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They are out there.....they're everywhere !
 

               

Pictures of Leominster People in Service, At Home and
Abroad, Yesterday and Today, Alive and Remembered.

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Walt was trained from  New York to Mississippi & served from
Vermont to  Georgia and from Greenland to Jordan & Southeast Asia.

He served the United Nations for almost 5 years, out of Jerusalem, Jordan,
and participated in the evacuation of dependents prior to the Six Day War.

In the Viet Nam War, he  flew 97 Combat - Reccy missions over all of Southeast Asia &
performed Recruiter Duty for 3 years before retiring in 1972 !

SSgt. Knowles on an Airfield while on a
United Nations Mission in Jerusalem, Jordan.
 United Nations Mission 1963 - 1967

Walt, left, and co-workers joke with Captain Plunkett about his newest Award from a prior assignment.
 

Mission Aircraft  "Scarlet"
On the first day of the Six Day War, just before their last evacuation flight, she was destroyed by two Missiles while parked at Amman, Jordan.
A Real Military Family !

 Son Cory Knowles, MSgt. USAF Retired,
Grandson Kris Knowles, BM-2 USCG
3rd in Command of an 87 foot Patrol Boat
Cape May, NJ
& Walt Knowles, MSgt. USAF Retired
 

 Walt & Sue Knowles

TSgt. Knowles Swears His 4th Re-enlistemnt
Oath to a Marine Bird Colonel Onboard Scarlet,
300 feet BELOW Sea-Level Over the Dead Sea.
LHS 1952      MSgt. Walt Knowles,  USAF  1952 - 1972

                                      

 

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