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99: 81: 292: 109: 230: 206: 50: 606:: "He fought 240 consecutive days of combat across France and Germany. “To survive in combat,” he later said, “you had to become a geographer,” always sensitive to the details of terrain and relative positions. He left the service as a captain with a Silver Star, Bronze Medal, and a Distinguished Unit Citation." This obituary says he was in the 44th Infantry Division. 21: 240: 598:
My name is Chris G. Watson. Doug Powell was my instructor for a Geography of California class (Geog 390) at Sonoma State University, California in the Fall 2000 semester. Besides teaching us this subject, he also told us stories of his extended combat service as an infantryman in Europe in World War
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That obituary also says "In addition to camping with John Steinbeck, Powell had met Wyatt Earp; he had watched Jesse Owens win four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, and then he and his brother had gotten to know Owens on their return voyage to the U.S.; working for a dendrochronology expert,
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He was an astonishing man. I was lucky to have a class with him as instructor near the end of his life. Besides being an excellent teacher, he was also a great storyteller. I was dismayed to see that his page was considered for deletion! So many people had their lives changed by him, and he
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Doug's expertise in snow is also discussed in that obituary: "Doug Powell was an expert snow surveyor, snow hydrologist, and stream flow forecaster; his work significantly improved the reliability and accuracy of California’s snow survey system. "
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contributed much to many different fields. I hope this helps Knowledge (XXG). I do not yet have the editing skills to write this up in the proper code. I hope someone can find more links to put into this page based on what I have shared here.
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Powell had helped find the White Mountains’ oldest living bristlecone pine, the oldest living tree on earth; from the White Mountains, he had watched aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site."
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II where he credited his knowledge of geography with helping him and his comrades stay alive. He also told of his fascination with the bristlecone pine trees and his expert experience in snow.
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He was a decorated combat veteran of World War II. According to an obituary at
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Doug Powell was a highly-respected authority on several subjects
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