Army Paratrooper Raymond Akers Receives Gallantry Commendation
Raymond L. Akers, a para trooper now stationed in England, was inducted in August 1940 and trained at Fort Bragg. He earned paratrooper wings at Fort vF. Ga and served as an instructor at Fort Benning before overseas in 1943. Stationed in North Africa Sicily Ireland and Scotland, he earned a gallantry commendation for action at Arnone Italy on October 6 1943. He remains in the medical detachment and is connected to Mrs Stumpaint of Bluefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond L. Akers
England
U. S. Army
Fort Bragg
N. C
Fort Vf. Ga
Fort Benning
North Africa
Sicily
Ireland
Scotland
Arnone
Italy
Bluefield Fold
Stumpaint
Binefield
Hardy Street
Fors
L. M. Akers
Wilcoe Private Will Remember A Night In Italy
Private Rowland Moffatt and Wilcoe of the Fifth Army recalled a night in Italy during wartime. A shell burst collapsed a rear of a narrow defile but the men escaped under fire. They found two wounded Americans. Moffatt bound a tourniquet on one leg while Sutphin crawled to a medic. The midnight action became a night to remember.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Army
Italy
Rowland Moffatt
Wilcoe
Ponto
Moffat
Sutphin
William H Walters To Be Graduated From West Point
William H. Walters, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Walters of Bluefield, is among the cadets graduating from the United States Military Academy this June. A Beaver high school graduate, Walters earned an appointment from Rep. John Kee. He served as cadet lieutenant and competed in pistol and tennis during his first year and will be commissioned in the air corps. The current class has 474 members, including four West Virginians and 14 Virginians. West Point marks its 142nd birthday, founded by congress on March 16, 1802, after plans by General George Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Military Academy
William H. Walters
J. C. Walters
Bluefield
Walters
Beaver High School
West Point
John Kee
Air Corps
West
Daily Doings Of Area Men In U S Service
Lt and Mrs Whit taker return to Greenwood Mississippi with Miss Betty Stovall after an 11 day furlough visiting J C Whit taker A F P De Busk and relatives at Norton Corp Marcellus Cassidy returns to Fort Knox as an instructor after time with wife and daughter and W C Cassidy parents Randolph White North Camp Hood Texas promoted to sergeant after enlisting August 8 1943 Capt James C Smyth son of D D Smyth serves on the Italian front as a pilot on a P 47 Thunderbolt Ensign Charles R Scott and wife visit relatives on Whitethorn Street with L Feuchtenberger parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Whittaker
Betty Stovall
Greenwood
Miss
Lieutenant Whittaker
J. C. Whittaker
A. FP. de Busk
Norton
Randolph White
North Camp Hood
Texas
James C. Smyth
D. D. Smyth
Jefferson Street
Smyth
Chemical Warfare Service
Blacksburg
Army Air Forces
Area Men Honored for Sicily Assault Swim Heroism
John E Bowling of Bluefield and Charles B Fletcher of Alderson received the Navy Cross and Navy and Marine Corps Medal respectively for lifesaving swimming feats during the Sicily amphibious assault. Citations note Bowling aided stranded soldiers under heavy surf and darkness while injured, and Fletcher guided disembarkation and rescued several sailors under fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
John 8. E. Bowling
Bluefield
Charles B. Fletcher
Alderson
Secretary of the Navy
Bowling
Navy
Marine Corps
Fletcher
Frank Knox
Fifth Naval District
Norfolk
U. 8S. Naval Reserve
Wiley E. Bowling
Princeton
Mrs C H Scott noted as rect graduate and moves
