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Veterans of Ellwood City Area in World War II
Walter Januszkiewicz of Hillcrest Avenue Ellwood City served as staff sergeant in the fire control center of the First Army 186th Field Artillery. He fought in Normandy Northern France the Ardennes Rhineland and Central Europe and ended the war with the 2nd Infantry Division in Czechoslovakia. After the war he earned an engineering degree and worked at Matthews Conveyor in Ellwood City until 1975. Arthur Patterson of 12 E Wallace Avenue served as rifleman with the 317th Infantry 80th Infantry Division landing in Normandy and wounded by a mortar shell earning the Purple Heart while crossing the Moselle. He returned to work at Shenango China then joined B&O Railroad retiring in 1979 as an engineer after 27 years. George Lamorella of 834 E Lynn Street says luck marked his time in war serving in a quartermaster laundry platoon and later infantry training before a Pacific assignment was canceled. he stayed with the quartermasters until the Battle of the Bulge and later planned to ship to the Pacific. David S. Long of Enon Valley entered Europe through Utah Beach on D plus 30 and fought in Cherbourg Le Mans and near Paris before serving in Salzburg. he returned home January 1946 then resumed work at Shenango China. William L. Morrison Jr. of 135 Englewood Avenue served as a special services officer with 9th Air Corps Service Command and ended the war as a major. after discharge he worked for General Motors in Flint and later ran Morrison Buick in New Castle retiring in 1976.