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Michael S. Daninger
Army Air Corps
Michael
S.
Daninger
DIVISION: Army Air Corps,
436th
Oct 25, 1916 -
BIRTHPLACE: Forest Lake, MN
THEATER OF OPERATION: China Burma India
SERVED: Jan 5, 1942 -
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Sep 18, 1945
0
HONORED BY: Wife, Florence A. Daninger
Donald A. Davidson
Army
Donald
A.
Davidson
DIVISION: Army,
90th Inf., 357 Regiment
Apr 15, 1923 -
BIRTHPLACE: Dewey, OK
HIGHEST RANK: Private First Class
THEATER OF OPERATION: European
SERVED: Mar 19, 1942 -
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Oct 25, 1945
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HONORED BY: Wife, Children, and Sisters

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Donald was a Private First Class assigned to the 90th Infantry, 357 Regiment, 3rd Regiment in Europe. He is listed in the school history book.

Richard H. Davis
Army
Richard
H.
Davis
DIVISION: Army,
HQ 5th Army
May 26, 1919 - Apr 24, 2014
BIRTHPLACE: Montana
THEATER OF OPERATION: American
SERVED: Jul 4, 1942 -
0
Feb 9, 1946
0
HONORED BY: Army of the United States
Preston W. Davis
Army
Preston
W.
Davis
DIVISION: Army
Aug 6, 1926 -
BIRTHPLACE: Woodbine, KS
THEATER OF OPERATION: Pacific
SERVED: Oct 28, 1944 -
0
Aug 9, 1946
0
HONORED BY: Eisenhower Foundation

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Preston Warren Davis went into the service on October 28, 1944. I trained on the 37 caliber and 57 caliber antitank weapons and the 50 caliber machine gun at Fort Hood, Texas. From there I was sent to California and was shipped to the south Pacific. We crossed the equator then back to Manila Bay. From there I joined the 37th Infantry Division, 145th Infantry DCO, and the 30 caliber machine gun squad. We left Manila and went north on patrols into the mountains to find the Japanese. We fought up through Cagayan Valley to the north end of the island, blowing up their ammunition dumps and captured the rest of the Japanese army that were on the island. We chased them that far while still in the 37th Division. Then we moved back to our camp and the division went home. I didn't have enough points to go home with them so I was transferred to the artillery outfit. The outfit was stationed at Cabanato where we were on guard duty for the company. This was also the prison camp at the end of the death march so we dug up the graves of allied prisoners killed during the march. The bodies were then taken back to Manila for burial. I was shipped back to Honolulu and put into the Air Force for 4 months. The infantry and the Air Force didn't get along very well. On the first day of inspection, a 2nd Lieutenant told me to take off my infantry combat badge. I then said 'over my dead body would I take it off'. We never had an inspection again all the time we were in Honolulu. I came home to Camp Beil, California for discharge, then back to Junction City, Kansas. The best birthday present I had was on August 6, 1945 when the bomb was dropped on Japan and the War ended. Preston Davis was awarded The Philippine Republic Unit Citation by the Government of the Philippians for his 'Extraordinary Heroism while Engaged in Battle against Hostile Enemy Force in the war against the Japanese Empire and Liberation of the Philippine Islands in Luzon during the period of 2 March to 25 September 1945'.

William R. Davis
Army
William
R.
Davis
DIVISION: Army,
462 Army Air Force Base Unit
Jun 3, 1942 - Jan 29, 1966
BIRTHPLACE: Scott City, KS
HIGHEST RANK: First Lieutenant
THEATER OF OPERATION: European
SERVED: Jun 10, 1942 -
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Jun 28, 1946
0
HONORED BY: Wife, Maxine Davis

BIOGRAPHY

William Davis entered service on June 10, 1942. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corp; assigned to the Air Corps TDY to England as part of Electronic Training Group No. 13. Assigned to the American Embassy, London, England attached to the Royal Air Force. Duties included sector or area controller, filter officer, CGI controller, etc. He attended several Royal Air Force school, both technical and tactical. Bill was awarded European Theater Service Ribbon with battle star for the air offensive in Europe. Promoted to First Lieutenant and assigned to 3rd Air Force Headquarters in Tampa, Florida, from 1943-1944 as Senior GCI controller for 3rd Air Force. Planned and conducted operational training program for aircraft control and warning squadrons and signal battalions and night fighter and day fighter aircraft organizations. Assigned to the 4th Air Force, Fresno, California, and had the same general duties. He retired June 8, 1946 with the rank of Captain. During the war, the Queen Mary luxury liner was used as a troop transportation ship and Bill was one of many that went to Europe on the Queen Mary. Bill completed an electrical degree from Kansas State University and worked for many years at Wilson and Company Engineers and Architects in Salina, Kansas. He was selected to be the branch manager for Wilson and Company in Bellevue, Nebraska. He retired from there after losing his sight due to diabetes. Bill then volunteered with planning of Schilling Institute which is now known as K-State Salina. He was to become an instructor, but died before the school opened.

