At War At Home: WWII

AT WAR H AT HOME

WORLD WAR II

stories of sacrifice and commitment from the pages of the

AT WAR H AT HOME

WORLD WAR II from the pages of the Omaha world -herald

AT WAR H AT HOME

WORLD WAR II

We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

EDITOR

— PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Dan Sullivan

From an address to White House Correspondents’ Association, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 1943

DESIGNER Christine Zueck

PHOTO IMAGING JOLENE MCHUGH

EXECUTIVE EDITOR Mike Reilly

PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER Terry Kroeger

ON THE COVER: “The Homecoming”: The WorldHerald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Lt. Col. Robert Moore’s reunion with his family at the Villisca, Iowa, train depot in 1943.

When America woke up to Pearl Harbor and went to work defending freedom, The WorldHerald went to work, too.

Throughout World War II and for six-plus decades afterward, generations of World-Herald journalists have chronicled the service and sacrifice of those who fought the Axis abroad and aided the war effort at home.

World War II was an important period in the newspaper’s history. It won two war-related Pulitzer Prizes, including a public service award for starting scrap metal drives to combat a dangerous shortage of metal for armaments.

During the war, the newspaper sent correspondents to both Europe and the Pacific to find Mike Reilly Nebraskans and Iowans and tell their stories, to show how they fought and lived. Those assignments Executive Editor of the began a tradition of overseas war coverage that has endured through Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Omaha World-Herald In the decades since World War II, The World-Herald has interviewed thousands of veterans and civilians from that momentous era. Some told their stories willingly, some haltingly and some only after decades had passed. Those who talked of their war experiences spoke for the many who could not, so future generations would not forget.

The very best of 70 years of coverage follows in these pages, edited and presented together for the first time.

The book is a treasure trove of beautifully restored World-Herald photographs — some poignant, some heartwarming, some disturbing.

The book is a thousand stories of ordinary people — men and women of good will — united to accomplish extraordinary feats under difficult circumstances.

The book is one story of one remarkable generation.

ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE: Clarence Christensen of Valparaiso, Neb., and other Midlands veterans salute during the playing of taps at the National World War II Memorial. They were in Washington as part of the Honor Flights program in 2008.

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A new B-17 bomber drew a crowd to Omaha’s Municipal Airport, now Eppley Airfield, in July 1941.

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Foreword

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Pearl Harbor

by David Hendee The day the war came to America

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The darkest days

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Answering the call

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Fighting back

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The common cause

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Starting a new job

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Lifting spirits

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The war comes home

Grim news in the wake of Pearl Harbor Summoning courage against a formidable enemy

A glimpse of hope from Doolittle’s Raiders Pitching in with scrap metal and rationing Tapping a willing workforce

Boosting the morale of men and women in uniform Making way for the military

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Letters

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‘We regret to inform . . .’

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Turning the tide

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D-Day

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Lawrence Youngman in Europe

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Final push to Germany

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The horror revealed

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V-E Day

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Final push to Japan

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Bill Billotte in the Pacific

The World-Herald on the other side of the globe

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Apocalyptic blasts that end the war

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The end at last

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It’s been a long, long time

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Sentimental journeys

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‘The Homecoming’

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Credits and indexes

Spanning the miles with the power of the written word The news everyone dreaded

Crucial victories on the ground and in the air

A battle for the ages Crossing France with The World-Herald

A retreating but still dangerous enemy

The Nazis’ stain on humanity

First half of the job finished Costly victories at Iwo Jima and Okinawa

An eruption of joy Welcoming home those who served

Memories and emotions the years could not erase

Postscript to a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo

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Pearl Harbor “Air raid, pearl harbor! this is no drill!�

Loudspeakers all over the Hawaiian island of Oahu blared similar messages that sleepy Sunday morning of Dec. 7, 1941. By then most people on the island knew it was not a drill. The bombs were real, the torpedoes were real, and soon, America would really be at war.

The crew of a small boat rescues a sailor from the USS West Virginia.

The U.S. Navy photograph was color-tinted.

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The darkest days After 24 hours of savage hand-to-hand combat, about 11,600 U.S. and Filipino soldiers were forced to surrender in 1942 to overwhelming Japanese forces on the Philippine island of Corregidor. H Edward Hoffman of Omaha, an Army corporal at the time, recalled seeing Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright raise the white flag of surrender that night, about a month after the Japanese had captured the Bataan Peninsula. H Like those captured on the peninsula, the Corregidor prisoners were forced to march to a prison camp.

