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SERIOUSLY WOUNDEDSHAMROCK. Nov. 18 (Special)— l Mr. and Mr* O. R. McVean. former Shamrock resident*, recently j' received a message from the War, Department that their son. Pvt.( Omer Russell McVean. was serious- | ly wounded in action in Holland on ! Oct. 5.The message said that Private j McVean. a paratrooper, was re-' ceiving treatment in an English hospital in Belgium. |j Private McVean received his| training at Camp Abbott. Bend. Ore., as an engineer. After finishing training there, he transferred to the paratroopers and re-1 | ceived further training at Port Benij ning. Ga., and Camp McKall N. C. Later he was assigned to the Air Borne Engineers and went over- j I seas last April. The former Sham-| rock youth landed in England about 30 days before D-Day and went into Prance with the Allied Forces His ' company was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for its part in, (that action. .. •?* ^. sThe private was one of the para- i i troopers who landed in Holland on Sept. 17. fighting there on the front lines until he was wounded Oct. 5 , His picture appeared in Life Magazine in the June 19 issue, along with an article “Echoes of World War.”
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Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 19, 1944
Page 25
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