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Young Lyons was educated in Shreveport at the public South Highlands Elementary School and the private Southfield School with instruction through the eighth grade. He graduated from the college preparatory Lawrenceville School, a boarding school in Lawrenceville in Mercer County in central [[New Jersey]]. After enlistment in the United States Naval Reserve, Lyons studied at Centenary College in Shreveport, where the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse is named for his mother, and then [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=lyonsfamily/>​

Young Lyons was educated in Shreveport at the public South Highlands Elementary School and the private Southfield School with instruction through the eighth grade. He graduated from the college preparatory Lawrenceville School, a boarding school in Lawrenceville in Mercer County in central [[New Jersey]]. After enlistment in the United States Naval Reserve, Lyons studied at Centenary College in Shreveport, where the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse is named for his mother, and then [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=lyonsfamily/>​

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Lyons received his commission as an ensign in the [[United States Navy]] through the Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, [[Illinois]]. Lyons was then assigned to duty at the Leyte Gulf in the [[Philippines]]. While headed to Leyte, his plane developed engine trouble and was compelled to land at Peleliu Island. The noted newspaperman Ernie Pyle was aboard the altered flight. Upon reaching Leyte, the small ship to which Lyons had been assigned had already departed for the [[Battle of Okinawa|invasion of Okinawa]] off the [[Japan]]ese coast. He finally reached [[Okinawa Island]], where he remained for eighteen months. At the end of the war, Lyons was in command of the ship called ''USS Landing Craft Tank 1326''. While in Okinawa, he found relief from military duties to plan a duck hunt, the story of which was carried on June 1, 1946, in the sporting-dog magazine, ''American Field''.<ref name=lyonsfamily>{{cite web|url=http://lyonsfamilytree.com/2007/11/20/hall-mccord-lyons/|title=Hall McCord Lyons|date=November 20, 2007|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref>

Lyons received his commission as an ensign in the [[United States Navy]] through the Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, [[Illinois]]. Lyons was then assigned to duty at the Leyte Gulf in the [[Philippines]]. While headed to Leyte, his plane developed engine trouble and was compelled to land at Peleliu Island. The noted newspaperman Ernie Pyle was aboard the altered flight. Upon reaching Leyte, the small ship to which Lyons had been assigned had already departed for the [[Battle of Okinawa|invasion of Okinawa]] off the [[Japan]]ese coast. He finally reached [[Okinawa Island]], where he remained for eighteen months.<ref name=lyonsfamily/>

 

At the end of the war, Lyons was in command of the ship called ''USS Landing Craft Tank 1326''. While in Okinawa, he found relief from military duties to plan a duck hunt, the story of which was carried on June 1, 1946, in the sporting-dog magazine, ''American Field''.<ref name=lyonsfamily>{{cite web|url=http://lyonsfamilytree.com/2007/11/20/hall-mccord-lyons/|title=Hall McCord Lyons|date=November 20, 2007|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref>

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