Leonard Boswell to be inducted into Ft. Leavenworth Hall of Fame

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) - Two distinguished graduates of the Army's Command and General Staff College will be inducted next week into the Fort Leavenworth Hall of Fame.

The honorees are Leonard Boswell, currently a Democratic congressman from Iowa, and the late Col. Charles W. Davis, a hero of World War II.

The ceremony is set for May 11 at the Lewis and Clark Center at Fort Leavenworth. Both men were students and instructors at the Army college.

Boswell is a Vietnam veteran who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service. He retired as a lieutenant colonel and was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996.

Davis led a small team in 1943 at Guadalcanal against a Japanese machine gun position. His display of courage inspired other soldiers to follow and break Japanese resistance.

Davis died in 1991.

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