shortstop, Hrasch batted .399 his senior year (.403 over three seasons with the Bobcats, which remains second best), and was the first Bobcat to be named to the College Baseball All-America team as voted by the American Baseball Coaches Association. It was the Pirates who scooped up the big league prospect; Farm Secretary Fred Hering proudly making the announcement that the young infielder had been signed by scout Bill Hinchman in June 1950. On June 16, Hrasch reported to the Charleston Rebels of the Class A South Atlantic League, managed by former major leaguer Rip Sewell. However, he was quickly reassigned to the New Orleans Pelicans of the Class AA Southern Association, where he played 73 games and batted .221. In 1951, Hrasch was back with the Pelicans, reunited with manager Rip Sewell who replaced Bill Burwell as the club's skipper. Yet again, it was to be a brief encounter as Hrasch received orders to report for military duty on May 4. In 13 games, the 22-year-old was batting .319. Private Hrasch was initially assigned to Fort Meade, where he regularly played baseball during the summer months. The following year he was assigned to the Medical Replacement Center at Camp Pickett in Blackstone, Virginia. On August 18, 1952, Private John Hrasch and Second Lieutenant Ronald J. Hickey (a former basketball player at Boston University) were travelling in a car that was involved in a head-on collision with a truck near Ladysmith, Virginia. Both Hrasch (who had just received orders to report to Alaska) and Hickey were killed instantly. Floyd L. Plummer, the driver of the truck, was taken to Fredericksburg Hospital with injuries. John Hrasch was buried at Highland Park Cemetery in Cleveland on August 23, 1952. He was 23 years old.
Sources:
Minor League baseball player. [Source: Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice.com. Jim Hudgens cut short a promising career in baseball to serve his country for three years, only to lose his life in a tragic accident. James Robert Hudgens was born on January 4, 1929 in Tucson, Arizona. In 1946 and 1947, as well as playing football, Hudgens played the outfield for Coach Hank Slagle's Tucson High School Badgers team. After playing freshman baseball at the University of Arizona in 1948, Hudgens was signed by the Wellsville Nitros of the Class D PONY League. He was quickly optioned to the Mahanoy City Bluebirds of the Class D North Atlantic League and then to the Carbondale Pioneers of the same league. The left-handed hitting outfielder played 35 games with the Pioneers and batted .235. In 1948, the 19-year-old played for the pennant-winning Oroville Red Sox of the Class D Far West League and batted .290 in 113 games, including 13 triples. Despite the beginnings of a promising career in professional baseball, Hudgens – back home in Tucson – visited the local recruiting office in November 1948 and enlisted in the Navy for three years. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, Seaman Hudgens served aboard the USS St. Paul (CA-73), a Baltimore-class cruiser. On April 21, 1952, while firing on enemy installations at the Kojo area off the east coast of North Korea, there was an explosion in the forward 8-inch gun turret. Thirty men were killed, including James Hudgens. The explosion occurred in the turret's left gun, which was loaded but had the breech open. The gun captain thought the weapon had fired and told the gun's rammerman to ram another projectile into the gun's breech, causing it to blow up. James Hudgens, who was awarded the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Korean Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal, is buried at Evergreen Memorial Park in Tucson.
Sources:
NFL (Dallas Texans and then Cleveland Browns). Military Career: Humble has an interesting parallel in his career in that he played college football before and after military service and had his pro career repeat the same pattern. Humble's playing days at Rice sandwiched a tour of duty with the Marine Corps in World War II. He was a rifle platoon leader in the 2nd Marine Division at Saipan and the invasion of Okinawa. His actions in battle earned him a first lieutenant commission and a Bronze Star. He then entered the NFL with the Dallas Texans in 1950. The Marines recalled Humble in 1951, during the Korean War, to be an instructor at the Marine Officer School in Quantico, VA. When he completed his instructing duties, Humble returned to the NFL, this time with the Cleveland Browns.
William P. Hunt, Jr., enlisted in the Army on 1 July 1939 and served in a field artillery battery at Fort Monroe, VA. He was discharged to become a Cadet at West Point on 28 June 1940 and was commissioned a 2d lieutenant in the Regular Army on 1 June 1943. He served in the Coastal Artillery Corps until 1946, when he transferred to Infantry. He had brief overseas assignments in the Philippines and Korea from July 1945 through 1947. He served as the Assistant Professor of Military Science at the Citadel and at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, from 1947 to 1950. In 1951 he attended the Air Force Liaison Pilot School at San Marcos, TX. He then attended further training at Fort Sill. In February 1952 he was assigned to the 7th Infantry Division in Korea. On 21 June 1952 he was killed in action as the result of a plane crash.
Prominent attorney who was the youngest inductee of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was the attorney for the Atlantic Coast Conference for more than 25 years. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1949, he enlisted in the Navy during World War II and served in the South Pacific, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was recalled to active duty in the Navy during the Korean War and was a Lieutenant aboard the USS LSMR525, a rocket-firing ship in the Pacific that participated in a number of shore bombardments of North Korea. He was released from active duty in 1953. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1959, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1955, and before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1995. Hunter was born June 13, 1925 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and died January 18, 2018.