Ie Shima Battle Deepens Okinawa Campaign
The 77th Division commanders call Ie Shima crucial for Okinawa operations. After landing on April 16, New York crews met fanatical defense and heavy losses in one of the Pacific theater’s bloodiest actions. The Kerama Retto operations aided Okinawa with artillery support and eliminated several enemy vessels.
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Tiny Ie Shima
Okinawa
Andy
INS
George
77Th Doughboys
Kerama Retto
Kerama
Ie Shima
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Guam
Leytenpaigns
77th Division Opens Ie Shima Landing With Fierce Resistance
The 305th, 306th, and 307th regiments led landings on Ie Shima, facing caves, pillboxes, and mine fields. The 77th Division then pushed to seize Gusugu Yama, plant a flag, and move to Shuri on Okinawa, despite underestimating enemy strength and Ernie Pyle's death.
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Gordon Kimbrell
Athens
Aubrey Smith
San Antonio
Tex
Steven Ney
Dillon
S. C
Gusugu Yama
Ie Shima
Bruce
Iwo Jima
Mount
Suribachi
Ernie Pyle
le Shima
Edwin Randle
Muncie
Ind
Sear 8 Yama
Wife killer Potts to die in Colorado week of June 18
Howard Sonny Potts, 41, who killed wife Mary Potts in 1943 after a dispute over an undercooked dinner, is scheduled for execution in the Colorado gas chamber during the week of June 18. Neighbors heard two cats yowling, leading to discovery of the body in a basement grave and Potts’s confession.
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Marie D. Wilson
Canon City
Colo
Howard
Sonny” Potts
Colorado
State Penitentiary
Potts
Mary
Denver
Mary Potts
California
Ornia
Colorado Supreme Court
John C. Miian
High Point Soldier HM Meritorious Service in Italy
Private First Class Billy Hussey of High Point North Carolina serves as a truce driver with the 346th field artillery battalion service battery on the Fifth Army front in Italy. He and the unit received the Meritorious Service Unit Award for superior performance in difficult tasks, earning a combat insignia for his sleeve. Hussey is son of Mrs Mary Hussey.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Hussey
High Point
N. C
346Th Field Artillery Battalion
346Th
91St
Powder River
Mary Hussey
Private Crotts Meritoriously Serves With Fifth Army Battery
PFC Ray C Crotts of High Point North Carolina an ammunition handler in the 346th field artillery battalion service battery has been awarded the Meritorious Service Unit commendation for superior performance of duty on the Fifth Army front in Italy His mother Mrs Marge Pickett street is listed as his parent.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Ray C Crotts
High Point
N. C
346Th Field Artillery
346Th
91St
Powder River
Crofts
Marfice Aret Scee
Pickett Street
News of final defeat reaches Cpl. Newman in Italy
In Italy at an Army Air Service depot on June 21 Cpl. William R. Newman of High Point North Carolina learns of the war's final defeat. His unit the 20th depot repair squadron the Roarin 20th fought in North Africa from 1942 and took part in the August 1943 B 17 shuttle mission. The squadron later operated from an Italian base in 1944 supporting the 12th and 15th air forces and aiding Allied advances in Italy and in bombing Balkans Austria and Germany. They achieved the first rocket gun modification on Thunderbolts in the Mediterranean.
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AIR Service Command
Italy
William R. Newman
Church Street
High Point
N. C
Air Force
Cpl. Newman
North Africa
England
Germany
Africa
15Th
Italian
Balkans
Austria
Mediterranean
Soldier Ends EU Tour Receives Rest At Asheville
PFC Roland Hilliard of Route 4 High Point North Carolina has arrived at the Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station Asheville North Carolina for two weeks of rest before reassignment. He returned after 12 months in the European theater where he took part in the Normandy campaign with the 45th Field Hospital unit. He earned one ETO battle star. His wife Elva Hilliard also resides on Route 4 High Point North Carolina.
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Pfe
Roland Hilliard
High Point
N. C
Army Ground and Service Forces
Asheville
Normandy
45Th Field
E.T.O
Elva Hilliard
Route 4
High, Point, N, C
James Dewey Foust Home From Okinawa Survivors Leave
James Dewey Foust of High Point son of Mr and Mrs Dewey F Foust 606 Woodrow Avenue returned on survivors leave after his ship was shot from beneath him in early April He was among the first 1100 survivors to reach the United States from Okinawa entering service October 12 1943 and serving in the Pacific theater for over six months He wears six bronze stars for four major Atlantic engagements and two in the Pacific He graduated from the local high school in 1943.
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James Dewey Foust
Dewey F. Foust
Woodrow Avenue
High Point
Okinawa
United States
Pacific
Atlantic
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Thomasville
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