Ramon Rivas

Ramón Martín Rivas and Henrietta Lopez met during the war, while he was on leave from his assignment in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. He was a native of Charlotte, a South Texas farming community. She was a native of San Antonio and worked at Kelly Field, repairing airplane instruments. The two married in 1945. Rivas served with the 3d Replacement Battalion, in Dutch Harbor, on the Aleutian Island closest to the coast of Alaska in the North Pacific.