T SGT
US Marine Corps
World War II
Korea
A determined soldier!
"At age 15, Clements Cowan Jr., Manual High School sophomore, faked his age to fight World War II, grabbing a piece of the action in the some of the most harrowing hot spots the world has ever suffered: Tawara. Saipan. Okinawa. Nagasaki...
...Born March 14, 1928, in Sturgis, Ky., to Clements W. and Margaret Pride Cowan Sr., the younger Cowan later moved with his family to Peoria...After the war, Gunnery Sgt. Cowan returned to Peoria and Caterpillar Tractor Co., where he had faked his age to get a job before the war. He later earned his high-school diploma and took engineering and drafting classes at Bradley University....Cowan married, had eight offspring, then divorced; he later remarried but divorced again in 1983. "
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20151027/NEWS/151029402
US Marine Corps
World War II
Korea
A determined soldier!
"At age 15, Clements Cowan Jr., Manual High School sophomore, faked his age to fight World War II, grabbing a piece of the action in the some of the most harrowing hot spots the world has ever suffered: Tawara. Saipan. Okinawa. Nagasaki...
...Born March 14, 1928, in Sturgis, Ky., to Clements W. and Margaret Pride Cowan Sr., the younger Cowan later moved with his family to Peoria...After the war, Gunnery Sgt. Cowan returned to Peoria and Caterpillar Tractor Co., where he had faked his age to get a job before the war. He later earned his high-school diploma and took engineering and drafting classes at Bradley University....Cowan married, had eight offspring, then divorced; he later remarried but divorced again in 1983. "
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20151027/NEWS/151029402
T SGT
US Marine Corps
World War II
Korea
A determined soldier!
"At age 15, Clements Cowan Jr., Manual High School sophomore, faked his age to fight World War II, grabbing a piece of the action in the some of the most harrowing hot spots the world has ever suffered: Tawara. Saipan. Okinawa. Nagasaki...
...Born March 14, 1928, in Sturgis, Ky., to Clements W. and Margaret Pride Cowan Sr., the younger Cowan later moved with his family to Peoria...After the war, Gunnery Sgt. Cowan returned to Peoria and Caterpillar Tractor Co., where he had faked his age to get a job before the war. He later earned his high-school diploma and took engineering and drafting classes at Bradley University....Cowan married, had eight offspring, then divorced; he later remarried but divorced again in 1983. "
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20151027/NEWS/151029402
US Marine Corps
World War II
Korea
A determined soldier!
"At age 15, Clements Cowan Jr., Manual High School sophomore, faked his age to fight World War II, grabbing a piece of the action in the some of the most harrowing hot spots the world has ever suffered: Tawara. Saipan. Okinawa. Nagasaki...
...Born March 14, 1928, in Sturgis, Ky., to Clements W. and Margaret Pride Cowan Sr., the younger Cowan later moved with his family to Peoria...After the war, Gunnery Sgt. Cowan returned to Peoria and Caterpillar Tractor Co., where he had faked his age to get a job before the war. He later earned his high-school diploma and took engineering and drafting classes at Bradley University....Cowan married, had eight offspring, then divorced; he later remarried but divorced again in 1983. "
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20151027/NEWS/151029402
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