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Report: Military Service

         Description: Military Service



honoring our relatives that have served this country. This list is "in progress" and by no means comlete. If you feel we've overlooked someone please contact us using the "Suggest" tab on the top of their page.


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# Person ID Last Name, Given Name(s) Birth Date Death Date Military Service: Place Military Service
951 I7379  Kauffman, Rear Admiral Draper Laurence  4 Aug 1911  18 Aug 1979  U.S. Navy, WWII   Draper Laurence Kauffman graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1933. Poor eyesight denied him a commission in the regular Navy. Employed by the United States Line Steamship Company, his travels in Europe alerted him to the danger of Nazi Germany. In February 1940, he joined the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps in France. On 16 June, he was captured by the Germans and held prisoner for two months. Released in August, he made his way to England and was commissioned a sub-Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, later rising to Lieutenant. At the height of the Blitz on London (1940 - 41), he served as a bomb and mine disposal officer, and achieved a high degree of proficiency in bomb disposal techniques.

Securing a U.S. Naval Reserve commission a month before Pearl Harbor, Kauffman was rushed to Hawaii after the Japanese attack, and there disarmed an enemy bomb, the first to be recovered intact for study.

After establishing bomb disposal schools for the Navy and the Army. LT. Commander Kauffman in 1943 organized the Navy's first demolition units - later to be known as Underwater Demolition Teams. After commanding all UDTs in the invasion of Saipan, Tinian and Guam, Commander Kauffman planned and directed UDTs operations at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

His first postwar assignment came in February 1946 when he was assigned to Joint Task Force One, the organization which conducted Operation CROSSROADS, the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Later under the CNO, as head of the Defense and Protection Section, he established the U.S. Navy Radiological Safety School, and aided in setting-up a comparable school for the Army.
In 1954, Captain Kauffman served in the Strategic Plans Division under the CNO, and in 1955 was appointed Aide to Secretary of the Navy, Thomas S. Gates, Jr.

In July of 1960, Kauffman was selected as Rear Admiral. In 1962, he became Chief of the Strategic Plans and Policy Division. In 1965, he became the 44th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he served for three years. His next assignment was as the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces in the Philippines, and Representative of the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, a billet once filled 25 years earlier by his father.

On 1 June 1973, Admiral Kauffman retired from the Navy.

-U.S. Navy biography 
952 I7377  Kauffman, Vice Admiral James Laurence  18 Apr 1887  21 Oct 1963  U.S. Navy, WWII   James Laurence Kauffman attended Pennsylvania Military College, the Army and Navy Preparatory School, and graduated in 1908 from the U.S. Naval Academy.

He held a variety of wide-ranging command billets, ashore and afloat, during World War I. Serving in command of the gunboat RANIER, as an Executive Officer of the destroyer CALDWELL, he became Lieutenant Commander on 1 January 1918. He transferred from the CALDWELL to command the Bath-built USS JENKINS (DD 42). Admiral Kauffman, during his career, spent more time in command, and more time at sea, than any other officer of his time.

At the end of the war, Kauffman returned to the U.S. to commission and command a new ship, the USS BARNEY (DD 149). In November of 1920, he became the Executive Officer of the new Radio Division of the Bureau of Engineering. In May of 1923, he was appointed Naval Aide and Flag Secretary to Admiral S. S. Robinson, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet.

In June of 1925, Kauffman was selected to the rank of Commander. His next tour of duty was as a member of the U.S. Naval Mission to Brazil. Appointed Captain in 1936, Kauffman served as Commanding Officer of the USS MEMPHIS, and later at the shipyard at Mare Island.

In 1941, Rear Admiral Kauffman was sent by President Roosevelt to establish and command a Naval Operating Base in Iceland. In 1942, as the principal Navy anti-submarine expert, he commanded the Gulf Sea Frontier, which included the Gulf of Mexico north to the shore of the Carolinas. Under his dynamic leadership, the U-boat menace in that area was checked. Kauffman later became the senior member of the Allied Anti-Submarine Survey Board, evaluating ASW techniques for Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Moving on to the Pacific in 1943, he assumed command of all the Pacific Fleet's cruisers, destroyers and frigates, 401 ships with 150,000 men.

In October 1944, he reported to General Douglas McArthur as Commander Philippine Sea Frontier. In May of 1946, Vice Admiral Kauffman returned home and was assigned to duty as the Commandant of the Fourth Naval District, where he remained until he retired in 1949.
His second career began the day after termination of his first. As the first President of Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson Medical Center, a position he retained for 10 years, he presided over the greatest period of growth in Jefferson's history.

