Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class George Wahlen US Navy On February 26, 1945, he was wounded at Iwo Jima. He remained on the battlefield, advancing forward of the frontlines to help a wounded Marine and carry him back to safety. When an adjacent platoon suffered...
Colonel Walter T. Stewart USAF (retired) During World War II, he piloted a B-24 bomber named the “Utah Man.” He led a crew of ten men on the surprise bombing of Hitler’s oil fields in Romania. One hundred sixty planes participated in that raid,...
Colonel Richard A. Searfoss USAF (retired) He commanded a seven-person crew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. The space shuttle was launched on 17 Apr 1998 and after 256 orbits, landed at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 03 May 1998. He is the first Mormon to ever...
John R. (Roger) Lasater Air Force general (retired) Not since Joseph Smith was lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion has there been a General Authority of the Church who was actually a general. Elder John R. Lasater, sustained in April conference 1987 to the First...
General Robert Oaks USAF (retired) The first LDS four-star general, he retired from the US Air Force in 1994, after serving on the Pentagon staff, as commander of the 86th Tactical Fighter Wing and later US Air Forces Europe at Ramstein AFB in Germany, and allied NATO...