“It was hell,” Hoffman said. “They beat us up along the way, they didn’t feed us much to eat, and they threatened to kill us.”

American Legion members in Taylor, Neb., salute the flag-draped casket of Pvt. Clive John Raish, who was killed in 1942 during training to head overseas. Raish, 20, had enlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hundreds stood outside the Evangelical Church to hear the sermon through loudspeakers.

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Answering the call MORE GRIM NEWS followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, from Japan’s string of victories in the Pacific to Germany’s tightening stranglehold on Europe. H A 1945 World-Herald editorial looked back at the uncertainty of the war’s early days and observed, “Many of us thought the blackness of doom was closing over our civilization.” Fear was accompanied by a dread of the hardships lying ahead. H Nan Viergutz Rickey, a 1942 Benson High graduate, recalled a New Year’s Eve dance that she and some classmates attended as 1941 gave way to 1942. With the attack on Pearl Harbor only weeks behind them, it was certain that many of the young men would head for war. “We knew they were leaving,” she said. H Were Americans ready to answer their nation’s call to serve and to sacrifice? Sixty-thousand Nebraskans and Iowans gave their answer at the April 1942 Army Day parade in downtown Omaha.

Columns of the 4th Cavalry ride down Farnam Street during the Army Day parade of 1942. The view is west from near 17th Street.

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Fighting back President Roosevelt believed it was crucial to strike Japan, which Japanese warlords had said was protected by a “divine wind.” H On Feb. 1, 1942, Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle went to an airfield near Columbia, S.C., looking for volunteers for a secret and perilous mission. Two-and-a-half months later, 80 men took on the challenge. H Their bold raid on Tokyo didn’t do all that much physical damage, but it was a boost to U.S. morale. H “People talk about sacrifice and commitment,” said Bob Joyce, son of Doolittle Raider Richard O. Joyce.

“For people in my generation, life has been pretty comfortable.

I’ve never been in the situation where I’ve had to make the kind of sacrifices and commitment those guys made.”

Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle (in dark cap at far left) gathers his raiders together in 1942. 1st Lt. Richard O. Joyce of Lincoln is highlighted to the right of Doolittle.

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The common cause Guns, generals and Gis fought the battles, but World War II was won on the homefront. The shooting and bombing were thousands of miles away, yet American civilians — Nebraskans and Iowans among them — were on the front lines producing arms and food that tipped the balance on the battlefield.

It was the common cause. H Midlanders combed the corners of their counties for anything that could be turned into armaments — old flatirons and pianos, discarded overshoes and historic relics of previous wars. Families planted “victory gardens” to produce their own vegetables. Shoppers learned to decipher the alphabet of gasoline stamps and the red and blue ration stamps. H The slogan of the time was, “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”

Nearly 5,000 people lined the streets of Plattsmouth in 1942 for a “Skrap Karnival” parade.

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Starting a new job Hildreth Madsen said she used to think a lot about her brothers as she punched rivets into the bellies of the B-29 bombers made at a plant south of Bellevue. H Madsen’s brothers were both serving in the U.S. Navy, one on a submarine and the other on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.

The lives of servicemen, possibly one of her brothers, were going to depend on some of the planes Madsen helped build at the Martin Bomber Plant. H “I felt like every rivet I put in had better be done right,” she said.

“I felt very patriotic to do my job.”

Stacks of 500-pound bombs await shipment from the Nebraska Ordnance Plant at Mead.

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Lifting spirits Ten days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, North Platte residents heard that their own Company D of the Nebraska National Guard would pass through the city by train en route to the West Coast. H About 500 residents rushed to the Union Pacific Railroad station with cookies, candy, cake and cigarettes. This Company D turned out to be from Kansas, but the unit was still welcomed with gifts. H The experience gave one woman in the crowd an idea. Rae Wilson arranged for people in the city to start meeting all of the trains, beginning on Christmas Day 1941. H Terry Terranova of Brecksville, Ohio, recalled stopping at the canteen as an Army infantryman. “After spending a night in the Chicago stockyards on the troop train, stranded between a train of cattle and another one of pigs, we were in pretty sad shape. When the train pulled into North Platte it was a real blessing . . . because we got off, and there was this whole troop of beautiful women dressed in prairie skirts and whatnot, and they were carrying these baskets loaded with candy, cigarettes and chewing gum. I was just so impressed with that whole experience I never forgot it.”

