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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1944
Page
7
Obituary note indicates Mr. McNeilly once lived in Amarillo while employed by the Santa Fe Railway. Funeral services were held last Thursday in Long Beach. Surviving relatives include his mother Mrs. J. T. McNeilly and brother C. B. McNeilly of Tammes Illinois. A niece Mrs. J. S. Nugent resides at 1712 Monroe.
War story details a GI James Sligar using his sense of smell to track and trap two hidden German machine gunners, saving his squad. Other vignettes note Lt. William Maxwell and Technical Sgt. Edward Perry interacting with officers during a Vorposten advance, highlighting humor and misperceptions in combat.
Eugene N. Shepard of Amarillo, a first lieutenant, heads the Engineer Forestry Battalion in France. The unit, the Army’s only specialist woods force, supplies lumber, pilings and railroad ties for engineers and wears loggers boots with spikes. The battalion is dispersed, with components in France and elsewhere in the South Pacific. Shepard previously worked as an engineer for Shamrock Oil & Gas.
The record notes that Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon discovered Florida on Easter Sunday March 27, 1513, marking a landmark voyage in early American exploration.
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