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Garrett W. Bartley
Army
Garrett
W.
Bartley
DIVISION: Army
SERVED: Jul 22, 1942 -
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HONORED BY: Eisenhower Foundation
Louis R. Bartley
Army
Louis
R.
Bartley
DIVISION: Army,
1st Infantry 6th division
Jun 20, 1915 - Sep 27, 2006
BIRTHPLACE: Powhattan, KS
SERVED: Jun 26, 1941 -
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HONORED BY: Friend Jacqueline Zimmers and his family
Harold A. Bartley
Army
Harold
A.
Bartley
DIVISION: Army
SERVED: Mar 1, 1942 -
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HONORED BY: Eisenhower Foundation
Harold E. Bartley
Army
Harold
E.
Bartley
DIVISION: Army
BIRTHPLACE: Powhattan, KS
THEATER OF OPERATION: European
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HONORED BY: Eisenhower Foundation
Max E. Bartley
Army
Max
E.
Bartley
DIVISION: Army
SERVED: Jul 13, 1944 -
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HONORED BY: Eisenhower Foundation
Elmo L. Barton
Navy
Elmo
L.
Barton
DIVISION: Navy
Aug 9, 1924 - May 18, 2015
BIRTHPLACE: Winfield, Kansas
THEATER OF OPERATION: Pacific
SERVED: Jul 23, 1943 -
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Born to William and Edith Barton, Elmo Leroy Barton served in the U.S. Navy from July 1943 until February 1946 and then returned to the Navy during the Korean conflict. He married Helen Sanberry on July 16, 1949. With the exception of a period 1956 to 1961 during which Barton worked as a secretary for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman and Engineman in Cleveland, Ohio, Barton worked for the Santa Fe Railway as an engineer.

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H. Marvin Bastian
Army Air Corps
H. Marvin
Bastian
DIVISION: Army Air Corps,
592nd AAF
Jul 15, 1920 - May 24, 2008
BIRTHPLACE: Danbury, Nebraska
HIGHEST RANK: Corporal
THEATER OF OPERATION: American
SERVED: Dec 30, 1942 -
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Jan 18, 1946
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HONORED BY: The Bastian Family

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Our dad, Marvin, grew up in Atwood, Kansas. For his senior year in high school, he attended Kemper Military Academy in Missouri. He then enrolled in the University of Kansas (KU), majoring in business administration and completing two years in the Army ROTC program. In the fall of 1942, following his third year at KU, Marvin decided to move to Wichita and join the Cessna Aircraft Company. He received training in blueprint reading and became a chief dispatcher in the production control department. At the time, Cessna was building the CG-4, a military glider, and Marvin aspired to join the Army’s Glider Corps. Perhaps fate was on his side as he was turned down due to his poor eyesight. The gliders, being made of inexpensive wood and metal, proved to be perilous to those who flew them in the European theatre. Three weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Marvin was inducted into the Army Air Forces at age 22. He served for three years and 18 days. Most of his time was spent training pilots in a “Link Trainer,” a flight simulator made famous during World War II as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation. Created out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments, more than 500,000 U.S. pilots were trained on Link simulators, as were pilots from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan and the USSR. Marvin became certified as a Link Trainer Instructor in both instrument flying and celestial navigation. He was assigned to several stations: Chanute Field in Illinois (130 miles south of Chicago); Geiger Field, in Spokane, Washington; and Peterson Field, near Colorado Springs. Following the Japanese surrender in September 1945, Marvin, perhaps out of a desire to do greater good, joined the Army’s Counter-Intelligence Corps and received special training in Camouflage, Demolition, and Mines at Holabird Signal Depot in Baltimore. We remember him sharing how, in the middle of a class session, a man ran in, fired a 45 automatic pistol several times at the instructor and ran out. The instructor, who had collapsed on the floor, rose to his feet and said, “OK – write down the details of what you just witnessed.” Marvin explained, “We learned some Japanese, how to cover our tracks when doing counter-intelligence work, and other ‘cloak and dagger’ secrets.” When his service ended in 1946, Marvin returned to Wichita and went to work in his father’s mortgage finance business. Over the next 60 years, he transformed the family business into Fidelity Bank, which today is in its fourth generation of Bastian family ownership with his grandson, Aaron, at the helm.

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Leroy F. Bates
Army
Leroy
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Bates
DIVISION: Army
SERVED: Oct 14, 1940 -
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Guildhall Address, London, June 12, 1945