Columbian Elementary School students pass out food to servicemen at Union Station in Omaha in 1943. The children brought 372 hard-boiled eggs and 1,112 homemade cookies after reading in The World-Herald that donations had dropped.

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The war comes home The Army Air Base in Alliance, Neb., trained between 12,000 and 15,000 troops at a time from 1943 through the end of the war in 1945.

“In that century, it was about the biggest thing that happened to Alliance,” said Gloria Clark, a former Alliance resident who researched the base history.

At the time, the population of Alliance was about 6,600 people, Clark said, so the influx of 5,000 construction workers and then the trainees had a huge influence. H When the base was dedicated, an estimated 66,000 people attended a program that included a re-enactment of the recent invasion of Sicily.

One witness said the drop of dozens of paratroopers during the event looked like “popcorn falling from the sky.” H Such dedication ceremonies were rare during wartime, according to Clark, for fear of providing information to the enemy.

But military officials apparently thought that Nebraska’s Panhandle was far enough from either coast and invited Life and Time photographers to document the event.

Creighton University ended its football program during the war, one of countless disruptions of everyday life. The 1942 Army War Show at the stadium featured a display of the latest military equipment.

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Letters Kathryn Brott was 3½ years old when a letter from her father, a young surgeon serving on the front lines of World War II, arrived in the family mailbox in Beatrice. She was too young to comprehend its meaning, too young to even read the words. Her mother read them. H “March 4, 1943. Dear Kathryn, at this time your father is many miles away, yes even a thousand or more away and I believe you might appreciate a few lines for future reference in case I should not return.” Capt. Clarence Brott told his daughter to obey her mother, Viola, and above all else, believe in God in the event he became a casualty of war.

“It has been impossible for your father to provide you and your mother with ample financial means as he desired, but by you cooperating with your mother and being thrifty, I believe you shall not suffer.” H Years later, Kathryn Brott Higgins of Lincoln could still hear the voice of her father, who died in 1988, when she read his letter. H “He was just a very special person.

And there were just so many others,” she said.

Fireman 2nd class Lyman Hewitt of Omaha, stationed in the Philippines in 1945, writes a letter to his wife.

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‘We regret to inform . . .’

Wherever Gayhart Gerling went in life, his best friend Melvin Schmuecker was sure to be there. The two grew up on farms north of Emerson, Neb., and attended a one-room school together. In their late teen years, they drove into town together on Saturday nights in an old Model A Ford.

In 1944, when both were drafted into World War II, they shared the rigors of boot camp together. After a Christmas furlough at home, they both shipped out for Europe. H A man at the train depot with the unenviable task of delivering War Department notices called on both the Schmuecker and Gerling families within a week of each other in February 1945. When he arrived at the Schmuecker home, he found only Melvin’s mother and refused to leave the telegram. Melvin’s father went later to the depot office to claim it. “When he came back, he was crying,” Marge Cadwallader, Melvin’s sister, recalled in 1995.

“I think he knew what it was before he went there.” H Days later, as planning was under way for Schmuecker’s memorial service, the depot messenger paid a visit to the Gerlings. “It was a rainy, rainy day and it was milking time,” said Gerling’s sister, Helen Wentworth. “My parents just looked at him, and they knew what he was bringing.”

Col. Robert Moore, in uniform, returned to a hero’s welcome in Villisca, Iowa, in 1943. But shortly after he arrived at the train station, he met with Montgomery County Sheriff Frank Miller, whose son Wes Miller was the first soldier from Moore’s company to die in North Africa.

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Turning the tide Months before a single Allied soldier landed on France’s Normandy coast during the D-Day invasion, communities throughout England were coping with an invasion of their own. H Thousands of American soldiers and their war-fighting equipment took towns and villages by storm, as they camped in nearby fields and moved in with local residents. H Nelly Ponting’s cozy brick cottage in the village of Breamore in southern England served as home to her, her husband, her baby son and her mother-in-law and father-in-law. But when asked, she squeezed out additional room so that three Allied soldiers would have a place to sleep. H “It was our duty,” Ponting said. “We had some fun, and we made the most of it. You should have seen my parlor at night.”

Soldiers of the 134th Infantry Regiment, originally a unit of the Nebraska National Guard, march through St. Ives in southwestern England in preparation for shipping out to France.

