Wayne Terwilliger

After growing up in Michigan, Terwilliger joined the Marines in 1943 following his 18th birthday and served as a radioman on an amphibious tank in the Pacific Theater of World War II. While overseas, Corporal Terwilliger participated in the invasions of Tinian and Iwo Jima, and had his tank knocked out at Saipan. "We were hit and the tank bogged down," he told The Sporting News on April 26, 1950. "We had to abandon the tank. Everybody scattered into the nearest fox holes. But at just about that time a Jap tank rolled up and began blasting away. I knew I had to get out of there, so I ran for the beach, zigzagging in and out with the tank chasing me. I\'m sure I\'d be lying out there somewhere now, if it hadn\'t been for one of our own tanks, which luckily showed up while I was doing all that broken field running. They knocked out the Jap tank."\n', '

Terwilliger was discharged in late 19…