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LT. MICHAEL J. LIBONATI JR.
World War I was the war to end all wars, but 33 years later the United States became entangled in World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Again Vacaville’s young men, and women, were off to war. Among the hundreds in uniform from Vacaville was Michael Libonati Jr., a Vacaville native, and also the son of local area pioneer fruit growers.
Young Libonati, a graduate of Vaca High, had become a second lieutenant in the Air Force, and was to see unending service as a bombardier aboard a Flying Fortress on missions over Western Europe.
It was a sad day in January 1943 when the War Department notified the young man’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Libonati, that their son, 24, was missing in action over Western Europe.
For many weeks following, the bewildered mother, carried on correspondence in an attempt to ascertain the fate of her son. At one point she was given assurance by the boy’s squadron commander, that he was a prisoner of war of the Germans; but as time rolled on Mrs. Libonati was to receive word from another source verifying the death of her son, who was struck by flack while operating his guns in a Flying Fortress. The plane crashed behind enemy lines.

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THE MISSION
The purposes of this corporation are fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational, and are:
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to preserve and strengthen comradeship among the its members;
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to assist worthy comrades;
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to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their surviving spouses and orphans;
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to maintain thru allegiance to the Government of the United States, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws;
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to foster true patriotism;
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to maintain and extend the institutions of America freedom;
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to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies.

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Jack Wood
1956-1957
George M. Cass
1957-1958
Arthur L. Smith
1958-1959
David M. Kuster
1959-1960
Benjamin S. Dodge
1960-1961
Danzil "Ed" Miller
1960-1962
Fred A. Stevens
1962-1963
Robert E. Riddle
1963-1965
George Matheson
1965-1966
Danzil "Ed" Miller
1966-1968
Robert C. McLaughlin
1968-1969
Wayne Ross
1969-1971
George Spicier
1971-1972
Kenneth Smith
1972-1974
Raul Trevino
1974-1975
Robert McLaughlin
1975-1976
Edwin Larson
1976-1977
Everleigh Waters
1978-1980
Allen H. Osnes
1980-1982
Raymond L. Darden
1982-1983
John Sportsman
1983-1985
Everleigh H. Waters
1985-1986
Ray Sayler
1986-1988
George Gutherie
1988-1989
H. Lee Tedder
1989-1991
Manual Blea
1991-1993
John E. Angier
1993-1995
Clyde Colburn
1995-1997
Robert Clark
1997-1999
Bill Near
1999-2001
Jake Germeraad
2001-2003
Wulfrano Corrington
2003-2005
John Sorrick
2005-2007
Richard Smith
2007-2009
Cordell Bailey
2009-2011
Paul Hulburt
2011-2014
Bob Vigil
2014-2016
Paul Hulburt
2016-2017
Mike Little
2017-2020
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2020-2021