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D-Day More than 10,000 Allied soldiers — including more than 6,600 Americans — were dead or wounded on France’s Normandy coast by the end of the day on June 6, 1944. H Roger McCarthy said he survived the landing on Omaha Beach by the grace of God. “I was 20, on the beach, and I had no idea what we were getting into,” the Omahan recalled. “It was a shock to see the death. You hear the term ‘combat.’ But what the heck is that?

You don’t know. Even before the landing craft got to the beach, there was complete confusion. The impression was that somebody screwed this up — this isn’t how it was supposed to be.”

American Soldiers wade ashore at Omaha Beach after disembarking from a Higgins boat under heavy gunfire from German coastal defense forces.

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World-Herald correspondent Lawrence Youngman and his driver, Pfc. Johnny Robidoux of Falls City, Neb. The partially obscurred sign on the Jeep says, “YE OMAHA BUGLE,” to announce that a newspaperman was on board.

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Lawrence Youngman in Europe World-Herald war corresponDent Lawrence Youngman arrived in London on June 5, 1944. The next morning the elevator operator at the Savoy Hotel told him: “The invasion has begun.” D-Day had arrived. H The newspaper said it sent Youngman overseas “for the express purpose of reporting home about all the Nebraska and western Iowa boys he can find.” Much of his coverage involved the 134th Infantry Regiment, which had been a Nebraska National Guard regiment when called into federal service in 1940 and was still about 25 percent Nebraska boys in 1944. H Youngman found the 134th training in England and joined the soldiers after they arrived in France about a month after D-Day. H The unit was commanded in Europe by Col. Butler B. Miltonberger, a former postal employee from North Platte. “He was an outstanding colonel, and his regiment was an excellent one,” recalled Youngman, who was 39 when he took the assignment. H The World-Herald correspondent later was with American forces when they entered Paris — “The greatest moment of my professional life,” he said. H Youngman was forced to come back in December 1944 because of serious eye problems.

“Lawrence Youngman, World-Herald war correspondent now in London, was the last American newsman to get to London ahead of the invasion, according to the War Department.”

— World-Herald of July 7, 1944

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Final push to Germany Bleeding from the face and leg as his burning bomber fell fast toward German soil, tailgunner Wendell Fetters tried to jump. But he was stuck. It was Dec. 23, 1944, a week into the Battle of the Bulge, Germany’s last-ditch effort of World War II. “The leg strap of my parachute was caught on the gun sight,” Fetters said. “I was banging against the side of the fuselage, trying to get free.

I finally bent the gun sight.” H The Allies had sent 32 B-26 Marauders to bomb a bridge at Ahrweiler in western Germany, and 16 were shot down. H Sgt. Fetters, who grew up near Indianola, Iowa, broke his ankle when he landed in the fork of a tree, and wandered for two sub-zero days before he was captured.

His reception riding through a German town was as bitter as the cold.

“I was scared,” he recalled. “But I don’t blame the old ladies who spat on us, or the kid about 12 who hit me with a two-by-four. It wasn’t their fault.

They didn’t start the war. Neither did I.”

Soldiers of the 134th Infantry Regiment, formerly a Nebraska National Guard unit, were a common sight in the streets of Luxembourg in the fall of 1944. But in December, German forces poured through the tiny nation and into Belgium in what was to be known as the Battle of the Bulge.

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The horror revealed The memory was seared in Rachel Rosenberg’s memory, as indelible as the “A-15254’’ identification number the Nazis tattooed on her left forearm. H As she and her younger brother milled among other gaunt-faced Jews in the yard at Auschwitz, the SS soldiers came to take him away.

The boy she had protected for months like her own child would take his last breath that day in the gas chamber. H “I see him walking away from me, oh, what a gorgeous child,’’ she recalled, covering both eyes with her hands.

“This is my biggest hurt, as long as I live. I will never forget. Never.’’

Elmer Chapp of Falls City, Neb., photographed prisoners at the camp at Dachau, Germany, waiting to be released by Allied soldiers.

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V-E Day Within minutes after Nazi Germany signed the surrender documents at the famous “little red schoolhouse” in Reims, France, a young U.S. Army captain did two unusual things. H In the Allied war room where the documents had been signed, the 27-year-old captain checked to see whether anyone was looking. With a penknife, he then cut a 3-inch strip of wood from the table as a souvenir of history. The table still was set up with more than a dozen chairs, and the captain sat down in each of the chairs.

