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J RevNeon SoldierReceives PromotionSGT, BA IX A HD J. BENTLEYA Ninth Air Force BomberBase. — A Neon, Ky., aerial engineer-gunner’ who flies with the invasion-leading Silver Streaks Marauder group in the ETO, recently promoted to the rank of sergeant, wears the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters “for meritorious achievement/*He is Sergeant Ballard J. Bentley, 23, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Bentley, of Box 243, Neon, whose promo tion from corporal to sergeant was announced recently by his squadron commander Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel C Brawner, of Pensacola, Fla.Sgt. Bentley, the husband of Mrs. Alice L. Bentley, has is, | completed 15 combat missions with the group commanded by Colonel Reginald Vance, oi San Antonio/Texas. As a member oi the combat crew of the Ninth Air Force Mau-rauder “Hells Dust Storm”, he has taken part in raids against Luftwaffe airdromes, railroads, bridges, flying bomb launching sites and other Nazi military installations in France, Belgium and Hoi land in direct support of advancing allied ground forces on the Western Front.Before the sun came out on en j historic D-Day^ the bombs ol to j the Silver Streaks hit the French beaches as the group spearheaded the invasion of b ranee with an aerial blow at Cherbourg a few minutes be* iOre initial landings by ground torees.Sgt. Bentley attended Fleming (Ky.) High School and entered the Army in April, 1943. He studied at the AAF aviation mechanics school atSeymour-Johnson Field, NC.and received his gunner'swings at Fort Myers, Fla. Twr uncles are in the armed forces: lames Franklin, with the.oast Guard in Iceland, and Yatson Franklin, an infantry ;ergeanf, in the South Pacific.AOIOFTSloc;theFillHa;ancCoi to 1a c tha wilinvCOCHPHchaMono\byV. ]torecFrcof; preinIseh 4-1 is (tioi
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Whitesburg Mountain Eagle
Whitesburg, Kentucky, US
Thu, Nov 16, 1944
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