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'''[[Staton, Albert H. Jr. (0474449)|Albert H. Staton Jr.]]''' (1 April 1921 – 29 July 2015) was a Ritchie Boy and Chemical Warfare Service officer who later served as an intelligence officer with the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific and received the Bronze Star on Okinawa.
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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Albert Hammond Staton Jr. was born on 1 April 1921 in Atlanta, Georgia. He passed the Georgia Tech admission exam at age 15, earned a B.S. in chemical engineering there in 1941, and married Mary Jane Wilson on 2 April 1943.
 
Staton served in the U.S. Army from June 1942 to March 1946. He first worked in chemical munitions manufacture at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, then received military intelligence training at Camp Ritchie (Classes 22 and 24). He joined the 77th Infantry Division on Leyte and served through the campaigns on Kerama Retto, Ie Shima, and Okinawa. On Okinawa he received the Bronze Star and promotion to captain.
 
After the war he spent his career with the family’s Latin American Coca-Cola bottling enterprises (later Panamerican Beverages / Panamco), traveling among plants in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. He died on 29 July 2015 in Coral Gables, Florida, at age 94.


== Research notes ==
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* 1 April 1921 — Born in Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1941 — B.S. in chemical engineering, Georgia Tech.
* June 1942 — Entered U.S. Army service.
* 2 April 1943 — Married Mary Jane Wilson.
* Camp Ritchie Classes 22 and 24 (military intelligence).
* 1944–1945 — 77th Infantry Division: Leyte, Kerama Retto, Ie Shima, Okinawa; Bronze Star and promotion to captain on Okinawa.
* March 1946 — Left active service.
* Postwar — Coca-Cola / Panamco bottling career in Latin America.
* 29 July 2015 — Died in Coral Gables, Florida.
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== Sources ==
== Sources ==
* Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
* Ancestry private member tree note for Albert Hammond Staton Jr. (tree not publicly viewable; used only for identity confirmation of Atlanta 1921 birth)
* [https://strathmore-ltd.com/vip-members/albert-h-staton-jr/9a0lvvj/ Strathmore Who’s Who — Albert H. Staton Jr.]
* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
 
* Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2022-10-05 (4 posts)
 
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