“I wanted to make sure I could say I sat in the chairs where the surrender was signed,” Allan Pickett of Papillion recalled in 1995. H His reaction to word that the war in Europe was over? “There were no handsprings, and there was no jumping for joy,” he said. “It sounds strange to say that, but there was no celebration. Just a profound silence.”

On May 8, 1945, 8-year-old John Radicia hawked American flags and copies of The World-Herald announcing the end of the war in Europe. Later, he would donate his earnings from the flag sales to the Red Cross in honor of his brother Pvt. Harold Radicia, who died in 1944 at age 19 while serving his country. John Radicia, his brother Joe, and their father, Joe Sr., before them, sold magazines, newspapers and racing sheets and swapped stories and opinions on the corner of 16th and Farnam Streets from 1908 until the brothers closed shop in December 1996.

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Final push to Japan John Dickinson, a Marine veteran who had made earlier invasion landings at Saipan and Tinian, recalled the day the U.S. flag first appeared atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima — Feb. 23, 1945. However, the fighting on the island was so intense that he couldn’t remember anything else that happened until March 8. H That was the day Dickinson and a friend came under sniper fire while in a foxhole. “He ran the wrong way, and I ran the right way,’’ said Dickinson, of Omaha. “He got shot up.’’ H Dickinson’s regiment arrived at Iwo Jima aboard three ships. It left the island on one ship.

Staff Sgt. Robert Perkins of Taylor, Neb., wounded in action twice in the Philippines, had rejoined the 152nd Infantry Regiment in July of 1945.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Day That Never Was. That phrase was the headline of a World-Herald editorial on Nov. 1, 1945 — the day that the U.S. invasion of Japan was to have begun. H American intelligence had estimated 1 million U.S. casualties by the fall of 1946 in the invasion of Japan, and many more among Japanese.

Because the war ended after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the invasion of the Japanese islands never came about.

H By comparison to what might have been, the news of Nov. 1 that year was relatively uneventful: Halloween pranks, debate on an anti-strike bill in Congress, plans for an income tax reduction, Jimmy Durante making an impression of his famous schnoz in the sidewalk in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater. H The best news was that the troops were starting to come home, not having faced this most horrible battle. “From our post-surrender knowledge of Japan,” the editorial said, “we know that the battle would have been tougher probably than the Normandy invasion.”

Two residents of Hiroshima walk along a path cleared through the destruction from the Aug. 6, 1945, detonation of the first atomic bomb.

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It’s been a long, long time Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McNeely of Table Rock, Neb., knew the 35th Division was back, and they had been meeting all the trains for the past three days. H It was a little early for the 10:40 p.m. train Friday night when they reached the Burlington Station. They went across the street to the Reno Inn for a sandwich.

H A moment later, Joseph McNeely glanced up from the booth to see a familiar face.

“Why, why, it’s Howard,” he said. Mrs. McNeely swiftly rose to kiss her son.

— The World-Herald, Sept. 16, 1945

Pvt. Howard McNeely gets a kiss from his mother and a handshake from his father as he returns to his hometown of Table Rock, Neb. At right is Howard’s sister, Mrs. Kenneth Coolen.

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Sentimental journeys Claudio Orsi bravely battled enemy planes as a young tail gunner on a B-24 bomber during World War II. H But the South Omaha man found his eyes watering in 2008 as he approached the national memorial that honors him and the millions of others who served during the war. Orsi was among about 1,500 World War II veterans from Nebraska and western Iowa who traveled to Washington on Honor Flights in 2008 and 2009. H Preparations for the trip brought back some unpleasant memories for him. “I had one of my bad-mission dreams,” he said. “You never forget about the bad ones.” H But as he walked away from the National World War II Memorial, his thoughts were on the guys he flew with in the war. Of the 14 who served in his crew, he was the only one still living. “This is for my buddies,” he said.

A moment alone at Arlington National Cemetery.

Timothy Terry of Columbus found some time on his own in the Washington area, which he visited with other veterans as part of the Honor Flights program.

