Who
Served in the Cold War?
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This
page contains the names
of 110 men and women who called Allegany County home and served
in the Cold War, that period of time between the end of the
Korean Conflict and the beginning of the Vietnam Conflict (roughly
1954-1965)
Check the Medal of Honor page to see details about Allegany County's Medal of Honor recipients |
| Name | Service | Death Date | Burial Place |
| ACKER, William L. | US Air Force 1971-1975 | 5-2-2015 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| ALLEN, James L. [Chow] | US Navy | 9-29-2012 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| BALCOM, James E. | US Army | 8-16-2003 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| BENTLEY, Joseph C. | US Army, 1956-1958 | 12-21-2012 | Alger, Hume NY |
| BESSETTE, Howard R | US Army, SP3 | 5-13-1984 | Whitesville Rural |
| BOLERO, Richard A. | US Air Force, 1959-1961. Crew Chief for an F102 fighter jet. | 9-16-2014 | Hillside, Andover |
| BOYD, Larry B. | US Navy, career. Served aboard the battleship USS Missouri during the Korean Conflict. Continued his career serving on destroyers during the Cuban Missile Crisis | 10-24-2009 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| BROWN, David S. | US Army.1954-1957 | 8-17-2004 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| BROWNELL, Clarence G. | US Army. Border patrol in Germany | 9-29-2012 | Yorks Corners, Willing NY |
| BROWNELL, James R. | USMC 1953-1956 | 11-4-2015 | Stannards |
| BUCHHOLZ, Earl V. | US Army, 101st Airborne Div. Japan | 7-26-2009 | Stannards |
| BUNDY, C. Clinton | US Army Air Force 1945-1948 | 10-5-2015 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| BURDICK, Ernest G. [Mike] III | US Army 1962-1964, US Navy for 18 years | 7-11-2009 | Hillside, Andover |
| BURDICK, Maxon J. [Moose] | US Army. 1961-1963 | 12-20-2001 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| BURDICK, Robert F. | US Navy 1964-1966 | 10-2-2013 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| BURGER, Gregory J. | US Army, Cuban Missle Crises | 4-21-2000 | West Genesee |
| CARBERRY, David S. | US Army | 3-18-2013 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| CARPENTER, Gregory A. [Carp] | US Navy, ADJ3 | 5-1-1998 | Canaseraga |
| CARTWRIGHT, Robert J. | US Army 1971-1972 | 9-28-2007 | Wells, Genesee |
| CASSIDY, Grant Sr. | US Navy 1948-1968 | 12-17-2008 | Cuba |
| CASTELLANO, John Anthony | US Air Force | 11-19-2006 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| CAVAZOS, Francisco G. [Frank] | US Air Force. Career: 1951-1971 | 10-21-2015 | Riverside, Belfast |
| CHAMBERLAIN, Allan D. | US Army 1961-1963. Stood color guard for President Kennedy four months prior to the President's Assassination | 1-15-2010 | Riverside, Belfast |
| CLARK, Cecil R. [Dick] | US Air Force 1953-1957 | 3-22-2015 | Whitesville Rural |
| CLINE, Michael J. | US Marine Corps | 4-22-2004 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| CONGDON, Lawrence David | US Air Force, Flight Engineer in Europe & Africa. 1950-1954 | 12-27-2010 | Our Lady of Angels |
| CORNELIUS, Vernon [Eugene] | US Army. 1961-1963 | 7-4-2009 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| COY, Walter C. | US Air Force | 10-28-2007 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| CRAFT, Robert Ward | US Navy | 2-20-2011 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| CWIKLINSKI, Joseph J. | US Navy. Retired as an honored Career Diesel Submariner after a 23-year career. (also Vietnam) | 12-24-2011 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| DAYTON, 1- | US Air Force | 10-22-2010 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| DEMING, William L. Sr. | US Air Force 1955-1961 | 8-22-2012 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| DENNING, Adelbert | US Army, HHC1 SFG (ABN) 1 SF | 6-19-1969 | Knights Creek |
