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Petty officer Paul Sanderson and WAVE Pauline duck the rice as they leave the church after their wedding.
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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 foreign...
‘I Didn’t Win No War’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 ha...
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Ray Simpkins, B-24 Bomber Pilot, Army Air ForcePIKETON — 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...
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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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WHEELERSBURG — 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 an...
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WHEELERSBURG -- 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 the big, ...
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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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