Mrs C H Scott a resident of West Virginia and Abingdon Virginia is identified as a Notre Dame Corp B Franklin Shrader transfers from Camp Atterbury Indiana to Camp California. He recently visited his parents Mr and Mrs L A Shrader and friends at Brush Fork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Scott
West Virginian
Abingdon
Vargo Scott
Notre Dame
West Virginia Servicemen Earn Promotions In War Effort
The report lists multiple West Virginia service personnel earning promotions and assignments. Harry Gladden Woods Jr. completes gunnery training in Jacksonville and is promoted. Bernard L. Bryant moves from Bluefield to Missouri as base mechanic. several others from Mullens Lindside and Ballard regions receive wings, boots, or instructor roles. The exercises at Edgewood Arsenal Md mark a June 6 graduation for the 12th unit gas officers course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgewood Arsenal
James W. Wade
Maryland Avenue
Soldiers With Local Ties Enter Service And Training
Army patrol troops completed four weeks of jump training including a five jump night operation. Cpl Glenn Knodley Jr sent to Fort Monmouth for advanced photography training. Seaman First Class Miness Lovill recently arrived in Hawaii, parents notified. T/Sgt Albert Woods overseas aiding England air service. Charles Raymond Scott, Notre Dame naval reserve midshipman, commissioned as ensign. Local men in European theater railway battalions: William Pasley and Johnson Higginbotham. George H Picket Jr RFC 1 Bluefield completed gunner’s mate training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Glenn Knodley, Jr
Fort Monmouth, N. J
Miness Lawson Lovill
U. S. Navy
Hawaiian Islands
C. Lovill
Ridge Street
Lovill
Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
William C. Pasley
Bluefield
Johnson K. Higginbotham
Princeton
Pvt Morris Returns to Detroit After Training
Pvt. M. R. Morris returns to Detroit Michigan after a 12 day furlough with family. He recently completed basic training as a military police at Fort Custer Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. R. Morris
Detroit
Michigan
Morris
Fort Custer
Mich
Five In Foxhole Four Too Many
Five soldiers sheltered in a foxhole during a German shell blast recount the moment. Pvt. George Harris of Coalwood and others from Rochester New York Oakland California Chemung New York Coalwood West Virginia Pontiac Michigan describe the near miss and scattered ammunition with no injuries reported.
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FIFTH
Italy
George Harris
Coalwood
John
Rochester
N. Y
Robert Wallace
Oakland
Calif
George Decker
Cheming
W. Va
Robert Schroeder
Pontiac
Mich
Air Medal Awarded to Sgt. Douglas for Combat Mission Wins
Francis H. Douglas of Elkins, son of Mrs. F E Springer of Princeton, receives the Air Medal from an Eighth Air Force bomber in England. He is tail gunner on the ship Ten Hits and a Miss, joined the AAF in October 1942, earned gunners wings in January 1943 at Tyndall Field. The citation praises meritorious achievement on five bomber missions over occupied Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis H. Douglas
Elkins
F. E. Springer
Princeton
England
Sgt
Douglas
AAFP
Tyndall Field
Europe
United States
Paul A Sells Honor Man At Great Lakes Training Center
Paul Alexander Sells, 29, of Princeton, was graduated from recruit training on June 1 as honor man of his company at the U S naval training center in Great Lakes Illinois and was granted boot leave. Sells was elected by fellow bluejackets and selected by his company commander for military aptitude and progress. Before joining the navy he sold livestock and poultry feeds for Ralston Purina in St Louis Missouri. His wife and two sons reside in Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Alexander Sells
