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Thanks for Support<strong>in</strong>g The Graybeards<br />
Members are <strong>in</strong>vited to help underwrite the publications costs of The Graybeards. All contributions <strong>in</strong><br />
any amount are welcome. Mail your donations to <strong>KWVA</strong> Treasurer J Tilford Jones, 6958 Heatherknoll<br />
Dr., Dallas, TX 75248-5534. All contributions will be acknowledged, unless the donor specifically<br />
requests to rema<strong>in</strong> anonymous. And, if you have an “In memory of” (IMO) request, <strong>in</strong>clude that as<br />
well. We thank you for your generous support.<br />
CONTRIBUTOR<br />
LOCATION<br />
Anonymous<br />
CA<br />
Raymond Bosch (2)<br />
OH<br />
Steve Bosma<br />
CA<br />
IMO Cpl. Albert Bosma, 45th Inf. Div.<br />
<strong>KWVA</strong> Chapter 71<br />
OH<br />
IMO All departed comrades of CID 71<br />
Dept. of TN & Chapter 86<br />
TN<br />
Gen. Walton H. Walker Chap. 215 TX<br />
IMO Howard Nathan<br />
Charles B. Thacker Chapter 250 VA<br />
Sam Johnson Chapter 270<br />
TX<br />
Howard E. D<strong>in</strong>kel<br />
NY<br />
Gerald H. Hanson<br />
CA<br />
Lloyd W. Harms<br />
OH<br />
IMO Cpl Lloyd C. Vajen – KIA 9/16/52/<br />
IMO Pvt Giles C. L<strong>in</strong>thicum – KIA 3/23/53<br />
John J. Heller<br />
OR<br />
Charles E. Keone<br />
MA<br />
Phillip J. Kuhn<br />
OH<br />
IMO Jim Webster – B-29 crew<br />
Seymour Lehman<br />
NY<br />
Basil N. Manias<br />
MA<br />
IMO Sgt Pasquale Barbiero Co. C,<br />
64th Tnk Bn -3rd Inf. Div.<br />
Nathan N. McCoy<br />
OH<br />
IMO Wilbur G. Marsh – 13th Ord. Co.,<br />
30th Ord. Bn.<br />
CONTRIBUTOR<br />
THE GRAYBEARDS DEADLINES<br />
LOCATION<br />
Russell Merrill<br />
MI<br />
James M. Page<br />
GER<br />
Mary E. Epsey<br />
PA<br />
IMO Sgt Dougall H. Epsey Jr.<br />
W. Todd Reider PA<br />
IMO Sgt Dougall H. Epsey Jr.<br />
Timothy O. Wolosen<br />
NY<br />
IMO Sgt Dougall H. Epsey Jr.<br />
<strong>KWVA</strong> Chapter #54<br />
NJ<br />
IMO Sgt Dougall H. Epsey Jr.<br />
Sophie F. Conkl<strong>in</strong><br />
NY<br />
IMO Sgt Dougall H. Epsey Jr.<br />
Russell Merrill<br />
MI<br />
James M. Page<br />
GER<br />
Chester Paris<br />
MA<br />
John E. Ph<strong>in</strong>azee<br />
GA<br />
Richard V. Poe<br />
HI<br />
IMO Odell Smith and Elmer Seedorff,<br />
Co. I, 65th Regt., 3rd Division<br />
Kenneth N. Roberts<br />
CA<br />
Leo G. Ruff<strong>in</strong>g<br />
VA<br />
Frank E. Sheldon<br />
MI<br />
IMO Duane Havens & Don Horsfall,<br />
715th Bomb Sqd, 509th Bomb W<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Herman Udas<strong>in</strong><br />
NY<br />
Frank F. Walden (C-1-7)<br />
CA<br />
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ELECTION RESULTS 2009 DIRECTORS<br />
Candidates Votes W<strong>in</strong>ner<br />
Richard E. Brown....................................1,372<br />
Luther Dappen........................................1,426 ......................................X<br />
Marv<strong>in</strong> Dunn ..........................................2,064 ......................................X<br />
Arthur S. Griff<strong>in</strong>......................................1,079<br />
Glen Thompson ......................................1,717 ......................................X<br />
Ezra Williams ........................................1,641 ......................................X<br />
BUSINESS<br />
Miss<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Action<br />
From Korean<br />
War is Identified<br />
The Department of Defense<br />
POW/Miss<strong>in</strong>g Personnel Office<br />
announced that the rema<strong>in</strong>s of a U.S. serviceman,<br />
miss<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> action from the Korean<br />
War, have been identified and were returned<br />
to his family for burial with full military honors.<br />
He is Sgt. Dougall H. Espey Jr., U.S.<br />
Army, of Mount Laurel, N.J. He was buried<br />
April 3 <strong>in</strong> Elmira, NY.<br />
Representatives from the Army’s<br />
Mortuary Office met with Espey’s next-ofk<strong>in</strong><br />
to expla<strong>in</strong> the recovery and identification<br />
process on behalf of the Secretary of the<br />
Army.<br />
Espey was assigned to Company L, 3rd<br />
Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry<br />
Division. On Nov. 1, 1950, the 8th Cavalry<br />
was occupy<strong>in</strong>g a defensive position near<br />
Unsan, North Korea, <strong>in</strong> an area known as the<br />
“Camel’s Head,” when elements of two<br />
Ch<strong>in</strong>ese Communist Forces divisions struck<br />
the 1st Cavalry Division’s l<strong>in</strong>es, collaps<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the perimeter and forc<strong>in</strong>g a withdrawal. The<br />
3rd Battalion was surrounded and effectively<br />
ceased to exist as a fight<strong>in</strong>g unit. Espey was<br />
one of the more than 350 servicemen unaccounted-for<br />
from the battle at Unsan.<br />
Between 1991-94, North Korea turned<br />
over to the U.S. 208 boxes of rema<strong>in</strong>s<br />
believed to conta<strong>in</strong> the rema<strong>in</strong>s of 200-400<br />
U.S. servicemen. North Korean documents<br />
turned over with several boxes <strong>in</strong> 1993 <strong>in</strong>dicated<br />
that the rema<strong>in</strong>s from those boxes were<br />
exhumed near Chonsung-Ri, Unsan County.<br />
This location correlates with Espey’s last<br />
known location.<br />
Among other forensic identification tools<br />
and circumstantial evidence, scientists from<br />
the Jo<strong>in</strong>t POW/MIA Account<strong>in</strong>g Command<br />
and the Armed Forces DNA Identification<br />
Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA<br />
and dental comparisons <strong>in</strong> the identification<br />
of the rema<strong>in</strong>s.<br />
For additional <strong>in</strong>formation on the Defense<br />
Department’s mission to account for miss<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at<br />
www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.<br />
NOTE: Sgt Espey’s name will be added to<br />
the NJ Korean War Memorial, Atlantic<br />
City.<br />
7<br />
The Graybeards<br />
May – June 2009