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Ray Simpkins, kneeling, far right, is shown with other airmen undergoing advanced flight training in 1943 in Kansas.
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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 CampCrayton 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 c...
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Williams Was A World War II Bridge Builder, Flat FixerBy 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 earl...
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Bogged Down At Anzio BeachSOUTH 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. H...
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Biggest Naval Battle In HistorySOUTH 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 steami...
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Polishing Up After World War IIWHEELERSBURG — Walter Marley turned 18 in February 1946 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in April, nearly eight months after Japan signed the unconditional surrender document with the United States...
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Memories Of War Linger OnWHEELERSBURG — Almost 65 years have passed since those days when Boyd N. Adkins Jr. manned the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang, a long-range, single-seat fighter plane. He provided cover for th...
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For Judge John Bell Marshall, a Naval officer in World War II, most of the war went pretty smooth. It wasn’t until after the war was over, actually, away off there in the East China Sea and the Ye...
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When he graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1938, James Donaldson knew his vocational calling was to be an architect. His father, Charles M. Donaldson, was a long-time Portsmouth architect. He...
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Some 65 years after they fought in the Pacific Islands, on the European continent, and on the Atlantic Ocean to preserve freedom in World War II, three Portsmouth men made the trip to see the memor...
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SOUTH SHORE, Ky. — Dudley Morton spent 4 1/2 years in the Army during World War II, participating in campaigns and invasions in Northern Africa, Tunisia, Sicily, Naples, Rome, Southern France, Rhin...
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Harrison “Brock” Brockett, 89, who lives today in Portsmouth’s Hill View Retirement Center, graduated from Parish High School in upstate New York, 30 miles from Syracuse, and was working as a truck...
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Bob Ramey of Portsmouth served on ocean-going Merchant Marine ships during World War II, and he still wonders today if it was poison gas the Army offloaded from his ship and left buried on that Ita...
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