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The Holcomb Center is committed to continuing the legacy of selfless service and unending commitment to the mission exemplified through the actions of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, SGT John N. Holcomb.
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He was apart of one of the many army spruce squadrons in the northwest. He enlisted into the army 5 Jun 1917. Ralph was a logger when he enlisted, the OSU yearbooks started in 1915, he was probably at OAC around 1911. WWI took a lot of men out of the logging and lumber sites. One main place this was felt was in the spruce industry. Spruce trees were used for our aircraft in WWI and a lot of workers were taken for the war. The army created spruce squadrons to step in, in 1918 there were roughly 28,000 soldiers working alongside 100,000 civilians in the north west to harvest and process these trees. These men built camps and railroads among many other things. Ralph Green died from injuries received in one of the Spruce camps.
http://swansongrp.com/spruce.html
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