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WELLSBORO, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER \% UW4D | S/Sgt. W. Shumway Awarded Bronze Star ^QJ!N0’ !QUiIN EUROPEAN THEATRE OF WARS/Set Waldo E Shumwaj has been presented a brvnzc sUr by G*n- ttabert V9. Grow, Cmdr of (he 6th Armored Dinsion for refusing to be evacuated when injured during a tierce attack and then later taking over the unit when his officer was also injured and evacuated. Shumway is seen looking at his broken goggles and the hole in his crash helmet caused by a shell fragment that cot his nghl temple, somewhere u France.S/Sgt. Sbumway. 29, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Shumway and was a former manager of Market Basket here and later conducted a Market Basket store at Alfred. N Y He entered semce in March. 1942 and has been overseas since last March.A letter received yesterday by his parrots gave them their first neus or his injury, which he claimed has lolly healedCom I Works j to sigr man Chalrn a day : the goMorr. I Profess IcanvoA factory Mil CJ contnto Thus the A/ staged Show proem to the paign 'for Ih and p‘ ibert st| TernNo\ 2 benefit share I WellstWMf, REQUESTS I HFRITAfiR ftF
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Wellsboro Gazette
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1944
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