Tazewell Lt Col Johnson receives French honors Medal of Honor Croix de Guerre
Lt Col James R. Johnson of Tazewell Va recently received the French Medal of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with Palm in a ceremony attended by several generals. Johnson said he did not know the precise citation but recalled the presentation with swords, kisses, and handshakes as flags and troops passed in review.
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James R. Johnson
Tazewell
J. B. Johnson
Johnson
France
United States
General Doty
Metz
Place de Republique
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Schneider
Bluefield Soldier Captures Adain Alone Eight Hours
Staff Sergeant James Spurrier, a 21 year old Regular Army man from Blue Ridge West Virginia, led a solitary offensive that lasted eight hours to seize the town of Adain. He killed 25 Germans and captured 18 including a lieutenant and a captain. He used German and American weapons during the action praised by Major F C Roecker as cooler and smarter than typical bravery. Spurrier said he was simply shooting and does not remember much of the day.
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Adain
Junior J. Spurrier
J. I. Spurrier
Bluefield
Daily Telegraph
Jimmy Cannon
Stars and Stripes
United States Armed Forces
35Th
Inf. Div
Lorraine
James Spurrier
Blue Ridge
West Va
Consant
Maj
F. C. Roecker
Walla Walla
Wash
Spurrier
Draft Board 1 Calls 61 Inductions for January in Tazewell County
Tazewell county draft board No. 1 announces 61 white registrants for induction in January and 161 pre induction exams. Reports to Roanoke for entrainment January 8 and January 9 11 28 dates listed. Names of registrants and local offices noted with status changes and deferment reviews ongoing.
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Tazewell
Gen
Hershey
Selective Service
Tazewell County
National Health Safety
A1 Ind Tees
Acton
Board
Roanoke
Edd Victor Taylor
North Tazewell
Alfred Gene Wilburn
Amonate
James Robert Lowe
Joseph Widmar
Samuel Lester
Cedar
John Hartley Nelson
Rich
Clarence Newton Lowe
Egar James Waithrow
Elbert Miller
Raven
Codie Anderson Brannock
John Cecil Gillespie
Alexander Butcher
Red Ash
Charles Russell Hess
Richland
Grover Robert Morefield
George Kelly Cox
Robert Neal Patrick
Asberry’s
Clarence Barn Wilcox
Clarence Stilwell
Buster Gordon Helmandollar
Wade Brooks Mullins
Bishop
Robert Jay Jennings
Richlands
Earl Alfred Davis
Quintin Roosevelt Bandy
William Charles Ratliff
James Willie Edwards
Fred Douglas Smith
Harold Paul Buskell
Levi Jesse Parks
Colen Dick Angle
Carlos William Jamison
Lawrence Andrew
John Paxton Cole
Joseph Luther Sparks
Cedar Bluff
Homer Eugene Shelton
Donald James Howery
Thomas Melvin Williams, Jr
Douglas Claud Ramey
Floyd Monroe Smith
Rufus Newton Stevenson
Jewell Ridge
James McKinley Wilson, Jr
Eugene Dewey Kennedy
Andrew White, Jr
Jack Arthur Repass
Marvin Adkins
Issac Junior Elswick
Frank Luther Hawkins
Draft Board
Samuel Clarence Lowe
Seaboard
Grover C. Wright
Winfred Herman McGhee
David Preston Smith
Jess Wilson
Robert Pearl Bailey
Basel Noah Casey
George Cedrickne
Eugene Larry McGraw
Paul B. Compton
Charles Henry Baker
Artemis Smith
William Red Gillespie
Carl Howard Chaffin
Earl Harrison Witt
Cliffield
Noah Garfield Hale
Garnett Theo Hawkins
John Paul Lester
Edward Hagg
Tannersville
Earl Franklin Pennington
Roscoe Couch Steele
John Lloyd
West Virginia Marines Share Christmas in Pacific Front
A West Virginia air unit in the Pacific sent Christmas greetings home via a group photo. Three Marines posed with a decorated cardboard Yule greeting in front of a dive bomber, sending cheerful notes that a white Christmas may be unlikely but a happy one is planned. The piece lists many local or born-in-West-Virginia personnel by name.
