SULLIVAN JOHN F #2

COL John F. Sullivan was a potential VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 05/01/1998 at the age of 75.8
Denver, CO
Date of Birth 07/17/1922
Served in the U.S. Army
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More detail on this person: John F. Sullivan John F. Sullivan enlisted in National Guard on October 14, 1940. He served in Company B, 107TH Quartermaster Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 126TH Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. He marched with the 107TH Quartermaster Battalion and the 126TH Inf. Regt. across the Kapa Kapa Trail in on New Guinea. The trek along a trail that was barely more than a goat path across New Guinea took more than a month, which John long remembered for not having taken his socks off for an entire month. Almost as soon as the 126th IR arrived in the Buna Gona area, they were put on the front lines in the fight to capture Buna Gona from the Japanese. John was 6'3" tall and was 20 years old in 1942. He served with the unit until August 1944. In 1944 he was hospitalized for one month in Port Moresby, New Guinea. He was then transferred to Townsville, Australia for additional treatment before being transferred stateside. He later became a Lieutenant in Army Air Corps, 5TH Air Force and served in Korea. He was attached to US Army Headquarters Europe in Heidelberg, Germany from about October 1953 to 1958. In June, 1970 he was serving in Vietnam when he was evacuated from the 24TH Evacuation Hospital Long Binh, Vietnam northeast of Saigon to a hospital at Camp Zama, Japan. On July 13, 1970, he was transferred to Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver, Colorado. He spent more than a year at Fitzsimmons. After a long military career that took him all over the world, John retired to Denver, Colorado. He died on May 1, 1998.

Burial information: Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, CO

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