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Veterans Honor Roll Highlights Local Servicemen Returns
Numerous Preston area service members are discharged or return home from World War II. Elmer A Sharp of Mapleton is discharged at Fort Douglas after 26 months overseas with the 146th Engineer Battalion. LeRoy Archibald Archibald, PhM 3/c, sails aboard the USS Henrico with 1,475 Navy veterans returning to the states. Robert Beesley, Eunice Beesley, and Frank S. Johnson are among others discharged at Fort Douglas or Riverside. David G. Evans and Parley N. Walton complete assignments at Ellington Field and Fort Douglas respectively. Glen W. Balls, Albert Parkinson, and other names are listed with campaigns and decorations noted. The list notes homes in Preston, Dayton, Weiser, and Smithfield among others.
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Elmer F. Sharp
Army
Ft. Douglas
Elmer A. Sharp
Mapleton
France
Germany
146Th Engineer
NVA
Weiser
LeRoy Archibald LeRoy A. Archibald
U. S. Naval Reserve
Alene H. Archibald
Dayton
Archibald
States
Henrico
Navy
Guam
Robert Beesley
Eunice D. Beesley
Eighth Air Force
Cpl. Beesley
Ogden
Frank S. Johnson
March Field
Riverside
California
Belgium
Léonard Johnson
Preston
Glen W. Balls
St. Douglas
LaVere Balls
Aleutians
106Th Infantry Division
Fern Moody
Ethel Moody
Smithfield
Utah