Benjamin S. Persons is a consulting civil engineer and geologist in Atlanta, Georgia. An ROTC student from the Georgia Military Academy and Georgia Institute of Technology he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry at 19. During World War II he served through activation and training as an anti-tank platoon leader in the 42nd Infantry (Rainbow) Division. Before the Division departed for France, Persons transferred to the Division Engineers. In combat in France, Germany and Austria, he led an Engineer platoon attached to the 2nd Battalion of the 232nd Infantry. He was awarded the Bronze and the Silver Stars. After the war, in occupation, he was the S-3 of an Engineer combat group in Austria. Returning to the Georgia Institute of Technology, Persons received his degree in civil engineering and entered the practice with Dames & Moore in California. He later worked in Illinois and established the firm's engineering practice in the Southeast and then managed the firm's offices in Australia and the Pacific. Captain Persons has worked extensively in North America, Central America, Africa, and the Pacific. As an inactive Reserve Engineer officer in the United States Public Health Service he has seen engineering duty on the Navajo, Hopi, Ogalala Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Blackfeet, Crow, Santo Domingo, San ildefonso, Gros Vente, and Assinibone Reservations. He has received the Unit Commendation for an innovative revision of the foundation design for the Crow Reservation Hospital in Montana. He is a member of the Geology Board of Georgia. Persons has written of his boyhood for a weekly newspaper in Georgia and has written the definitive work LATERITE, GENESIS, LOCATION, USE, (Plenum 1970) and the historical books RELIEVEDOF COMMAND (Sunflower University Press 1997) and COURT OF INQUIRY (Sunflower University Press,2001). He hunts upland game and waterfowl and is a fresh-and saltwater boater at home and abroad.

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