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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
CplMarvin
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
F.
Bates
DIVISION: Army
SERVED: Oct 14, 1940 -
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HONORED BY: Eisenhower Foundation
Carl F. Bauck
Army
Carl
F.
Bauck
DIVISION: Army,
137th Infantry
Jun 24, 1918 - Jul 28, 2006
BIRTHPLACE: Leoti, KS
HIGHEST RANK: Private First Class
THEATER OF OPERATION: Pacific
SERVED: Feb 27, 1941 -
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Sep 28, 1945
0
HONORED BY: Constance J Barnum

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Carl was stationed in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The island was Adak Island where he was a truck driver After his discharge, he returned to farming near Leoti, KS. He also attended Hutchinson Business School for a couple of years. There he met his future wife, Laura Violet Rome. After the marriage, they returned to Leoti to farm. Three children were born, Constance (Bauck) Barnum, James Bauck and Nancy Bauck.

James C. Bauernfeind
Army
James
C.
Bauernfeind
DIVISION: Army,
80th Division
Jun 17, 1918 - Nov 20, 2000
BIRTHPLACE: New York
THEATER OF OPERATION: European
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HONORED BY: Patricia, James, and Mary Ellen

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Between the beach at Normandy to a small town in Austria, our father and his closest friend Pete Schreiner, fought their way through Europe with the Army's 80th Division. Carrying the BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) and wounded several times, through the fields of France, Belgium, Germany and Austria they marched and fought. The Battle of the Bulge, the freezing winters in Belgium, the concentration camp at Dachau, and finally a drunken drive in a tank through an Austrian town after the war ended, he served his country with honor. His wife and daughter waiting for him at home, worried after receiving several Red Cross messages about his injuries, he along with thousands of others persevered. Never one to discuss his service time, he lived his life in a manner that to this very day we, his children, still remember him with love and devotion.

Loyd L. Baughman
Army Air Corps
Loyd
L.
Baughman
DIVISION: Army Air Corps,
368th Fighter Gr, 396th Fighter Sq.
Jul 12, 1921 -
BIRTHPLACE: Howard, KS
THEATER OF OPERATION: European
SERVED: Jul 21, 1942 -
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Nov 1, 1945
0
HONORED BY: Son, Kenton L. Baughman

BIOGRAPHY

I served in the Armament Section loading the .50 caliber machine guns on the P-47 airplanes.

Edwin T. Bauman
Army Air Corps
Edwin
T.
Bauman
DIVISION: Army Air Corps,
529 Sqd, 311th Grp, 14th Air Force
Jun 14, 1921 - Feb 10, 2004
BIRTHPLACE: Pickrell, NE
THEATER OF OPERATION: China Burma India
SERVED: Jan 1, 1942 -
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Jan 1, 1946
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HONORED BY: Daughter, Marcia Emal

BIOGRAPHY

Towards the end of the war, Edwin flew with a less experienced ambulance airplane pilot on a mission to retrieve bodies in China. They made a forced landing in a rocky riverbed. Chinese nationals surrounded them: only one - a lady whose husband was a professor - spoke English. Edwin spent two long days walking and one day hiding under bamboo in a sampan to reach his base. Edwin said, 'Everyone has an angel and the English-speaking lady was mine.'

Billy F. Baumann
Army Air Corps
Billy
F.
Baumann
DIVISION: Army Air Corps,
1326 Army Air Force Base Unit
Apr 7, 1923 -
BIRTHPLACE: Sweetwater, TN
THEATER OF OPERATION: China Burma India
SERVED: Apr 15, 1943 -
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Feb 2, 1946
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HONORED BY: His three sons

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Was a 'Hump' pilot. Flew with the 1326 Army Air Force base unit in the India Burma China theater of operations for 13 months. Piloted the C-46 twin-engine transport aircraft over the Hump to deliver supplies to Allied ground forces, fighter plan bases and bomber plane bases to help the Chinese defeat the Japanese who had closed China's access to the ocean, had occupied all major cities in China and about one-third of southern China. The Air Force has labeled the flights over the Himalayan mountains as the most treacherous flight path of WW II and the world's worst weather. When C-46 airplanes were loaded and ready for takeoff they would make the takeoff day or night, whatever the weather, to deliver the supplies. missions would be repeated about every three days. Additional duty was as Senior Briefing and Navigation Officer, briefing all crews on proper preparation for flight prior to takeoff. Performed periodic checks to ascertain that crews knew all emergency procedures.

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The mission of Ike's Soldiers is to honor Dwight D. Eisenhower's legacy through the personal accounts of the soldiers he led and share them with the world.

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Guildhall Address, London, June 12, 1945