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Navy Vet Of Nine D-Days Becomes Dothan Veterans' Coordinator
Thomas J. Bedford, new veterans coordinator for the county, comes from Gordo Alabama with a Navy record spanning World War II campaigns from the Marshall Islands to Okinawa. Enlisting in 1940, he rose to lieutenant commander at 26 and served aboard the USS Epping Forest and USS Conisteo, earning multiple ribbons and a Distinguished Unit Citation. He retired in 1945, returned to college, then was recalled in 1946 before choosing a civilian post in Dothan after a Panama City vacation.
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Reuben Herring
Thomas J. Bedford
Dothan
County Superintendent of Education
Navy
Bedford
Auburn
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Gordo
Ala
Pickens County
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Manila
Adm
C. W. Lockwood
Pacific Fleet
Australia
United States
Lucile Walden
Opelika
A. B. Blount
New London
U. S
Marshall Islands
Okinawa
U. S. S. Conisteo
Panama City
Montgomery
Veterans Administration