La Grange hero’s legacy lives as story of American Legion post namesake is shared with new generations

La Grange hero’s legacy lives as story of American Legion post namesake is shared with new generations

On February 1, 1943, a 28-year-old graduate of Lyons Township High School was scheduled to relax on one of his rare days off as an Army Air Corps bomber pilot in the European Theater during World War II. But one of the pilots scheduled to fly that day was sick, and someone had to take his place. So he volunteered. That selfless act cost Major Robert E. Coulter Jr. his life. He’s memorialized in the name of La Grange’s Robert E. Coulter Jr. Ameri…