Is there a group
picture of the charter members?
The first post
location was located in a leased facility located at 3858
Wilmington Pike. It was formerly occupied by VFW Post 9927
who moved north on Wilmington Pike.
The 1st Post Location officially opened on ??/??/19??. The Post then
move south on Wilmington Pike.
Until August 2012 it housed the Highfield
Door, who was since moved to Stroop Road near Marshall.
Looking for more
photos of when it was the Post.
What was this
location before it was a post?
Second Post Home
The second post location was purchased on May 6,
1982 and was further south at 4700 Wilmington Pike. It
was a 7-Eleven store prior to the purchase by the Post. This
location was used from Month/Day/Year
to July 24, 1992. It was sold to Roth Realty for
$149,000.
This location currently (August
2012) is occupied by Soka Gakkai International – USA
Buddhist center who purchased it for $335,000 on
August 9, 2007.
Looking for
more photos of when it was the Post
How many
members did we have then?
The Post started looking for a new
permanent home and purchased about one (1) acre of land on May
21, 1984 at the northwest corner of what is now
Marshall Road and Wilmington Pike, next to Heartland of
Kettering and across the street from VFW Post 9927, 3316
Wilmington Pike.
The Post sold this land on June 10, 1992 shortly
before moving into our current Post.
Third Post Home
The post then
purchased eight acres of land off Bigger Road on May
15, 1990 and built a new post at 5700 Kentshire
Drive. Ground breaking occurred on ???/??/19??. The
Post opening took place July 20, 1992. The
commander at the time was Carl W. Brooks.
This post according to John Wagner was constructed at a
cost of $1.3 million.
Luke Osterfeld,
Mitch Button, Neil Dunnington & Jim Weaver burn the
mortgage
September xx, 1998
According to Carl Brooks & John Wagner the mortgage
was between $700,000 and $800,000.
First addition
According to Dick
Childers the single car garage was built about 1996 for a
cost of $3,000.
Dick Childers, Joe Wenzler, Ron Wenzler, Paul Dabrowski
and Butch Zimmerman did the construction of the garage.
Anybody have
pictures of construction?
The M101 Howitzer
In the 2003 Mike
Vickroy and Max Shook started a project to obtain the M101
howitzer now in front of the Post. In the fall of 2004 the
howitzer was delivered by Coshocton Trucking to the
National Guard Armory on County Line Road. A unit from
Columbus came to the Armory and demilitarized the unit by
xxxx & xxxx. It then was delivered to
the Post and Chuck Smithhart refurnished it by sanding the
rust off it and painting it with some special paint.
This particular howitzer served in
Korea.
The 105 mm M2A1 (M101A1) howitzer
was the standard light field howitzer for the United
States in World War II, seeing action in both the European
and Pacific theaters. Entering production in 1941, it
quickly entered the war against the Imperial Japanese Army
in the Pacific, where it gained a reputation for its
accuracy and powerful punch. The M101A1 fired 105 mm high
explosive (HE) semi-fixed ammunition and had a range of
11,200 metres (12,200 yards or almost 7 miles), making it
suitable for supporting infantry. All of these qualities
of the weapon, along with its widespread production, led
to its adoption by many countries after the war. Its
ammunition type also became the standard for many foreign
countries' later models. In 1962, the artillery
designation system was changed and the 105mm M2A1 howitzer
became the M101A1. It continued to see service in the
Korean and Vietnam Wars.
By the end of the Second World War,
8,536 105 mm towed howitzers had been built and post-war
production continued at Rock Island Arsenal until 1953, by
which time 10,202 had been built. In 1985 the US Army had
six M101 and 494 M101A1 howitzers in its inventory. The
M101 105 mm howitzer was replaced in US Army service by
the M102 howitzer which in turn has now been replaced by
the British Royal Ordnance 105 mm Light Gun.
A sign was placed in front of the howitzer in
July 2022
Verizon Cell Phone Tower
In 2010, then
Commander Gavin Long was approached by Verizon about
erecting a cell phone tower on the corner of the Post’s
property.
The project was approved by the Post and the tower was
erected in the summer of 2012 and has become a source of
revenue for the Post.
Second addition
In May 2012
construction was started on a four (4) car garage to house
the Honor Guard Van and other items. Construction costs
were $27,300.
In November 2017 the garage
was modified by adding a back door to be used as a bar
for events
If you have any corrections or additional
information please contact me
