Eisenhower dedicates D Day mural at West Point museum
Former President Eisenhower dedicates a 22 by 8 foot mural marking Omaha Beach landings at West Point. The ceremony honors the Class of 1944 and notes duty honor country. Eisenhower links WWII sacrifice to today’s Vietnam era, with guests including Gen Mark Clark and Gen J Lawton Collins.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
John
West Point
Europe
U.S. Military Academy
Eisenhower
Vietnam
Omaha Beach
William Linzee Prescott
Mexico
Tuxedo Park
N.Y
82Nd Airborne Division
Gen
Mark W. Clark
5Th Army
Italy
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Monroe Man Wins Joint Service Commendation Medal
Air Force Captain Warren F. Taylor Jr. received the Joint Service Commendation Medal from Maj. John T. Honeycutt at Sandia Air Base Albuquerque. Present were his aunt Mrs Maud L Taylor and his son Warren F Taylor II. The captain's late wife Donna Sue Guyton was the daughter of Mr and Mrs J F Guyton of Monroe.
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Air Force
Warren F. Taylor Jr
Warren F. Taylor Sr
Monroe
Maj
John T. Honeycutt
Sandia Air Base
Albuquerque
N.M
Captain Taylor
Maud L. Taylor
Warren F. Taylor II
Donna Sue Guyton
J. F. Guyton
U S Diverts Ship To Evacuate Americans In Nigeria
U S Embassy ordered the freighter African Lightning diverted to evacuate Americans from Eastern Nigeria amid a disputed move by Gowon and Ojukwu. A DC6 airlift was canceled. about 2 000 Americans, including 230 Peace Corps volunteers, faced evacuation uncertainty as flights were suspended.
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U.S
Nigeria
Lagos
Yakubu Gowon
Elbert G. Mathews
Port Harcourt
Republic of Biafra
Eastern
Gowon
Biafra
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Farrell Lines
Gabon
Liberia
Alfred Boerum
Norwalk
Conn
Glen
Havana
Peace Corps
U.S. Agency For International Development
Dantzler Rites Planned Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Artie Sims Dantzler 84 of 4420 Cypress St West Monroe will be held today at 2 p m at Claiborne Methodist Church West Monroe with Revs E W Sandel Falcon Hearne and T A Brown officiating Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery near Choudrant under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home She died Thursday morning at Glenwood Hospital after a short illness and was a member of Claiborne Methodist Church.
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Artie Sims Dantzler
Cypress St
West Monroe
Claiborne Methodist Church
E. W. Sandel
Falcon Hearne
T. A. Brown
Pleasant Grove
Choudrant
Hixon Brothers Funeral Home
Dantzler
Glenwood Hospital
The
Claiborne
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Omar N. Bradley
1St
Normandy
State Farm “Car Finance Plan
State Farm
State Farm Mutual
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Bloomington
Minors
Billy Wilhite
Jackson St
Plum and
STATE
Fanem
Chuck” Miller
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co
Madison Ave
Nonraomeny Ward
Polaroid
Swinger
Ladies
Jamaicas
Ivy
Triangle
Sliding
Montgomery Ward
Twin City
Stubbs
Roselawn
Embalmers & Funeral Directors
Charles R. Cobb
Vernon L. Parrish
Louis L. Peters
James M. Spears
Stubbs Ave
Monroe, LA
Marvin D. Spears
Ivory
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