Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame

A quick picture of the 2024 Board of Directors, thank you to everyone who joined us tonight as we inducted 16 new members of our Hall of Fame

Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Master Sergeant Jimmy Charles Leonard
United States Marine Corps

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Sergeant Major Randal Scott Jernigan
United States Marine Corps

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Sergeant First Class Randall Lloyd Harvey
United States Army
Killed in Action

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Lieutenant Colonel Harold Newt Chaffin
United States Army Air Forces
Missing in Action/Killed in Action

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Airman First Class Randy Dale "R.D." Kinsey
United States Air Force

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Second Lieutenant Gilbert Len Fowler
United States Army/Army Reserve

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Staff Sergeant Daniel Fritz Hall
United States Marine Corps

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Lieutenant Colonel Leonard George Anderson Jr.
United States Army

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Staff Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman
United States Army

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Lieutenant General George A. Crocker
United States Army

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Sergeant First Class Terry Evans
United States Army/Army National Guard

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Medal of Honor Recipient,
Colonel Daurice Cordell Vest
United States Air Force

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Corporal James Laverne Harbottle
United States Army
Killed in Action

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Major General Patricia Marie Anslow
United States Army/Army National Guard

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Corporal Gregory Thomas Beck
United States Marine Corps

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Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame
Class of 2024!!!

Medal of Honor Recipient,
Private First-Class Daniel Richmond Edwards
(Highest Rank of Major)
United States Army

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The Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame is searching for any family member of this great AMERICAN HERO!!!!!!!

This is Corporal James Laverne Harbottle, he was nominated to be inducted into the Arkansas Military Veterans' Hall of Fame, and it is my pleasure to announce that he was selected for induction.

Corporal James Laverne Harbottle, he was born in Arkansas and moved when he was six to Flagstaff, Arizona. He joined the Army out of Flagstaff during the Vietnam War. He is buried in Arkansas. He never made it home. He was Killed in Action.

The only places that we know that family members have lived are Flagstaff, Arizona and Coarsegold, California.

We would like to notify his family about his selection and our Induction Banquet and Ceremony.

Please, if anyone has any information, please message on messenger or contact us through our website, www.amvhof.org.

Thank you for your help.

Semper Fidelis,
Ken- Secretary, Arkansas Military Veteran's Hall of Fame

Thank you MG Stubbs for participating in our 13th Annual Banquet last night.

Our flyer as published in this month's 501 Life Magazine.

73 days until the 2023 Annual Induction Banquet (November 4, 2023). Come out and honor Arkansas' great Veterans.

Visit our website www.amvhof.org for your ticket purchase for this great event.

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A great Arkansan, what a record

Veteran Spot Light: MAJOR ERNEST J. AMBORT
Major Ambort, deceased, Little Rock, U.S. Army Air Corp, WWII. Awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Bronze Star Medal for exceptionally meritorious combat achievement, the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with four Bronze Service Stars. The “Flying Ace’s” tally record was five airborne victories, three probable, two ground, and sunk an enemy transport in Ormoc Bay.

Lieutenant Ambort scored his first air to air victory on October 31st 1944. It took just 37 days for him to become an ace, his fifth coming on December 7th 1944. In the book fighter aces of the USA by Toliver and Constable, Lieutenant Ambor states that his most memorable victory was the Downing of a Japanese Kamikaze dive bomb attack on a destroyer evacuating wounded soldiers from the Philippines. Lieutenant Ambort and his wingman Lieutenant Hemmett from Boston, Massachusetts calculated that the P-38 was probably worth more than any destroyer, but due to the number of sick and wounded boys, he decided to ram the enemy aircraft. Trusting on luck rather than ability, he held the triggers down and when the black smoke cleared he knew the Japanese plane had been blown up just before their flight paths crossed. The gratifying waves of crutches, bandages and plaster cast signaled that this had truly been his most thrilling aerial victory.

On 17 February, 1945 Lieutenant Ambort earned his first of three Distinguished Flying Cross’. The narrative reads as follows: Lieutenant Ernest J Airport Air corps, United States Army. Extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight over the southern tip of Leyte, Philippine Islands on 5 December 1944. Lieutenant Ambort and a flight of P38 type airplanes, was covering a friendly convoy when eight enemy airplanes were sighted. Lieutenant Ambort made an attack on one, firing a short burst of fire and causing the plane to blow up. He followed this with another attack on the leading plane of two, and after a long burst which scored hits on the canopy and wings, the enemy plane went into a loose spiral to the right, smoking, and struck the water. The outstanding courage and devotion to duty displayed by Lieutenant Ambort during this flight are worthy of the highest commendation.

In October of 2018 Major Ambort was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Association Hall of Fame.

https://www.arkavhs.com/ernest-ambort