Monthly Member Meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of Each Month
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Monthly Member Meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of Each Month ***
The Veterans of Foreign Wars in the United States was founded in 1899 to assist the neglected veterans of the Spanish-American War. Membership grew to 5,000 by 1915, 200,000 by 1936, and to over 1.5 million by today. The Developing VFW was instrumental in the establishment of the Veterans Administration and the national cemetery system. Now there are some 9,000 posts in the nation and more than 200 in Virginia.
Martin Leppert Sipes VFW POST 9274 was chartered in Falls Church on March 29 1947to honor former Falls Church residents killed in action during World War II
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R. Jacques “Jack” Martin, US Navy EM3C, USS Henry R. Mallory, KIA when his ship was torpedoed by German U-Boat U-402 in the North Atlantic 600nm SSW of Iceland on February 8, 1944. He lived with his family (including his older brother Paul) at 706 Lincoln Ave in W. Falls Church. He worked at C&P Telephone Company in Washington D.C.
Paul F. Martin, US Army, SGT, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, KIA in Bretagne, France on August 27, 1944. He had taken part in the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach and the subsequent fighting at Saint-Lo and Brest. He lived with his family (including his younger brother Jack) at 706 Lincoln Ave in W. Falls Church. He was a taxi driver before he enlisted in 1941.
Norman E. Leppert, US Marine Corps, PFC, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marines, KIA on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, February 18, 1944. He lived at 706 W. Broad St in W. Falls Church. He was a student at the University of Maryland at College Park.
James S. Sipes, US Navy, ENS, Bombing Squadron 17 aboard USS Hornet, KIA when his SB2C Helldiver failed to return to the USS Hornet operating IVO Iwo Jima on February 5, 1945. He grew up in Falls Church and moved to 1232 24th St. South in Arlington. He worked for the US Census Bureau.