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Show John G. Conway A, Sergeant John G. (Bud) Conway, Con-way, son of John and Vida Fage Conway, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 10, 1922. The family moved to Durango, Colorado, Colo-rado, where John spent his early childhood on his grandfather's ranch In the fall of 1927 the family moved to Pleasant Grove, End it was here that he received his elementary and high school training, garduating in the spring of 1940. He attended Sunday School, Primary and Scouting. He attended college at the Utah State Agricultural College in Logan for one year. During his high school he participated parti-cipated in football, being captain of the team. He also played right guard on the basketball team. He was class president in his senior year, and also a memiber of the high cchool band. He was employed at the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company at Provo, Utah., for the Pleasant Grove Canning Co. and as a carpenter car-penter at the Geneva Steel plant. For three months he received instruction in-struction on aircrat engines at tne Salt Lake Vocational center. This instruction was under the direction of the Ogden Air Service Command. Upon completion of this training he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. November 3, 1942 he was ordered order-ed to the Marine Base at San Diego, California, spending the next two months in Boot Training, which consisted of a very strenu-I strenu-I ous and confining basic training. He was orderd to Memphis, Tennesse for further schooling and training. On arriving there he was chosen as a section leader. He was also selected as an athletic ath-letic instructur to drill the men in accelerated calisthenics. His section sec-tion graduated on June 15. 1943. from the Naval Technical Training Train-ing Center with the highest grades. grad-es. Upon graduation he was advanced ad-vanced from a Private to a Corporal. Cor-poral. He spent two more weeks at that school in a specialized course before being oirdered to Cherry Point, North Carolina. Later he soont five weeV-j in San Dioo, California, attending a Consolidated Consolida-ted Aircraft School. The course consisted of maintenance on a B-21 B-21 Liberator Bomber. Upon completion com-pletion of the course he was tied with another Marine for high score. On December 25, 1943, he was advanced to the rank of Sergeant. He has just completed a course in bombing and is now a full fledged gunner. At the present time he is stationed stat-ioned at Cherrv Ponit. North Carolina, Car-olina, and is flying with a liberator liberat-or bomber squadron as a Flight Engineer. |