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AT WAR H AT HOME index of individuals Ackerman, Bob 33 Adams, Mary Jeanne Larkin 57 Adams, Paul 143 Agee, Cecil 196 Akins, Arthur 243 Albanese, Gene 33 Alterkruse, H.C. 177 Amgwert, Burton 9 Anders, Dallas 101 Anderson, Bob 323 Anderson, Caroline 177 Anderson, Kendall 138 Anderson, Myrtle 107 Anderson, R.J. 202 Anderson, Victor 271 Anderson, Vincent 82, 83 Andreas, Paul 32 Araujo, Paul 93 Arenas, Leonard 322 Arp, Dorothy 61 Artz, Doris 59 Aschenbrenner, John 309 Asher, L.D. 185, 193 Ashford, John D. 138, 158 Atobee, Viola 104 Aust, Alden 316 Azriel, Aryeh 221 Baade, Paul W. 170, 171, 200 Baker, Vernon J. 137 Balenti, Mrs. J.W. 60 Bant, Joe 196 Barney, Tex 291 Bartle, Clifford A. 188 Bartos, Rita 127 Bastin, Margaret 88 Bataillon, Frank 232 Bauwens, Gene 263 Beck, Ray 271 Beckenhauer, Paul W. 319 Becker, Ed 145 Becker, Edward A. 32 Beckstrom, Dwight 262 Beckstrom, Gerald 255 Bednarek, Janet Daly 66 Benash, Shirley 59 Benesch, George O. 213 Bernard, Barbara 86 Bernard, Shirley 86 Beveridge, James R. 210 Bickel, Blanche B. 107 Billotte, Bill 246, 247, 248, 324, 325 Binder, Glenn 141 Bitney, Marshall C. 52 Bitzig, Fred 157 Bivens, George 107 Blackstone, Ruth 104 Blakely, Erma E. 60 Blatchford, Mary Ellen 63 Blomquist, Dorothy 69 Blue, Janet "Jan" 78 Blue, Wayne 78, 149 Boatsman, Alford C. 171, 190 Bolton, Tom 135 Bossant, Pierre 229 Botsch, Walter J. 111 Boucher, Joel 61 Boyd, Robert J. 237 Boylan, Mike 339 Bradley, Elmer 275 Bradley, Omar 162 Brehm, Sam Jr. 254 Brietzke, Raymond 302 Briley, Ernest 276 Briley, Robert 298 Britton, Joe 141 Brooks, Bill 41 Brott, Clarence 113 Brott, Kathryn 113 Broughton, Marjorie 106 Brown, Albert 19 Brown, Ethric 73 Brown, Norman 22 Brown, Ray 270 Bryant, Harold M. 177 Bryson, Lois 125 Buckley, Damon 178 Buecker, Tom, 30, 102 Buglewicz, George 229 Bull, Ervin 302 Bunker, Earle "Buddy" 331, 332 Buresh, Edward 196 Burkland, Dorothy 74 Butts, Mary 106 Cadwallader, Marge 123 Callaway, Elizabeth 54 Cambler, John W. 274 Campbell, Eula Wickersham 79 Campbell, John 193 Canning, Jim 276, 277 Cantral, Wylma 82 Carlson, Glenn 135 Carlson, Kenneth 213 Carter, Evelyn McBride 89 Carter, Herb 22 Carter, Marylu 106 Cashier, Jean 82 Casperson, James T. 137 Cassity, Fran Maziuk 55 Cather, Robert 265 Chadwick, Charles 273 Chadwick, Delbert 259 Chadwick, Richard 119 Chaloupka, Lucille 178 Chapp, Elmer 215, 224, 225

