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surviving servicemen
John Estep paused Friday to reflect on his World War II days.
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In the early 1940s, when John Estep was a teenager, teachers and other mentors of that generation spoke of religious principles, of love for God and country, of men being willing to die to uphold t...
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The USS Johnston DD 557 is listed in the annals of World War II as one of the bravest ships to do battle in the Pacific, and this was all because of its skipper, Commander Ernest E. Evans, a full-b...
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Art “Bub” Lewis recalls his first night on French soil as the loneliest and most uncertain time of his life. He was just past his 20th birthday and 4,000 miles from his Ohio home in South Webster....
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WHEELERSBURG — James Howard had no problem deciding what he wanted to do upon finishing high school. He graduated from Wheelersburg on May 25, 2002, and four days later left for duty with the U.S. ...
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WHEELERSBURG — You’d never know it to hear him tell it — he never talks to family members much about it, not in much detail — but few American fighting men saw more combat action in the Pacific isl...
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It was a round-about route that led Richard “Dick” Jenkins from Portsmouth to the controls of a C-47 “Skytrain,” which evolved from the DC-3 airliner. The C-47 was the standard transport used by t...
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The early part of Paul R. Morton’s World War II experience reads like something out of a Milton Caniff comic strip adventure featuring ace pilot Flip Corkin — or the more modern-day Hal Jordan. Th...
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