Nelson W. Dayhoff
Navy
Nelson
W.
Dayhoff
DIVISION: Navy
Dec 16, 1919 - Oct 14, 1944
BIRTHPLACE: Tabor, IA
HIGHEST RANK: Lieutenant
THEATER OF OPERATION: Pacific
SERVED: Jul 8, 1941 -
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HONORED BY: Pauline Jones

BIOGRAPHY

Nelson W. Dayhoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dayhoff, graduated from Abilene High School, Abilene, Kansas, in 1938. After graduation, he went to Kansas State University in Manhattan for one and a half years. Instead of being drafted, he wanted to become a navy pilot. He enlisted on July 8, 1941. After taking his preflight training at Fairfax Field in Kansas City, he was sent to Corpus Christi, Texas, where he received his navy wings in June 1942. A short time later, he went to Hawaii where he served for several months. Nelson contacted yellow jaundice and spent some time in the hospital in New Zealand. Then came the big surprise. They were sent home for a thirty day leave. After his furlough at home, he spent time at Alameda, California, taking some very intensive advanced training in the Navy's fastest Hellcat fighter plane. Nelson married Doris Edwards in Piedmont, California, before going back overseas. The heaviest combat occurred at sea during the afternoon and evening of October 14, 1944 near Formosa. Seven Hornet Hellcats under Lieutenant Nelson Dayhoff came up against an incoming raid of about 12 Judy dive bombers escorted by 15 to 20 Zekes and Tonys. Dayhoff's radio quit working before the interception. Mr. and Mrs. Kayhoff received a telegram saying Lt. Nelson Dayhoff was missing following action.

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Donald L. Deam
Army
Donald
L.
Deam
DIVISION: Army,
501st Parachute Infantry
Sep 15, 1919 -
BIRTHPLACE: Wichita, KS
THEATER OF OPERATION: European
SERVED: Apr 1, 1940 -
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Jul 28, 1945
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HONORED BY: Donald L. Deam

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You don't forget it,' Don Deam said. 'You never forget that (D-Day).' Back on June 6, 1944, Deam was a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne. Just 19 years old and still in high school when he enlisted, Deam stood 6 feet tall, weighed 124 pounds and measured 24 inches around his waist. By the time he and other soldiers prepared to meet Nazi forces in the daring D-Day invasion, the U.S. Army first sergeant was known as 'General Toothpick.' Don Deam recalled that when veterans first came home, people didn't seem to want to hear the war stories. So he just put them behind him as a piece of history that was little discussed for years. But he has since been recording his memories from the past; calling war buddies to confirm his recollections. Among the passages Deam has written is one in which General Dwight D. Eisenhower visited with soldiers before D-Day. Eisenhower, who grew up in Abilene, Kansas, asked if any of the men were from Kansas. Another man pushed Deam forward. Although he grew up in Florida, Deam was born in Kansas and his parents were living in Manhattan. He remembers Eisenhower shaking his hand. Then he laid his hand on my shoulder and said 'Come back son'. Deam remembers flying toward France, seeing the white cliffs of Dover slip out of sight as his plane left the United Kingdom. Then he remembers the anti-aircraft and machine gun fire; the way the tracer bullets glowed red as they flew past. He remembers the bullets that ripped through his right arm after he hit the ground and fighting for days despite the injury. The night before they left for D-Day, his colonel gave a rousing speech from the hood of a Jeep. This was what they had been waiting for, the men were told. And at that moment, Deam was scared. His legs felt like rubber. 'I didn't want them to see me' he said of the men he commanded. 'I was the first sergeant.' So I walked behind my tent, threw myself on the ground and prayed. I didn't ask God to save me from being hurt or killed; I asked God to give me the courage to manage fear and guide me so I could do what a first sergeant was supposed to do in combat. On D-Day, he understood what it meant to be at war. 'This sounds like a ridiculously stupid statement,' he said, 'I wasn't scared'. By the time the war ended, Deam had earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Near the end of his duty, he took a piece of Adolph Hitler's stationary from the dictator's Eagles Nest residence and wrote home. 'My warring days and parachute jumps are about over, and I'm not in the least bit sorry.', he wrote to his parents and siblings. 'All of my friends are gone.' After the war, Deam went on to get married and have two children. He worked for 35 years as an attorney. Donald Deam's memoirs are part of the World War II archives at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, KS.

Dr. Dale E. Dean
Army
Dr. Dale
E.
Dean
DIVISION: Army,
Co. B 21st Armored Infantry Battalion
Aug 15, 1918 -
BIRTHPLACE: Glen Elder, KS
HIGHEST RANK: Staff Sergeant
THEATER OF OPERATION: European
SERVED: Nov 5, 1942 -
0
Nov 30, 1945
0
HONORED BY: Eisenhower Foundation

BIOGRAPHY

Staff Sergeant (Dr.) Dale Dean's experiences in WWII read like an excerpt from a textbook. After enlisting following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Dean took an incredible journey across Europe, through the Battle of the Bulge, to a newly liberated concentration camp in Austria and nearly into the Pacific before the war finally ended. For more information go to 'hdnews.net' and click on the 'voices' icon to hear my story.

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Guildhall Address, London, June 12, 1945