Who Is John Wehrle's Landing Zone?

Landing Zone by John O. Wehrle, CAT I, 1966
Bio
John Wehrle was born 1941, in San Antonio, TX is an American artist currently living in Richmond, CA. Wehrle is best known as a muralist and site-specific installation artist Proficient in painting, sculpture and photography, his work is in public and private collections. His work has been internationally collected.
Wehrle is the son of an educator and a salesman. His father, Larry Wehrle, graduated from Texas A&M, where he was Captain of the Aggie Band, receiving a commission in the US Army Signal Corps. He served in Europe during World War 2. Upon returning to civilian life he entered the feed business becoming Sales Manager for progressively larger companies in different Texas cities until his retirement in 1980..[2]
Growing up in various Texas towns and cities, John Wehrle developed artistic skills to compensate for constantly being the new kid on the block. Living in Waco, Texas as a teenager, he participated in a nationally recognized youth theater at Baylor University. He attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas where he was cartoonist for the school paper and named outstanding senior art student there. Actively showing work during his later school years, he was accepted in
Wehrle designed the unofficial combat art pin later adopted by other teams to create finished paintings of their experience for the Army’s Military History Division. He then returned to Sacramento Army Depot to serve the final months of his