Henry Street
Princeton
U. S. Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Illand
Sells
Navy
Ralston Purina Company
St. Louis
Kentucky Soldier Receives Legion of Merit
Master Sgt. Leonard A. Wirtz of Camp Campbell Kentucky has been awarded the Legion of Merit Medal with Degree of Legionnaire by the President. The citation credits extraordinary fidelity and meritorious conduct, based on orders from General George Washington at Newburgh New York August 7 1872 and an act of Congress. He is the son of Mr and Mrs John W Wirtz Sr of Athens and has two brothers in the service Lt John W Wirtz Jr at Norfolk Virginia and Edward Brown Wirtz petty officer first class in the U S Navy now in the South Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Brown Wirtz
U. S. Navy
South Pacific
Bainbridge
San Diego
Calif
San Bruno
John W. Wirtz
Norfolk
U. 8
Navy
Leonard A. Wirtz
U. 8. Army
Camp Campbell, Ky
Athens
United States
Camp Campbell
George Washington
Newburgh
N. Y
Norfolk Va
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Glen C. Nye
American Red Cross Officers’ Club
Lysie W. Jersoe
Pittsburgh
American Red Cross Club
Betty John
Cincinnati
Ohio
David White
U.S. Navy
Jerry
R. B. White
Landgraff
Joseph B. Necessary
T. M. Necessary
Alberrys
U. 58. Army Engineers
Necessary
Camp Claiborne
James Peery Martin
Asberrys
Alvin H. Necessary
Kenneth W. Necessary
Harry &. Necessary
J. D. Clark
M. L. Clark
India
Camp Polk
Frank Leon
Ida Mae Perdue
Tony Leon
Jenkin Jones
Camp Howie
Tex
Army
Camp Bowie
Wilcoe Private
L. W. Chavers
J. M. Chavers
Pensacola
Fla
Washington, D. C
Frances Elizabeth Aliff
West A Street
William Walters
U. S
Charles R. Scott
Vigneg Les
L. Feuchtenberger
Whitethorn Street
Fletcher Brothers
A. J. Fletcher
Jack A. Fletcher
337Th
Eighth Air Force
Pvt
Vernon Fletcher
Northern Ireland
Quartermaster Corps
R. C. Daniels
Harry Hager
Harold Thomason
Hager
Fort Jackson
D. C
Rose Thomason
R. F. Hager
Princeton Road
Corporal Thomason
Walker Army Air Field
Kan
D. M. Thomason
Naval Reserve
Edwin R. Fletcher
LCI (S) Five
Lamar
Charleston
U. S. Naval Service
Harry Gladden Woods Jr
Jacksonville
New York
Harry G. Woods
Mullens
E. Ballad Jr
Aetna
Coffeyville
Kans
Moore Field
Ezra Ballard
Lindside
Bernard L. Bryant
M. J. Bryant
Rosecrans Field
Air Transport Command
Missouri
Thornhill
Bramwell High School
Pocahontas Puel Company
McComas
M. R. Bryant
Armed Forces
Harry Farris
O. J. Farris
Ballard
Albert Hazelwood
Farnie Hazelwood
Pahland
Army Patratroops
Albert D. Woods
Gileness Woods
Keystone
Air Service Command
Gilliam Coal Company
Gilliam
Charles Raymond Scott
Charles H. Scott
Betty Jane Feuchtenberger
U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School
University of Notre Dame
Ind
U. S. Naval Reserve
George Harold Picket, Jr
RFC No
Urbine
A. Bailey
Springton
Anzio
Bailey
Robert A. Lynch
Margaret Lynch
T. H. Lynch
Geiger Field
Spokane
Wash
Air Forces Engin
Lynch
Jefferson Barracks
Camp Sibert
Ala
Air
Paul A. Sells
Great Lakes Training Center
Frank Little
Chilhowie
North Tazewell
Littles
Put
Id Powers
8. C
E. B. Little
Quonset Point
R. I
Raymond Little
Camp Swift
Tazewell High School
Perdue University
Warden
L. L. Way
Lemuel T. Warden
Camp Pickett
Southwest Pacific
Rebecca Hubbard
Ernest Warden
Lemuel L. Warden
Benjamin Harold Wirtz
Beulah Wirtz
Straley Avenue
James Wesley Harmon
Leonard Harmon
Norfolk, Va
William Dudley Scott, Jr
W. D. Scott
Pocahontas
Manhattan
Brooklyn
U.S. Coast Guard
Curtis Bay
Lancee
Dorothy Dukes
Leonard Wirtz
Legion
Kentucky
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