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Chatt, Robert 39 Chattfield, Don 59 Chewning, Walter Jr. 142 Christensen, Clarence i Christofferson, Merle 271 Ciecior, Davida Rose 101 Ciecior, Joe 100, 101 Ciecior, Lucy Ann 101 Claflin, Howard 172 Clarence, Bill 291 Clark, Gloria 95 Clark, Kelly W. 196 Cochran, Delores 53 Cohn, Ed 164 Comstock, Ben 23 Connell, Robert Earl 111 Cool, Faye Tanner 63 Coolen, Mrs. Kenneth 311 Cooper, William 14 Corning, H.M. 52 Coufal, Ernest 268 Covi, Louis 271 Cowan, J. Harold 332, 336 Craig, Dan E. 173 Crail, Chester B. 34 Cramer, Ervin 158 Crane, Howard 196 Crider, Jean 172 Crofoot, Julie 126, 144 Crofoot, Michael 126, 144 Crosby, Bing 201 Crosby, LaVon 68 Crowley, Morris 196 Croxdale, Michael cover, 331, 332 Cuda, Harry H. 144 Cullison, Anna May 55 Cunningham, Robert G. 110 Curry, Gaylen L. 184 Czerwinski, Theodore 11 Dalton, Mickey 59 Daly, Corinne 32 Danahey, Donald 290 Daniell, Dean E. 236 Daniels, Marjorie "Winnie" 18 David, Virgil 280 Davis, James Martin 297 Davis, Kenneth 23 Deeths, Lenore 120 DeFreece, Morris 268 De Gaulle, Charles 182 Degenhardt, Max 291 Denham, Geraldine 104 Dewey, Gerald 177 Dickinson, John 235, 236, 322 Diederich, Cyril 254 Dietrich, Marlene 201 DiGiacomo, Angelo 49 Dinkelman, Mac 196 Dinovo, Frank 118 Dinovo, Mary 118 Dixon, Gifford Jr. 288, 289 Dodds, Michael 147 Dohse, Kenneth 252 Doncheski, Dorothy 114 Doncheski, Henry 114 Doolittle, James H. 36, 37, 39, 40 Doorly, Henry 48 Dotson, Doris 84 Douda, Agnes 56 Douda, Jerry 56 Douda, Sidney 56 Downing, Edward 110 Doyle, Larry 19 Dragoo, Donald 323 Drees, Ray 98 Droge, Lyle 232 Dumdei, Janet Conrad 59 Duncan, Mary 73 Earl, Richard D. 35 Early, J.J. 87 Eckhardt, Carl 173 Edgar, Charles E. 173, 188 Edward, Mrs. C.V. 49 Edwards, Betty 31 Egenberger, John 281 Eggen, Ray G. 60 Ehlers, Melvin 271 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 170, 171, 173 Elder, Eugene 147 Elias, Rev. Woodrow J. 255 Elmore, Kenneth 196 Emmert, Max 266 Engel, Donald J. 203 Epstein, Eddie 251 Epstein, Sam 49 Eshleman, Lawrence W. 199 Eskew, Viela June Fleming 329 Eyler, Bob 162 Eyler, Gayle 160 Eyler, Jim 161, 162 Falter, John 90 Fattic, Grover R. Jr. 266 Faudel, Lawrence 249 Feld, E.L. 189 Fernhaber, Edgar P. 147 Ferris, Edward Lee 294 Fetters, Wendell 205 Field, Joseph J. 174 Fischer, Lloyd 299 Fisher, Mae 33 Fitzmaurice, Donald E. 38 Flanagan, Rev. Edward 20 Flynn, Ed 76

Foster, C.D. 206 Fountain, Joe 136 Fowler, Laurie 326, 327 Fowler, Mike, 326, 327 Frank, Elvin 303 Frerichs, Edith Berg 59 Friedel, Joseph H. 192 Friedman, Mania 220 Fritz, Joel 114 Fritz, Vernelle 114 Fulton, Bob 144 Galley, Harold B. 117 Galus, Mildred R. 60 Garber, Eldon 322 Gaughran, Larry 152, 153 Gaule, John 115 Gaule, Margaret 115 Gauthiere, Paul 134 Gehlsen, Jacob "Jake" 11 Geier, Lee 34 Geiken, Clifford 173, 188 Genrich, Herman J. 203 Gentleman, Bill 291 Gerling, Gayhart 123 Geyza, Beverly M. Woodring 87 Gibbs, Don 301 Gibbs, Walter 301 Gift, Edith Foy 71 Gilbert, S. Edward 53 Gilchrist, Gene 200 Giles, Everett 264 Gill, Clair 279, 302 Gillette, Richard W. 179 Gilmore, Wayne 199 Givan, Carolyn Galley 117 Glaubius, Irene 60 Glees, Bess Marie 54 Glines, Carroll V. 243 Godios, Guy 237 Goodenkauf, Arley 145, 156 Goodenkauf, Marian 20, 144 Goolsby, Merlyn 201 Grady, John 207 Grant, Frances Johnston 14 Grass, Dean 196 Grasso, Carmen 73 Gray, Duane Stevens 220 Green, Dean 262 Green, Milo 334, 335 Greenland, Floyd L. 173 Greenlief, Francis 193 Grinsted, Albert H. 176 Grossman, Miriam Golomb 222 Grote, Herb 135 Grote, Larry 135 Grote, Mary 75 Grote, Viola 67 Gryson, Eugene 201 Gude, Gerald 29 Guffey, James 106 Guinan, Warren 254 Gulizia, Sam 49 Gusak, Theodore 262 Guthrie, Ed 10 Guy, Vernon 255 Haas, Donald 9 Hagerbaumer, Wayne 11 Hahn, Shorty 296 Haley, Wilhelmine 258 Hall, Bill 52 Hall, Maurice "Mauri" 6 Hallstrom, Robert 160 Hallstrom, Thomas 297 Halvorsen, Forrest 33 Hancock, Bonnie Jean 86 Hancock, Mary Finn 127 Hansen, Dale 242 Hansen, Don 242 Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Peter 242 Harder, Dale 158 Hardy, Mrs. John C. 53 Harms, Adrienne 85 Harnly, D.E. 173 Harris, Bill 185 Harris, Shirley 62 Harsh, Darrald B. 173 Harter, Lyle 229 Harvey, Helen 85 Hastert, Chick 74 Hayes, Charles 264 Haynes, Esther 78 Haynes, Rowland 318 Haynes, Roy 165 Hays, Alvin 244 Haze, Paul 307 Headley, Richard 136 Hedges, Frank 25 Hedman, Lorraine L. 93 Heffelfinger, Harlan 191 Hefner, Elroy 299 Heldenbrand, Clyde 196 Helmhout, Paul 196 Henry, Grace 60 Herdzina, Georgia 88 Herdzina, Joe 88 Herrick, Harlan 244 Hershner, Ivan Raymond Jr. 177 Herskind, Harold 272 Hess, Elaine 86 Hewitt, Lyman 112 Hickey, Mrs. James 49 Higgins, Andrew Jackson 163 Higgins, Betty J. Porter 109 Higgins, Kathryn Brott 113