| DEPEW, Neil Morgan | US Army 1951-1953 in the 43rd Division in Germany | 4-16-2015 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| DICKENS, Charles R. | US Army. 1966-1968 | 10-13-2012 | Forest Hills Amity |
| DIXON, Charles David | US Army and Army Reserves.1963-1969 | 8-2-2001 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| DONOVAN, Robert E. [Taters] | US Army 1962-1964 | 9-6-2014 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| e | US Army, SP5. 1969-1972 | 9-16-2013 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| FISHER, Bruce Duane | US Navy. 1960-1981 | 1-23-2014 | Stannards |
| FOSTER, Glenn H. Sr. | US Army. Aschaffenburg Germany 1952-1954 | 1-11-2008 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| FULLAM, Robert A. | US Army | 8-5-2003 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| GATES, Eric Steven | US Army. Germany & Korea | 2-7-2009 | Knights Creek |
| GAUS, Bernard Norman | US Army. 1956-1959 | 6-4-2011 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| GLOVER, Ronald F | US Air Force, 815th Food Svc SQ, A1C | 1956 | Canaseraga |
| GOLISH, Steve M. | US Navy. 1961-1965 | 8-3-2007 | Whitesville Rural |
| GREENE, Grant E. | US Navy 1952-1968 | 11-28-1992 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| GREENWAY, William N.A. [Bill] | US Army 1958-1961 as an Air Traffic Controller | 3-22-2009 | Mt. Pleasant, Caneadea |
| HALE, Harry W. [Bud] Jr. | US Marine Corps, L/Cpl | 4-11-2008 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| HALE, Richard M. | US Army in Alaska | 11-3-2014 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| HARBECK, Donald | US Air Force, Sgt. 1952-1955 | 3-13-2016 | Black Creek |
| HARDY, William Clair | US Army, Co. B 10 Engr. Bn, Sp4 | 9-28-1970 | Maple Lawn, Boliver |
| HARRIGER, Earl P. [Garbo] | USMC | 1-8-2016 | Maple Lawn, Boliver |
| HELMER, Gilbert W. | US Army, 520th QM Corps. Ft. Bragg NC & Germany | 10-8-1999 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| HOLBROOK, James E. [Jim] | US Army, 82nd Airborne Div 1950-1952 | 5-21-2015 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| HOWELL, Victor C. [Vic] | US Army. Germany | 11-9-2015 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| HUNT, Ramond L. | US Army. 1953 -1957. National Defense Service Medal | 8-27-2008 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| INGRAHAM, Donald Wayne | US Navy, 1968-1972 | 2-10-2016 | West Clarksville |
| JACKSON, Jerrold W. [Jerry] | US Navy. Cuban Missle Crisis and Vietnam. Career | 2-25-2009 | Yorks Corners, Willing NY |
| JAMES, Shirley * | US Army 1965-1984 | 7-27-2015 | Short Tract |
| JONES, David L. | US Army, 7th Army 1956-1958 in Germany. Named the Seventh Army's "Soldier of the Month" in November 1957 | 9-5-2011 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| KELLEHER, Gary F. | US Navy. 1962-1966 | 5-17-2010 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| KELLOGG, James Richard | US Army, SP5 | 5-17-1981 | Whitesville Rural |
| KENNEDY, Donald G. | US Army | 7-17-2003 | Wells, Genesee |
| KESSLER, Gary W. | US Air Force 1966-1970 | 4-5-2009 | Short Tract |
| KINNICUTT, Frederick J. | US Navy, YNSN | 8-17-1955 | Maple Lawn, Boliver |
| KINTNER, Ronald N. [Nellie] | US Air Force | 10-8-2005 | Fairlawn Scio |
| KLANG, William [Artie] | US Navy | 5-30-1994 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| KOLISCH, Gerald Andre [Jerry] | US Army then US Air Force aerospace program | 6-30-2005 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| KRUGER, Carl R. | US Army | 12-12-2008 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| LaLONDE, Robert Leonard [Bob] | US Air Force, 1965-1969 | 10-29-2010 | Forest Hills Amity |
