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"CARLSON, VERNON L. (Ole): Vernon Lyman Carlson was born at Havre, MT on 8 January 1922 and passed over on 14 October 2003. The family moved to Vista,CA in 1931. He graduated Vista, CA High School in June 1940, enlisting that month in the US Marine Corps. He was in the Detachment of Marines, USS West Virginia when she was sunk at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec.'41. Subsequent assignments included the defense of Midway; training mortarmen at then Camp Elliot, CA; 1st Prov. Marine Brigade, Guadalcanal, preparing to invade Guam; the Guam Operation; Okinawan Operation with the Sixth Marine Division, then to China with the same Division disarming Japanese military. "Ole" was honorably separated from the USMC on 17 Jun.'46. He attended San Diego State College for one year then transferred to the Univ. of Montana at Bozeman, MT. He married Belma (Peggy) Brown, a former USMC Aux. in '48, graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering in June '50. His career in that field took him to many places. Knoxville, TN; the Arabian nation of Aden; Kuwait; France; Mexico; Libya; El Cajon, CA; Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam; and Moffat, CA to name a few. He retired to Alabama, the home State of Peggy who passed over three months before he succumbed to a series of strokes. They had no children. His survivors are brothers Carsten D. Carlson of San Marcos, CA and Charles R.(Ole II) Carlson of Sultan, WA, sister Sarah E. Jones of Ridgecrest, CA and several nieces and nephews. His ashes were placed in a niche at the Cemetery, Fort Rosecrans, CA where his father, PFC Charles A. Carlson, (France, WWI, US Army Signal Corps Air Service) has rested since October '60. A memorial service and military honors were provided by the USMCRD, San Diego at Fort Rosecrans Cemetery on 9 January 2004.
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This unit, like the 51st, was organized at Montford Point Camp, New River, North Carolina, and manned by African Americans commanded by white officers. Planned as a composite unit, the 52d took shape as a conventional defense battalion. It absorbed the pack howitzer crews made surplus when the 51st lost its composite status and retrained them in the employment of other weapons. Colonel Augustus W. Cockrell organized the unit, which he turned over to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph W. Earnshaw in July 1944. Under Earnshaw, the 52d the unit deployed to the Marshalls, arriving in October to man the antiaircraft defenses of Majuro Atoll and Roi-Namur in Kwajalein Atoll. Lieutenant Colonel David W. Silvey assumed command in January 1945, and between March and May the entire battalion deployed to Guam, remaining there for the rest of the war. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Moore, Jr., replaced Silvey in May 1945, and in November, the 52d relieved the 51st at Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls before returning to Montford Point; where in May 1946 it became the 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (Composite).
