Tazewell Man Honored With Two Distinguished Unit Citations
Cpl James G Gillespie of North Tazewell in the 15th AAP P-47 unit in Italy helped earn two Distinguished Unit Citations. The group destroyed 21 enemy aircraft over Sardinia on July 30 1943 and 37 planes near Villaorba on January 30 in the Italian campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G
Red) Gillespie
North Tazewell
15Th
AAP
Italy
Sardinia
Villaorba
Corporal Gillespie
Ava Stevenson Gillespie
Robert G. Gillespie
Crockett’s Cove
Kenneth B. Gillespie
Haynes
Berwind
Joe Earl
Red
Missing Weatherman Harley Weatherman Sinks On D-Day
Weatherman Harley Bruce Weatherman, a fireman third class in the U. S. Navy, has been reported missing in action since June 6 after his destroyer escort Rich No. 695 was sunk on D-day. Inducted June 5, 1943, he trained at Sampson New York and Norfolk Virginia. Parents Mr and Mrs J W Weatherman reside...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart
D. S. Stewart
Clovis Street
This City
Emmett H. Stewart
Camp Shelby
Miss
Guatemala
Central America
Panama Canal Zone
National Guard
Ishmael W. Stewart
U.S. Navy
Hawaii
Great Nnyon
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Frances Whitlow
Princeton Avenue
Calfee
Sutton Calfee
Route 1
Bluefield
Joe M. Calfee
Lowryfield
Denver
Colo
Army Air Forces
Jefferson Barracks
Fred H. Caffee
Europe
Pfc
Sesto Brugnoli
Adalind Brugnoli
McComas
New Guinea
Brugnoli
Fort McClellan
Ala
San Luis Obispo
Calif
Hawaiian Islands
Harley Bruce Weatherman
U. S. Navy
War Department
Rich
Weatherman
Sampson
N. Y
Norfolk
J. W. Weatherman
Notable Family Ties Mentioned in Local Notices
The text identifies a man at Ivanhoe and notes he is the father of an 18 month old son. It mentions his sisters Mrs Sam Kelley and Mrs Sherman Goforth living on the Bremwell road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Duncan
Camp Grant, Ill
Goodwill
Harold Bailey
Cletus E. Bailey
U. S. Marine Corps
Parris Island
S. C
Elkton
Corporal Patterson
G. G. Petty
Ivanhoe
Sam Kelley
Sherman Goforth
Bremwell Road
Pfc Edwin Stafford Listed as Missing in Action
Pfc Edwin L Stafford son of Mrs sites L Goodwin of Pem broke Virginia identified among 18 Virginians reported by the War Department as missing in action. He was listed as missing in the Mediterranean area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win L. Stafford
Sites L. Goodwin
Pembroke
War Department
Stafford
Mediterranean
Sgt Ratliff Earns Air Medal in Fifteenth AAF
Sgt Ratliff W Johnson of Cedar Bluff Virginia serves as an engineer gunner in a B 24 Liberator group with the Fifteenth Army Air Force in Italy. He earned the Air Medal after flying 22 combat missions over France Italy Germany Austria Hungary Romania and Yugoslavia since arriving in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifteenth Aaf
Italy
Ratliff W. Johnson
Augustus Johnson
Cedar Bluff
Johnson
France
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Rumania
Yugoslavia
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Tazewell
Jacket
Keon Mountain
George
Bishop
Fort Bragg
N. C
Air Corps
Bowmanfield
Arlington Hall
Arlington
McNew
Dave McNew
Duhring
U.S Army
Southwest Pacific
Douglas Bailey
C.C. Bailey
Atlantic
Cpl
J. G. Gillespie
U. S. Rubber Company
Detroit
Nicewander
Bernard S. Akers
San Diego
Pearl Harbor
Commercial Milling Company of
Earl Shrader
Matorka
Bluefield Sanitarium
Halie Shrader
Pamsy Shrader
Matoaka
William Colliers
Bud
Emmett H
Red) Hedrick
James E. Hedrick
Brushfork
Infantry
U.S. Army
Stowers Motor Company
Pvt
Sherrill Taylor
Philip Taylor
Portsmouth
Woodrow .Taylor
Princeton
Aberdeen
Camp Reynolds
Charles A. Turner
Fort Leonard Wood Mo
Greenville
Charles A. Duncan
Sidney M. Phillips
Harold W. Bailey
Bain Patterson
Durward Patterson
Leonard O. Bailey
Duncan
U. S Navy
Private Phillips
Guy Phillips
Indian Valley
U. S Marine Corps
Great Lakes
Ill
Leonard Bailey
Cletus Bailey
Camp Blanding
Fila
Fort Sill
Oklo
Hendrick
J. R. Hendrick
Maybeury
Cecil Hendrick
Gloria Jean
Great
Camp Chaffee
Ark
England
Edgar Hendrick
Gulfport
Armed Guards
Denver N. Holbrook
Tech
James W. Holbrook
A. D. Carter, Jr
Randolph Holbrook
Charles V. King
Holbrook
R. M. Holbrook
Val
Cassie Holbrook
Texas
Camp Bowie
King
Hartford
Conn
Greenland
States
Thelma Holbrook
Deal H. Stout
South Pacific
H. Stout
Willow Street
Wade
The
Daily Telegraph
Warren
Ralph
C. E. Dempsey
C. J. Dempsey
Bluestone
Dempsey
Armed Forces
Prc
Ernest K. Evans
Byron C. Bailey
David L. McNew
Douglas A. Bailey
Evans
Jesse Evans
Boissevain
Marine Corps
Central Pacific
Byron Pailey
C. C. Bailey
Springville
Lonnie E. Kell
George Kinder
Kell
Luther Kell
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Kinder
Sallie Kinder
Camp Young
Little Rock
William M. Rash
McKinley Rash
Radford
US Army Air Forces
Miami Beach
Fla
Sioux City
Iowa
Signal Company
Mb Division
Mercer Cry
Wenona
Springton
Sten
Radord
Robert
T. D. Meadwell
Pocahontas
U. S. Army
Fort George G. Meade
Akers
G. S. Akers
Harrison Street
George Clark Akers
Albert J. Akers
Arthur A. Akers
Camp Carson
Edwin L. Stafford
Sgt. Ratliff
Air Medal
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