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May 19, 2014
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San Diego Co San Diego Co

Ft Rosecrans

May 19, 2014
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Bench Man (Fixing flowers.)

Bench Man (This section is blank for the moment. Other sections nearby have engraved names or place-holder tags.)

Bucher Lloyd (Lloyd Bucher was the Captain of the USS Pueblo spy ship which was captured on January 23, 1968 by North Korea. While POWs, he and the crew gave "the finger" (they described it as the Hawaiian good luck sign) in propaganda photos - not understood by the Koreans until Time magazine explained it in an article. Beatings and torture increased as a result. After 11 months, he and the crew were traded back to the US. Though Bucher faced a Court of Inquiry, a court martial was not convened, and he served normal duties until his retirement. The Pueblo is still a tourist attraction in North Korea.)

Croft Douglas (Douglas Croft was a child actor best remembered as the first actor to play the character of Robin the Boy Wonder/Dick Grayson in the 1943 serial Batman, at sixteen years of age. He played the younger versions of James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Ronald Reagan in Kings Row (1942).)

Doll Don (Don Burnside (later Doll) played football for the USC Trojans 1944 to 1948, though he did not play in 1945 while serving in the Marines. He led USC in rushing three times and led the team in receptions and scoring in 1948. He was an All-Pro player in his first 3 NFL seasons, played 4 times in the Pro Bowl and was the MVP in 1952. He played safety on the 1952 Detroit Lions team that won the NFL championship. During his rookie season, Doll had 11 interceptions which he returned for 301 yards, including a 95-yard return for a TD. This yardage still ranks 5th all-time, and Doll still holds the record for most interception-return yards by a rookie. He was the first player to have at least 10 interceptions in 3 different years. In 2008, Doll was selected as a member of the Lions' 75th Season All-Time Team.)

Ford David (David Conant Ford was a stage and TV actor. An early stage role was that of Claggart in 'Billy Budd' in 1955. He appeared with Gertrude Berg in ''A Majority of One'' and with Edward G. Robinson in ''Middle of the Night.'' He also played the Duke of Norfolk in ''A Man For All Seasons'' and John Hancock in the musical ''1776.'' For two years he appeared on TV's ''Dark Shadows,''as Sam Evans. He also narrated for TV and radio.)

Gambier Bay Mem (USS Gambier Bay was sunk in the battle of Leyte Gulf in WWII.)

Gnarled Tree (Gnarled tree.)

Headstones Cliff (Looking SW across the road from Wally Schirra.)

Headstones Flowers (Many markers have the wife's information on the back.)

Headstones Trees (Looking north on the east side. The top of the hill is the main entrance.)

Higgins Thomas (Thomas Higgins was a cartoonist who submitted almost 500 cartoons for Ripley's Believe it or Not.)

Hochmuth Bruno (Maj Gen Bruno Hochmuth is the highest-ranking casualty of the Vietnam war, and he was the first and only Marine Corps division commander to be killed in any war. During an inspection tour, Hochmuth and five others were killed when their helicopter exploded and crashed soon after take off.)

Jones Donald (Donald Jones was a Vice Admiral in the Navy, though he started as a Naval Aviation Cadet and began a career with helicopters and fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare. While as Commanding Officer of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron Four, he was loaned to NASA to develop astronaut recovery procedures for the Apollo program. As a result, HS-4 was the helicopter recovery squadron for five Apollo missions – 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13. Jones was the recovery pilot for the first moon orbital flight of Apollo 8 and the first moon landing flight of Apollo 11.)

Lake Stuart (Stuart Lake was a western writer, and his 1931 biography of Wyatt Earp served as the basis for several films, including Frontier Marshal with Randolph Scott, and John Ford's My Darling Clementine, and inspired the 1955-1961 TV series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian. The biography was later found to be highly fictional. He also wrote for The Westerner, Powder River, and Winchester '73 movies.)

Le May Alan (Alan LeMay wrote two classic Western novels, The Searchers, and The Unforgiven, which were adapted into movies of the same name. He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Reap the Wild Wind, Blackbeard the Pirate, North West Mounted Police, and the novel for Along Came Jones. LeMay also wrote and directed High Lonesome.)

Leyte Gulf Mem (Leyte Gulf memorial.)

Leyte Gulf Mem (Leyte Gulf memorial.)

Leyte Gulf Mem (Leyte Gulf memorial.)

Leyte Gulf Mem (Leyte Gulf memorial.)

Monsoor Michael (Michael Monsoor, Medal of Honor recipient, was a Navy SEAL. He covered an enemy grenade, and save the lives of other soldiers.)

Mormon Battalion Mem (The Mormon Battlion marched over 2,000 miles and ended up near here.)

Pendleton Joseph (Nearby Camp Pendleton was named after Maj Gen Joseph Pendleton.)

Rowlands David (David Rowlands acted in Faces, Husbands, On The Buses, Mutiny On The Buses, Assassin, Vampira, The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, Opening Night, The Big Fix, Henry V, Beverly Hills Madams, and The Cleopatras. Brother of Actress Gena Rowlands.)

San Pasqual Mem (The battle of San Pasqual was nearby during the Mexican-American war before California statehood..)

Schirra Walter (Wally Schirra was a test pilot, Navy officer, and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. He is the only person to fly in all of the first three space programs Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. (Cenotaph).)

Stallings Laurence (Laurence Stallings was a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer. Best known for his collaboration with Maxwell Anderson on the 1924 play What Price Glory, Stallings also wrote the autobiographical novel, Plumes, about his service in WW I, and published an award-winning book of photographs, The First World War: A Photographic History.)

Third Inf Mem (Third Infantry Division.)

USS Bennington (The USS Bennington suffered a boiler explosion in 1905.)

USS Bennington Mem (USS Bennington had a boiler explosion in 1905.)

USS Bennington Mem (USS Bennington.)

Winters Gloria (Gloria Carolyn Hirst acted as Gloria Winters as the daughter in The Life of Riley, then the niece in Sky King. She married sound engineer Dean Vernon and retired in 1961.)

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