FNB Chronicle, Vol. 15, No. 4 Summer 2004First National Bank (page 2)P.O. Box 4699Oneida, TN 37841

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May’s service stretched from WWII through Korea and on to VietnamCharles May – WW II Marine Corps 2nd Lt., 1944-1946 – U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer

in the Signal Corps. (1950-1969)

By CHARLES MAY

In high school I participated in the V-12 Program which was the equivalent to Jr. ROTC. Eight

months before I was to graduate high school, I was commissioned as a Marine Corps 2d

Lieutenant and went into active duty in December, 1944.

From Washington, DC I went to New Zealand. I was in the 5th

wave invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945. After the war

ended, I was stationed in Japan. I was discharged November 11,

1946, and enrolled in San Jose University in California.

After completing college, I enlisted in the Army. In 1950 I was

injured while being taken prisoner of war by the Koreans and

after sixteen months in captivity, was part of a prisoner exchange

and transferred to Walter Reed Hospital where I met my wife

Mae Marcum who was stationed there for three years as a

Communication Liaison.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam - one was nine months and

one was 13 months.

As a Military Intelligence Officer-Signal Corps, I had

assignments in the Far East, Europe, Middle East and various sites in the United States. I was

discharged from the Army in 1969 and went to work as Marketing Director for Ramada Inns.

After retiring from Ramada Inns in 1985, my wife and I bought the Galloway Inn motel and ran

it until 1991.

Figure 1 Charles May in 2004