Airman Cadet/SP(A)3rd Class Houston (Hugh) G. Stubbs of Grainfield, Kansas, enlisted in the Navy on February 4, 1943. His only brother, Gail E. Stubbs, was in the Army Air Force at that time and stationed at Maxwell Field, Alabama. In September of 1944, while training to become a pilot for the Navy, Houston received the news that his brother, Gail, was killed in action while flying aircraft Commander of a B-17 on a mission against the oil refineries and industrial targets in the area of Vienna, Austria. Three weeks later, his father, John J. Stubbs, suffered a heart attack and died. Houston was the only surviving son, therefore his flight training ended and he was assigned to the US Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. He completed his service as an instructor at the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island. On July 5, 1945, Houston married his sweetheart, Louise M. Hough, at Topeka, Kansas. After the war ended, Stubbs returned to the family farm where he farmed, owned and operated Stubbs' Radio and TV Service, and was an Electronics instructor at Northwest Kansas Area Technical School, Goodland, Kansas. Houston and Louise had two sons, John Stubbs and Keith Stubbs and a daughter, Sheryl (Stubbs) Colvin. Stubb's service record includes: 1) Flight Prep School, Liberty, Missouri 2) Washburn Training School, Topeka, Kansas 3) Flight Prep School, Del Monte, California 4) Naval Air Station, Hutchinson, Kansas 5) Naval Air Station, Ottumwa, Iowa 6) Naval Air Training Base, Corpus Christi, Texas 7) US Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois 8) Physical Instructor School, Great Lakes, Illinois 9) Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island. Awards: American Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal