Jack Mohr, Jr.

Taking Part in a special helicopter airlift in the Hawaiian Islands are three Manning Marines. Members of the 9th Marine Regiment they are: Pvt. Donald L. Lerssen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lerssen; Pvt. James R. Wingrove, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Wingrove; and Pvt. Arthur F. Zerwas.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil Council Bluffs, June 26, 1955

Five Manning Youths Finish Basic Training
Donald Lerssen, James Wingrove, Jack Wagner, Art Zerwas, and Jack Mohr, Manning boys who enlisted in the Marine Corps together have completed basic training at San Diego. California. They are now spending leaves in their homes here. All except Mohr will report for foreign duty at Camp Pendleton, California. He will report at another California camp.
Carroll Daily Times Herald Carroll, September 17, 1954

Manning Marines Leave For Japan
Four Manning men, who joined the Marines together last spring, have left for duty in Japan.
They are Jack Wagner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Wagner; Don Lerssen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lerssen; Art Zerwas, son of and Mrs. Dick Zerwas; James Wingrove, son of Mr. Mrs. Dan Wingrove.
Jack Mohr, son of Mr. Mrs. Jack Mohr, who joined Marine at the same time, returned to Santa Ana, California, following a holiday visit here.
Daily Nonpareil, January 4, 1955

Get Transfers
Four Manning men, who joined the Marines men, tether and have been stationed in Japan have been transferred. Don Lerssen, Artie Zerwas, and James Wingrove have been transferred to Hawaii. Jack Wagner is now in Okinawa.
Daily Nonpareil, February 20, 1955

Jack enlisted in the Marine Corps at Omaha, Nebraska, in June 1954. He took twelve weeks of basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California; then shipped out to El Toro MCAS, California; Kaneohe Bay MCAS, Oahu; and then to the Navy Ammo Depot at Hastings, Nebraska, for discharge. Jack enlisted in the Air Force in 1958 at Omaha, Nebraska, and drew his Air Force issue at Lowry AFB, Colorado, where he started his Air Force career as an Administrative Supervisor at the Base Adjutants Office.

He was transferred to Base Operations in Sondrestrom AB, Greenland; Chief Electronics and Maintenance Office with the Montgomery Air Defense Sector, Gunter AFB, Alabama; Standardization Office with the Chief of Maintenance, Spangdahlem AS, Germany; Congressional Inquiry Division with The Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, DC; Comptrollers Office with the 366 Combat Support Gp, Da Nang AB, Vietnam; Administration Office with the Air Force Retraining Gp, Lowry AFB, Colorado; Detachment Administration with Air Force Recruiting Service, Denver Office.

Jack served in combat at Da Nang AB, Vietnam, in 1969. He received four Air Force Commendation Medals, six Marine Corps/ Air Force Good Conduct Medals, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Technical Sergeant Mohr retired from the Air Force in September 1975.

Jack commented: "It was certainly an honor to serve our great country, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. A big thanks to all the men and women who have served our country." Jack and his family made their home in Colorado and worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Denver for twenty-one years, retiring in August 1996.