| LAMBERTON, Clinton C. | US Air Force | 8-12-1981 | West Genesee |
| LAYFIELD, Wilson F. [Bill] | US Army, Pfc | 11-13-2005 | Maple Lawn, Boliver |
| LITTLE, Douglas B. | US Army, drill sergeant. 1966-1968 | 2-22-2001 | Cuba |
| LUDWIG, Fred J. | US Air Force | 11-17-2011 | Canaseraga |
| MARSH, James Robert [Bob] | US Army. 1954-1956 | 5-15-2010 | Forest Hills Amity |
| MARSH, Lawrence Kellogg | US Army. 1954-1956 | 6-17-2013 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| MCALLISTER, Robert L. Jr. | USMC. 1969-1971 | 6-25-2011 | Whitesville Rural |
| McCRACKEN, Kenneth Edward, Jr. [Skip] | US Army, 1962-1968 | 11-30-2014 | Fairlawn Scio |
| MCCUMISKEY, Patrick John | US Navy 1958-1962. Atlantic Fleet on board USS Waccemaw crossing the Atlantic 14 times - also served during the Bay of Pigs Invasion | 3-30-2010 | Holy Cross, Belfast |
| MITCHELL, Ernest F. [Ernie] | US Army, Engrs 587th Field Maintenance in Germany | 5-4-2006 | Sacred Heart, Wellsville NY |
| MOORE, Gary J. | US Air Force | 4-13-2012 | Our Lady of Angels |
| MOUNTAIN, David John Sr. | Cold War Vet USMC. 1956-1959 | 8-12-2010 | Holy Cross, Belfast |
| NORTON, Richard C. [Dick] | US Air force. 1962-1966 Griffith's AFB | 12-30-2007 | St. Joseph, Scio |
| NYE, Robert Gilson III | US Air Force | 10-9-2002 | Stannards |
| OLIVER, Lauren R. | US Army, Pfc | 12-6-2001 | Canaseraga |
| ORVIS, Raymond L. | US Air Force, S/Sgt. 1964-1968 | 12-31-2011 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| PERKINS, Gailerd M. Jr. | Cold War Vet | July 29, 1994 | Clarksville |
| PETERSON, Eugene L. | US Army Aviation Branch. Career: 1955-1979. Awarded many medals including the Bronze Star | 8-12-2011 | Alger, Hume NY |
| PITTS, Charles P. | US Army Radio Communications Operator stationed in Germany | 4-24-2012 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| POTTER, Lloyd V. | US Army, 1961-1964 | 4-20-2014 | Forest Hills Amity |
| PRINCE, Kevin J. Sr. | US Air Force. 1973-1978 | 9-12-2005 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| ROBBINS, Ronnie D. | US Army 1961-1963 | 4-2-2014 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| ROESKE, William Albert [Bill] | US Army 1956-1961 using first generation computer science technology for research | 3-15-2015 | Riverside, Belfast |
| ROHRABACHER, Barry Lee | US Navy. 1964-1968 | 3-25-2004 | Stannards |
| SCHNEIDER, James F. | US Army. Member of the All Army Baseball Team | 1-3-2011 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| SCOTT, William John | US Air Force, S/Sgt | 12-8-1979 | St. Marys, Bolivar |
| SMITH, Duane R | US Air Force, Sgt | 1990 | Whitesville Rural |
| SPENCE, Fay O. | US Navy 1947-1950 | 11-16-1998 | Johnson-Dean, Wellsville |
| SPIKE, Carl Robert | Co C 63rd Tank Bn, Cpl | 1-12-1961 | Canaseraga |
| STARR, Paul | USMC, Okinawa Japan | 11-16-2013 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
| STEBBINS, Daryl C. | US Army | 7-17-2005 | Whitesville Rural |
| STEESE, Paul Robert | USNR, 75th Attack Squadron, Ens | 1956 | Mt. Pleasant, Caneadea |
| SWIFT, Donald H. | U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant E5. 1969-1971 Meritoriously awarded Navy Achievement Medal | 8-1-2007 | Cuba |
| TAYLOR, Edward L. | US Army, Sgt | 2-13-1988 | Maple Lawn, Boliver |
| TELLER, John R. | US Army, 21 yr career. Awarded many medals | 10-13-2012 | Maple Grove, Friendship |
| WAGONER, Robert K. [Red] | US Army. 1952-1954 in Germany | 12-19-2009 | Maple Lawn, Boliver |
| WARDNER, Martin C. | US Air Force. 1964-1968 | 10-28-2008 | Wells, Genesee |
| WASHBURN, Randy W. | US Marine Corps 1973-1978 | 5-17-2008 | Cuba |
| WIGHTMAN, Dennis Frederick | US Army 1970-1972 | 3-21-2015 | Woodlawn, Wellsville |
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Created November 11, 2016