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Art Lewis, center, stands with Army buddies Johnny Searles of Oak Hill, left, and A.J. Collier of Red Bay, Ala., on the Siegfried Line on the border of France and Germany. Both Army buddies are now dead. An Engineering Depot Company
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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Cpl. James Howard prepares to head out on patrol with his platoon in Iraq. Surviving Servicemen: From Iraqi Freedom Soldier To Youth Minister
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....
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In this Department of Defense photo, a hospital corpsman helps Otworth to a first aid station after he was gunned down on Iwo Jima. With The Fourth Marine Division
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 ...
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Dick Jenkins reminisces about his experiences of flying a C-47, a model of the plane shown, in the Pacific Islands during World War II. The Making Of A Combat Pilot
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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Last year, at age 93, Morton still fit into his Braniff summer uniform. Morton Was A Test Pilot From PHS
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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Petty officer Paul Sanderson and WAVE Pauline duck the rice as they leave the church after their wedding. Flight Instructor From Otway
America’s cause was right, they knew, and for most members of what has been termed, “The Greatest Generation,” their participation and survival in World War II’s horrific battles, fought on foreig...
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‘I Didn’t Win No War’
by G. Sam Piatt
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WHEELERSBURG – Robert Taylor “Bob” Johnson would have had time after graduating from high school to earn a college degree before the Army drafted him for duty in World War II. If so, he might have ...
Ray Simpkins, B-24 Bomber Pilot, Army Air Force
by G. Sam Piatt
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PIKETON — American infantrymen were on ground level with enemy soldiers, eyeball to eyeball so to speak, and the killing that had to be done was sometimes personal and gruesome. But the men who f...
Crayton Burns Survived POW Camp
by G. Sam Piatt
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Crayton Burns pulled off his shirt in his Portsmouth home on Gilbert Avenue to show a visitor the scar left along the side of his neck and across his shoulder and down along the left side of his ch...
Williams Was A World War II Bridge Builder, Flat Fixer
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By G. SAM PIATT PDT Staff Writer WHEELERSBURG — A hernia kept Everett Williams from taking part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy (June 6, 1944), but he caught up with World War II in early 19...
Bogged Down At Anzio Beach
by G. Sam Piatt
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SOUTH SHORE, Ky. — Like a lot of other young men in the South Shore-Portsmouth area in the summer of 1943, Don Traylor didn’t have to worry about finding a steady job. A job with excitement. He wa...
Biggest Naval Battle In History
by G. Sam Piatt
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SOUTH SHORE, Ky. — Just two months after graduating from McKell High School in May 1944, Omer Glenn “Cobby” Webb was a sailor on board the USS Natoma Bay, pulling out of San Diego and steaming for ...
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