Briar Dee Haslam USS Corregidor Briar Dee Haslam served in the Navy and attained the rank of aviation mechanist's mate. He received five battle stars for his outstanding service. He was aboard the USS Corregidor aircraft carrier for three years and was in five major battles in the Pacific. Francis Kieth Hassel Francis Kieth Hassel served in the Navy, and trained at Farragut, Idaho. He spent three and a half years at the Naval Air Station in San Diego, California. He received a Superior Performance Award and other medals. Dale Hatch As an aviation ordnance man-first class, in the Navy from March 1943 to November of 1945, Dale spent over a year of that time working on naval aircraft on Espiritu Santo Island in the New Hebrides, South Pacific. Dale R. Hawkins_ Dale R. Hawkins graduated from South High School in Salt Lake City in 1943, joined the Naval Air Corps, and was a pilot in WWII. He attended the University of Utah where he studied civil engineering and graduated with BS and MS degrees in Banking, Finance and Economics after which he received his PhD from New York University. He returned to school and obtained an additional BS degree in Data Processing from Weber State. He served as clerk treasurer of the Wasatch and Uintah County School Districts; taught at Davis High School and was professor of finance at Weber State University from 1961 to 1987. Jay M. Holmes Jay Holmes was on the USS Hadley (DD774) when it was bombed by a Japanese suicide bomber, and he survived the sinking ship. He attained the rank of seaman first class in the Navy. (George) Scott Jackson 164 Scott served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946 with a rank of coxswain SV-6. He had effective missions in the Marianas, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Manus, Leyte, Palau, Luzon, Lingayen Gulf, Okinawa, Singapore, Colombo and Cape Town. Scott attended Weber from 1948-1949, as have all his living children, with three receiving bachelor degrees. J. LaMar Jensen LaMar was in the Navy where he served for one year, one month and six days. He was temporarily assigned to the U.S. Navy Recruiting Station in Salt Lake City. The war ended, and they didn't know what to do with those just starting out in the Navy. He was sent to a place in Chicago called Ship's Company for a month or so. In Chicago, he was sent to the Hugh Manley School for a few weeks. At this time, they tried to get him to join the regular Navy; when he indicated that he didn't want to do this, he was discharged. Clifford Johnson I spent from 1943 to 1946 in the Navy as an electronic technician. The Navy sent me to school at Michigan City, Indiana; the University of Houston in Texas, and Treasure Island in San Francisco, California, to study advanced electronics. From Treasure Island, I went to Brisbane, Australia, as a first class electronic technician to install the new bran navigation systems on submarines and to collect the materials needed to build permanent land based fleet control radio transmitting stations for the Seventh fleet flag. My unit took these materials north to Bougainville, Green Island, and Hollandia, New Guinea, to set up stations. From Hollandia, we joined the convoy for the invasion of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. We landed on Leyte 58 minutes after the first wave, where we went inland about 20 miles and built a 51-foot transmitter station to control the Fifth and Seventh fleet and Taskforce 58. From here, we flew to Clark Field on Luzon and worked our way south to the north side of Manila where we built the largest radio station in the Pacific. Six months after the war ended, we were shipped home. Warren V. Judd World War II was still going on when I graduated from high school in May of 1945, so I enlisted in the U.S. Navy and spent my 18th birthday in 'boot camp' at the U.S. Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. After sixteen weeks of recruit training, I was assigned to Ship's Company, as a yeoman in the administration building, 'next door' to the admiral in charge of the Naval Training Center. For the next two years, I shared an office with Thomas S. Monson, where I served as transfer yeoman in the IBM and classification offices. There, I typed draft orders which sent recruits who had just completed their basic training for additional trade schooling or to sea duty assignments. During this time, I was called on to be group leader; and with this responsibility, conducted church services each Sunday for the approximately three-hundred Latter-Day Saint servicemen at the Naval Training Center. The last year of my three-year enlistment in the Navy was served at sea in the Pacific Ocean, as captain's writer on board the USS President Hayes (APA-20). This was a troop transport, which carried U.S. servicemen and their families from the continental U.S., Hawaii, and Guam, as they came back stateside after World War II for discharge from the service or for further active duty assignments in the Pacific. One of my duties on the ship was to publish the ship's newspaper each night while we were at sea. However, I suffered severely from chronic seasickness while aboard ship, and no medication seemed to help me get over this debilitating condition. Each night at midnight, I would get the 'rough' news copy from the 165