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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1945
Page
8
Kings Mountain residents and area guests fill holiday pages with army and naval personnel visiting relatives. Names include Sgt Harold Coggins, Lt Merger, Lt Nick Moss, and many students from Salem Academy, Woman's College Greensboro, and Plonk School of Creative Arts. Families host travelers from Atlanta to New Orleans as they spend Christmas and plan returns after the holidays.
Mr and Mrs A H Patterson expect to have their daughters Mrs Johnny Smathers and Mr B C Etheridge accompanied by their husbands as dinner guests on Christmas day. Mrs Smathers has been visiting his parents in Back Bay Virginia. Joe Hord, a student at State College this year, is spending the holidays with his parents.
Army and Navy personnel including Byers Tenveneer McDaniel Falls Reynolds Kearns and Ketner are home from overseas with discharges. Master Sergeant Ketner, 31, of Morehead City, NC, recalls fighting in the war as Marines raise a flag on a makeshift banner in Japan after surrender. The Stars and Stripes then flew over the camp as Japanese forces left in a huff.
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