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Pacific
West Virginia
Creek
Set
Roy T. Jones
E. B. Jones
Eccles Jones
Jones
Roy W. McKee
William McKee
Wheeling
Pfc
Bernard R. Bailey
Beulah R. Bailey
Bluefield Avenue
Princeton
W. E. Bailey
Holiday Guests and Army Families Visit in Tazewell Area
Christmas visitors fill homes across Tazewell county with relatives from North Tazewell Johnston City Bluefield and Blacksburg including Mrs R E Kitts Elizabeth and Lieut Frankie Hoke. Dr J A Abercrombie returns from Baltimore to recuperate for Yale season. Others include Miss Virginia Harker and Mrs C M Whitley visiting family and military families from Davy Wheeling and Smithfield during the holidays.
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R. E. Kitts
Elizabeth
Emporia
George W. Litton
Blacksburg
Fanny Harreitt
Lyde Tynes
Douglas Fleet, Jr
Clinton
Tenn
St. Clair Peery
Katherine Gibb
New York City
L. L. Dickenson
John P. Moss
Moss
Johnny
Johnston City
Virginia Harker
Brooks
N. J
Miss Harker
J. A. Abercrombie
D. R. Kitts
North Tazewell
Keith Thompson
Davy
W. Va
Thompson
Jane Mundy
Rose Whitley
Whitley
Whiteley's
Frank Shelton
Blanch Call
Katherine McCall
Bluefield
Area men listed as casualties in Europe action
Pfc. Ralph R. Hager of Princeton was slightly wounded in Germany on December 4 and is hospitalized in France. his wife Beatrice Hager, employed in Narrows, Va., was notified. Pfc. Clifford C. Hambrick, also of Princeton, was wounded again in Germany on December 1 and is in England after prior wounds in France. Pfc. Edward A. Kessinger of Princeton is missing in France since November 26. his wife Edna Lucille Kessinger has been notified. Lt. James Robert Howard of Gary was killed in Germany on September 24. he was a 1942 graduate of Washington and Lee and Virginia Bar member, survived by his parents and wife. He was buried by the time of report in Uniontown, Pa.
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Pvt
Chap Nash
Edward Garland Lowery
Nash
George L. Nash
Bluefield Avenue
Seventh Army
Germany
Norfolk and Western Railway
Bluefield
Lowery
Walter L. Clement
Norfolk
Jacksonville
Fla
Kresge Five
Ten Cent
Navy
Charles B. Munsey, JR
Boyd Munsey
Princeton
Montcalm
U.S. S. Brownson
Great Britain
Munsey
Great Lakes
Kingsport
Tenn
Cpl
Homer O. Nash
Frank Nash
Rogers Street
15Th Army Air Force
Italy
Corporal Nash
Western Union
Navy Yard
Haynes Brothers
Q. O. Haynes
Widemouth
Therman Haynes
Camp Blanding
Pfc
Sherman L. Haynes
France
American Coal Company
Ratcliff
Lou C. Ratcliff
Bramwell Road
Dillard Ratcliff, Jr
Clyde Ratcliff
Bruce Ratcliff
Guy Ratcliff
Dillard
Air Force
England
U. S. Army Air Force
Seaman Ratcliff
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ralph R. Hager
Cora Osborne
South Avenue
War Department
Hager
Beatrice Hager
Celanese Corporation of America
Narrows
Clifford C. Hambrick
Thurman Hambrick
Route 1
Dunlop
Hambrick
Belgium
Holland
Edward A
Jiggs) Kessinger
Edna Lucille Kessinger
Kessinger
Infantry
Army
Camp Forrest
Camp Phillips
Kas
Los Angeles
Calif
Yuma
Ariz
Fort Dix
N. J
Hobert
W. Kessinger
Edna Lucado
E. H. Lucado
James Robert Howard
John ¢C. Howard
Gary
Howard
Uniontown
Lynch, Ky
Washington and Lee University
Virginia Bar Association
Fort McClellan
Ala
Fort Benning
Camp Shelby
Miss
United Supply Company
Frances A. Kearns
East National Pike
Ginbotham Leaves for Army Post in Pierre
ginbotham has departed after several months to join her husband Lieut Mat H at an army post in pierre.
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Whitley
Smithfield
Montgomery
A. Grat M. Fowen, Jr
William R. Matthews
Ann Meddaux
Ier
A. S. Hig
Ginbotham
Mat- H
Pierre
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