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unusual facts about Leonard F. Wing


Leonard F. Wing

It played a vital role in the capture of the Ipo Dam outside Manila, Philippines, taking the city's main water source intact and breaking Japanese resistance, an action for which it received the U.S. Presidential Unit Citation and the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation.


578th Strategic Missile Squadron

Reactivated in 1961 as a Strategic Air Command SM-65F Atlas ICBM launch squadron, stationed at Dyess AFB, Texas and assigned to the 96th Bombardment (later Strategic Aerospace) Wing on 1 July 1961.

Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. was the first to hold the billet and went on to become Commandant, as well as five others: Randolph M. Pate, Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., Robert H. Barrow, Paul X. Kelley and James F. Amos.

Eugene E. Wing

On 10 FEB 1942, General Richard K. Sutherland, MacArthur's Chief of Staff gave permission to Wing to sail the blockade.

Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.

In retirement, he served as the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

After completing The Basic School at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Chapman served with the 1st Battalion, 10th Marines at Quantico, Virginia, from April 1936 until August 1937.

General Chapman retired January 1, 1972 and became Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Leonard F. Morse

Morse continued his education by earning a Master’s degree from Northwestern University and two Doctorates in Metaphysics and Psychology from the College of Metaphysics in Indianapolis, Indiana.


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