This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Ed Cushman Jr. and the can of peaches legend
A war memoir recounts Ed Cushman Jr of Aiken and Marine ally Al sharing a canned peach rescue on Guadalcanal. The piece follows the push from Iron Bottom Sound to Iwo Jima, the atomic bombs ending the war, and Cushman’s later legal and political career in South Carolina.
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Vincennes
Astoria
Quincy
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Iron Bottom
Naval Command
Jowel
al SI
Ened
Australia
San Francisco
Charleston
Aiken
Ft. Sill
Camp Pendleton
Hawaii
Iwo Jima
Japan
Ed Kittrell
Kittrell
Tyler
Tex
Tarana
Kittrel
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Laci
Ruth Leed (Tinks) Roberts
Mary Nagel Cushman
Edd
Leeil
Lecil
Etter
Henderson and Salley
Henderson, Salley and Cushman
House of Represen
State Senate
Johntown
US. 78
Midlands Valley
Edward Charles Cushman Jr
Society Page
Marine Machine