Wallace H. Graham

(1910-1996) lived in Omaha. Physician, educator, military officer, served as combat surgeon in U.S. Army during World War II in Europe, was in charge of field hospital and accompanied combat forces, assigned to White House as physician to U.S. President Harry S. Truman from 1945 to 1953, taught at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, maintained private practice in Kansas City, Missouri; was honored with awards from several nations, achieved rank of brigadier general in Air Force Reserve. Consult Current Biography (1947) 254-257 and New York Times obituary, January 9, 1996, p. 10.

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