-U.S. Navy biography 
953 I51443  Keller, Charles Ernest Jr  12 Sep 1916  23 May 1990    During World War II he tried to enlist in every branch of service but was rejected due to a congenital back condition. He could have played out the war in the major leagues, but was determined to help his country as best he could.

The Merchant Marine finally accepted his enlistment. He entered service in December 1943. He was commissioned an ensign on December 30, 1943. He trained at St. Petersburg, Florida Maritime Training Station in on January 21, 1944. He was assigned to Sheepshead Bay, New York, in the spring of 1944, where he trained as a purser-pharmacist's mate.

Beginning in the summer of 1944, Keller served at sea aboard a troop transport ship acrossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Keller was discharged from service on August 17, 1945, in time to play 44 games for the Yankees before the season ended. Despite his time away from the game he batted .301 and clouted 10 homeruns. 
954 I18  Keller, Henry Carl  27 Sep 1926  12 Feb 1993  U.S. Navy, WWII   GM3 
955 I17004  Kennedy, George Harris  18 Feb 1925  28 Feb 2016  U.S. Army, WWII   He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 wanting to be a fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps. He wound up in the infantry, serving under General George S. Patton and distinguished himself with valor. He won two Bronze Stars and four rows of combat and service ribbons.
 
956 I18143  Kerry, John Forbes  11 Dec 1943    U.S. Navy   At the Communists War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, John Kerry's picture hangs in a section dedicated to the anti-war activists who helped the Vietnamese Communists win the Vietnam War. 
957 I2316  Kimball, Noah Brooks  19 May 1756  21 Aug 1806  Continental Army, American Revolution   He was at the Lexington Alarm with his father. 
958 I29506  King, John Creighton  17 Jul 1923  21 Feb 2003  U.S. Air Force   He served in WWII, Korea and, Vietnam. 
959 I54008  King, Leslie Lynch Jr  14 Jul 1913  26 Dec 2006  U.S. Navy, WWII    
960 I29502  King, Paul Browning  26 Feb 1892  11 Apr 1933  U.S. Army Air Corps    
961 I32268  Kingdon, Howard Frederick  16 Apr 1899  10 Jan 1985  U.S. Army, WWI    
962 I12399  Knight, Peter  7 Jun 1789  11 Jul 1865  1912    
963 I17394  Knowlton, William Allen  19 Jun 1920  10 Aug 2008  U.S. Army   Four star general, United States Army, 1943-1980.  
964 I22743  Lahey, Walter James  30 Mar 1924  1 Apr 1945  U.S. Navy, WWII   Killed in Action 
965 I6419  Lamphear, James Jr  1747  6 Mar 1820    A midshipman during the Revolution. He served aboard the Sloop "Schuyler" under Commander John Carr and the Frigate "Trumbull" under Commander Nicholson. 
966 I6353  Lamphear, Samuel  23 Dec 1723  1782  Continental Army, American Revolution   He served under Captain Babcock and Colonel Topham. 
967 I27699  Landon, Floyd W  9 Mar 1895  7 Mar 1950  U.S. Army, WWI   339th Infantry 85th Division. 
968 I27703  Landon, Lawrence  14 Jul 1928  15 Sep 1965  U.S. Army, WWII   Company B 1st Combat Engineer Battalion. 
969 I27704  Landon, Murray W  25 Jun 1933  22 Dec 2010  U.S. Army, Korea    
970 I25098  Lane, Aaron G  23 Dec 1817  14 Sep 1883  U.S. Army Mexican-American War    
971 I22092  Lane, Daniel  8 Jul 1735  28 Mar 1825  Continental Army, American Revolution   He enlisted, 5 Aug 1778, in Col. J. Gale's Regiment for New Jersey, and served 26 days.  
972 I25044  Lane, Daniel T  6 Jun 1825    Civil War, Union Army   He was in the 127th Illinois Volunteers. He was wounded at Dallas, Ga., May, 1864, 
973 I2811  Lane, Edward John  1 May 1831  21 Dec 1899  Civil War, Union Army   Company C 4th Michigan Calvery. 
974 I24979  Lane, Ezekial  17 Aug 1792  26 Apr 1881  U.S. Army, War of 1812    
975 I22093  Lane, Ezekiel  4 Jul 1739  16 Aug 1777  Continental Army, American Revolution   Killed in the Battle of Bennington, 16 Aug 1777.  
