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!
Danville’s World War II Home Front and Memorial Era
Danville shows strong wartime unity through POW camp disruptions at Smith Douglass Fertilizer plant a strict no fraternization policy and a campaign to aid the war effort. Residents collected 4000 milkweed pods for rescue operations and donated nearly 5000 pounds of clothing to refugees while Red Cross volunteers produced dressings and meals and parish drives funded bonds and Red Cross efforts. Archer Gammon posthumously earned the Medal of Honor for heroism near Bastogne in 1945 as the community memorialized 81 local service members with a Gold Star Memorial at Mountain View Cemetery dedicated August 26 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith- Douglass
Camp
Pickett
the Register
Danvillians
Danville
United States
Walter E. Barrick
Ministerial Association
Schoolfield
Europe
Virginia
Royal Tiger
Gammon
Harry Truman
Archer Gammon
Office of Price Administration
Roanoke
Red Cross
Memorial Hospital
Archer T. Gamimion
9Th Armored Infantry Battalion
Bastogne
Belgium
J. Wayne Fulton
Japan
Truman