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Military Service Pages !!

They are out there.....they're everywhere !
 

               

Pictures of Leominster People in Service, At Home and
Abroad, Yesterday and Today, Alive and Remembered.

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Walt was trained from  New York to Mississippi & served from
Vermont to  Georgia and from Greenland to Jordan & Southeast Asia.

He served the United Nations for almost 5 years, out of Jerusalem, Jordan,
and participated in the evacuation of dependents prior to the Six Day War.

In the Viet Nam War, he  flew 97 Combat - Reccy missions over all of Southeast Asia &
performed Recruiter Duty for 3 years before retiring in 1972 !

SSgt. Knowles on an Airfield while on a
United Nations Mission in Jerusalem, Jordan.
 United Nations Mission 1963 - 1967

Walt, left, and co-workers joke with Captain Plunkett about his newest Award from a prior assignment.

Mission Aircraft  "Scarlet"
On the first day of the Six Day War
(June 5 -10, 1967), just before their last evacuation flight, she was destroyed by two Missiles while parked at Amman, Jordan.
A Real Military Family !

 Son Cory Knowles, MSgt. USAF Retired,
Grandson Kris Knowles, BM-2 USCG
3rd in Command of an 87 foot Patrol Boat
Cape May, NJ
& Walt Knowles, MSgt. USAF Retired
 

 Walt & Sue Knowles

TSgt. Knowles Swears His 4th Re-enlistemnt
Oath to a Marine Bird Colonel Onboard Scarlet,
300 feet BELOW Sea-Level Over the Dead Sea.
LHS 1952      MSgt. Walt Knowles,  USAF  1952 - 1972

                                      

 

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