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10 SAR MAGAZINE George Washington Ring Ceremony T h ese three Kentucky heroes were chosen to honor the escorting of George Washington's Ring during the 2015 Congress in Louisville, along with Cilla and Michael Tomme; from left, Lexington Lafayette Compatriot Glen Newman, a decorated Vietnam veteran; Ed Myles, a waist gunner who few 31 missions over Europe in World War II; and Noble Roberts, a WWII veteran who joined the U.S. Coast Guard as a signalman in the Pacifc. Ed Myles, Army-Air Force, 1942-1945 Ed was drafted in June 1942 spent six to eight weeks training as a gunner at an Air Force base in Denver, Colorado, where he studied machine guns, turrets and the like. After training, he was sent to Kerns, Utah, outside Salt Lake City for more basic training. His unit left him there, unassigned. He was later assigned to a B-24 bomber crew in Wendover, Utah. His command gave them a brand new B-24 bomber. Ed said his crew acted like kids with a "new red wagon"! They few several 500- 600 mile training fights off the Florida coast, then overseas to North Africa. He few to England and then made bombing runs to France and Germany. After a short stay the crew were sent on a "top-secret assignment" to a base 100 miles outside of London. Ironically, upon their arrival "Axis Sally" of Germany welcomed them to their new station. His frst mission was to Oldenburg, Germany in April 1944. Ed and his crew few 31 missions, avoiding major injuries when the pilot was shot in foot and shrapnel blew through the plane, taking maps and other paperwork through its top. The maintenance crew said his plane had more than 400 shrapnel holes. In 1945 Ed was assigned to a holding point in Miami, where he enjoyed fshing off the beach. He was rewarded with a few extra weeks until his next assignment to Biloxi, Mississippi; he then went back to Colorado to train on B-29s. This led him to Omaha, Nebraska, where his shipping orders were given to a B-29 fying group. He stayed there in Omaha while members were released from service due to point accumulation. Ed had 110 points at the time of his Omaha assignment. He was honorably discharge in late 1946. Ed stated that if he had to do it again he would do it the same way. That's the word from a true American hero! Noble Roberts, U.S. Coast Guard, 1943-1945 I volunteered to join the U. S. Coast Guard in August 1943 and did boot camp at Curtis Bay, Maryland. Afterward, I went to signal school in Manhattan, New York, and studied three languages: Morse Code, semaphore, and international fags. I was assigned to a Coast Guard crew of 112 men and boarded the newly constructed LST 793 in Pittsburgh. We came down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi River and on to New Orleans, where the ship was commissioned. From there we went through the Panama Canal; there we picked up our mascot, the dog we named Seaweed. We stopped over in Pearl Harbor, and from there we went to the Pacifc Zone and made landings on islands where Japanese fought American troops and were defeated. On March 26, 1945, we and three other LSTs made the frst assault landing on the Okinawan Island, Kerama Retto (Zamani Shima). We saw many kamikaze planes shot down. One barely missed our ship and exploded, lifting the bow of our LST July 1, 2015