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COLONEL E. P. FLEMING, JR.
Colonel E. P. Fleming, Jr. served in the dual role of Fort Wolters commander and
commandant of the U. S. Army Primary Helicopter Center/ School. He served in that capacity
from October 1965 to September 26, 1967.
A survivor of the Bataan Death March and holder of two Bronze Star Medals for valor, a
senior Army Aviator, he came to Fort Wolters from an assignment as chief, Ground Operations,
J3 Division, CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacific) headquartered at Honolulu, Hawaii.
He was a 1939 graduate of North Carolina State College at Raleigh, N. C.. After
graduation, Colonel Fleming entered the military as a second lieutenant of Infantry. In 1940, he
transferred to the Artillery. When the United States entered World War II, he was serving with
the Philipine Division in the Philipines.
Colonel Fleming was a battery commander at Lingayen Gulf when the main body of the
Japanese invasion force landed on Luzon. He was taken prisioner on Bataan and spent over three
years in Japanese POW camps.
Following the war, the colonel served as operations officer of the South Carolina Military
District. 1947-1949; commander of the 41st Field Artillery Battalion at Fort Benning, Georgia,
1950-1951; aviation officer of European Communications Zone, Oleans, France, from 1952-1955.
Other assignments include commanding the 66th Armored Field Artillery Battalion at Fort
Hood, Texas, from1956-1957; chief of aviation training on the Army staff, Washington, D. C.
From 1957-1959 and Military Assistant to the Secretary of the Army from 1959-1961.
Colonel Fleming was a graduate of the Artillery Officers Advance Course, the Command
and General Staff College and the Army War College.
The colonel entered Army aviation in 1951. Qualified in both fixed and rotary wing
aircraft, he has logged over 5,000 hours of flying time.
In addition to two awards of the Bronze Star Medal, he wears the Purple Heart,
Presidential Unit Citation with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation,
the Army Commendation Medal and the Joint Services Commendation Medal. He also was
awarded the Legion of Merit Medal for his services at Fort Wolters.
This article was written in the Staff Information Office, Fort Wolters. Copied for historical
purposes only.
Willie H. Casper, Jr.
Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)
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Casper, Willie H., Jr. Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 2: Primary Helicopter Center Personnel, book, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth24854/m1/23/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.