Paul Logasa Bogen

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Paul Logasa Bogen (March 15, 1915 - June 4, 1972) was a United States Army soldier.

He served in WWII in the European theatre-Normandy/Brittany/N. France the Ardennes/Rhineland. Later he served as a senior U.S. Army Colonel during the Vietnam War. He was the son of Dr. Issac Louis Bogen, who discoverer of the aerosol delivery of asthma medication, and Ida Ruth "Bogen" Goldhammer-sister and are the niece and nephew respectively to library innovator, Hannah Logasa and brother to famous painter, Charles Logasa. In his 35-year Army career, he served in the Infantry, Artillery, Armored, Intelligence, and Airborne Corps. During the "Korean Conflict" he was an instructor at the War College, Carlisle Barracks as the first receipient of the Eisenhower Chair for Strategic Planning, was the Assistant to the Director of Defense Intelligence, chief of staff at Fort Knox and Fort Richardson, chief of staff for the 5th Army, head of the Army Concept Team in Vietnam, and head of security for the Chairman Khrushchev visit. He died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet sting at his home in San Antonio, TX shortly after turning down a promotion to Brigadier General to spend more time with his wife, Elizabeth Jane Herd, has four children, (Patricia Jane, James Michael, Charles Logasa,and John Dean).