This is Major John E. Hatch, commandant of the ROTC detachment. He graduated from West Point in 1911, making him just 37 or so here.

He studied artillery, taught at West Point from 1917 to 1920 and was promoted to captain the year he left the USMA and was shipped to Fort Bragg. (His father and father-in-law also graduated from West Point.)

So this was just another stop for the man in uniform. Hatch and his wife had three children, including two sons who also went into the service. One, John Jr., a major, died in a plane accident in Germany just after World War 2. The other, McGlachlin, served in Korea, and was a colonel. John Sr. also left the service as a colonel. He died in Texas, in 1981. He was 94.

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