Wilson Allen Heefner

Wilson A. Heefner, M.D., was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, in 1931, and graduated from Waynesboro Senior High School in 1949. Immediately following graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Army, beginning a forty-one-year military career as an enlisted man, infantry officer, and medical officer in the Regular Army, Army National Guard, and U.S. Army Reserve, and retired in the grade of colonel. He holds degrees from Gettysburg College (B.A.), the University of Maryland School of Medicine (M.D.), and the University of Hawaii (M.A., U.S. History), and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the Korean Service Medal. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. Doctor Heefner is married to Patrica, and has two children and four grandchildren. He currently resides in Stockton, California.

After retiring from a twenty-eight-year career as a pathologist and nuclear physician he began a second career as a military historian and author. He has authored three published biographies, "Twentieth Century Warrior: The Life and Service of Major General Edwin D. Patrick"(1995), "Patton's Bulldog: The Life and Service of General Walton H. Walker" (2001), and "Dogface Soldier: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr." (2010).