976 I22020  Lane, Gad Sr  31 Aug 1744  27 Nov 1833  Continental Army, American Revolution    
977 I22025  Lane, Gad Jr  27 Dec 1782    U.S. Army, War of 1812    
978 I22150  Lane, George E  Abt 1840  1 Sep 1863  Civil War, Union Army   Company H, 28th Infantry, Connecticut Volunteers. 
979 I24981  Lane, Isaiah  31 May 1797  15 Dec 1854    The Lane Genealogies states he was a "soldier stationed at Portsmouth" but, gives no further detail. 
980 I22385  Lane, Jacob  15 Jan 1757  6 May 1797  Continental Army, American Revolution   A soldier in the Revolution under Col. L. Baldwin. 
981 I22050  Lane, John  5 Feb 1654      He was a soldier in King Philip's war, in the same company where his brother Samuel served under Captain Poole.  
982 I22091  Lane, John Sr  17 Oct 1733  11 Mar 1813    21 July 1777, as second lieutenant in S. Dearborn's Company, Thomas Stickney's Regiment, he marched from Chester, and
was in the battle of Bennington, 16 Aug 1777. Upon the death of Lieutenant Ezekiel Lane, he was promoted to first lieutenant. 
983 I23229  Lane, John  14 Feb 1726  21 Mar 1811  Continental Army, American Revolution   He was chosen by the Provincial Congress, 24 Aug 1775, First Major in Colonel J. Moulton's Third Regiment of Militia. 
984 I22319  Lane, John Jr  30 Jan 1758      At 17 years of age he enlisted in Captain H. Hutchins' Company; was in the Battle of Bunker Hill; and March, 1777,
in S. Blodgett's Company, Enoch Poor's Regiment, for three years. From
July to Oct, 1 7S0, in Col. T. Bartlett's Regiment at West Boint,  
985 I25310  Lane, John Godfrey  31 May 1840  21 Aug 1864  Civil War, Confederate Army   4th Georgia Company H "Baldwin Blues". Killed near Charles Town, West Virginia during the Battle of Summit Point. 
986 I22101  Lane, Jonathan  13 Dec 1763  2 Mar 1847    Enlisted in M. Leavitt's Company, Thomas Bartlett's Regiment for West Point, July 1780, discharged October, 1780. 
987 I24841  Lane, Jonathan  16 Feb 1761  6 Sep 1819  Continental Army, American Revolution    
988 I25193  Lane, Joshua Winthrop  22 Dec 1848  9 Aug 1863  Civil War, Union Army   KIA 
989 I25194  Lane, Marcena Westley  3 Nov 1845    Civil War, Union Army   11th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, Company I. Wounded at the second Battle of the Wilderness. 
990 I22037  Lane, Samuel Sr  23 Jan 1651  1690  Continental Army, King Philips War   He was a soldier, under Captain Turner of the same company in which John Lane, in 1675, served under Capt. Poole in King Philip's War. 
991 I22320  Lane, Samuel  1 Apr 1760  1825  Continental Army, American Revolution    
992 I23265  Lane, Simon  3 Jul 1733  30 Nov 1813  Continental Army, American Revolution    
993 I22015  Lane, Zebina Jr  1818  1902  Civil War, Union Army   35th New York Volunteer Infantry. 11 Jun 1861 - 16 Aug 1862 
994 I25670  Langley, John Wesley  21 Oct 1841  10 May 1918  Civil War, Union Navy   Assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. 
995 I25669  Langley, Samuel Pierpont  22 Aug 1834  27 Feb 1906    While Langley never served in the military his accomplishments have caused his name to be immortalized within the military.  
996 I15430  Lanphear, Donald Jack  1 Jul 1925  28 Dec 1995  U.S. Navy, WWII    
997 I2081  Lanphear, Harold Rex  23 Jun 1928  22 Jun 2009  U.S. Navy, WWII    
998 I6391  Lanphear, Isaiah  Abt 1740  20 Dec 1809  Continental Army, American Revolution   He served in the 15th Regiment under Captain Yale and Lt Colonel Mead. 
999 I372  Lanphear, Joseph Vernon  17 Sep 1888  28 Aug 1962  U.S. Marine Corps   On 18 Dec 1909 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. 
1000 I27573  Lanphear, Lauren Edison  1 Jan 1840  12 Jan 1911    Enlisted in Union Army 17 Sep 1861, Company C, Michigan 3rd Cavalry Regiment on 03 Oct 1861. Mustered out on 12 Feb 1866 at San Antonio, Texas
 


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