Gregory L. Owen

​Greg Owen is an Investment Advisor with Long Service Agency in Harrisonburg, and is a retired banker of forty years.
 
He is an Honors graduate of James Madison University, with a BA Degree in History, Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in History.

He was named a George C. Marshall Scholar, conferred by the George C. Marshall Foundation at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA for research and writing an expansive work in military history.

Greg is the author of a World War II biography, The Longest Patrol, A U-Boat Gunner’s War, which was published in 2006, revised in 2009, and has enjoyed worldwide sales.

He has written an extensive research guide, Wehrmacht Autumns; German Prisoners of War in the Plains District of Rockingham County, Virginia During World War II, which is available through the Library of Virginia as well as through local libraries in Rockingham and Augusta Counties.

He has presented public lectures on various history topics in more than 100 venues across Virginia.

Greg served a number of years on the Board of Trustees for the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society, with two terms as Chairman of the Board.

He is a member of the Fort Harrison Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, representing five direct ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Greg is a passionate travel photographer and Europhile, with 25 independent excursions to Western and Eastern Europe, Great Britain and Ireland.

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