Hill, Gilbert 129 Hill, June 106 Hill, Sedgefield D. 135 Himmelsehr, George 200 Hinds, Jerome 272 Hines, William H. 179 Hoagland, William 172 Hoffman, Charles J. 202 Hoffman, Edward 17 Holcomb, K.A. 177 Hood, Herman 172 Hoops, Vernon 128 Hoschek, Paul 272 Hotz, Don R. 119 Houston, Jeanne C. 93 Hrdy, Gene 261 Hruska, Victor 282 Huebner, Lorene 83 Huettelmaier, Virginia R. Baker 111 Hughes, Bud 119 Hughes, Francis 119 Hughes, Noel D. 174 Hultman, Paul 158 Hulub, Joseph 340 Hunt, Genevieve L. Jens 62 Hurst, Robert 66 Inman, Ruth 300 Irons, Carl 265 Isaacson, Fenton 22 Italia, Sam 42 Jacobs, Ellis 344 Jaksha, Ed 229 James, Patricia Hotchkiss 105 Janike, Ed 77 Jarosik, Bernard 340 Jensen, Glen 269 Jensen, Guelda Shirley 61 Jensen, Mrs. Harry 87 Jepsen, Fred 55 Jewell, Daniel D. 200 Jirsak, Jim 111 Jodlowski, Louis T. 329 Johnson, Albert Jr. 267 Johnson, Aloha 83 Johnson, Byron M. iv, 142 Johnson, L.L. "Swede" 156 Johnson, Lucille M. 177 Johnson, Margaret 317 Johnson, Myron 201 Johnson, Ray 88 Johnson, Raymond "Red" 265 Johnson, Reuben 196 Jones, Lucille 106 Jones, Melvin 296 Jones, Paul 255 Joyce, Bob 37, 40 Joyce, Richard O. 36, 37, 38, 40 Joyce, Todd 40 Kahn, Guinter, 223 Kaiser, John P. 45 Kalvelage, Alfons A. 195 Kammerer, Ernest 201 Karp, Bea 223 Kaufmann, David 223 Kawamoto, Mits 109 Keane, John 177 Kelley, Eugene 288 Kelly, Charles 52 Kenealy, Shirley 28 Kessler, Bill 102 Kiddoo, Ed 127 Kielion, Mike 193 Kilborn, Milton 299 Kinart, Keith 272 Kincaid, Donald 288, 289 Kingston, Don R. 202 Kinnick, Nile 127 Kirk, Donna 53 Kirk, Francis L. 129 Kizer, Bill Sr. 53 Kluza, Joseph 340 Knapp, Bill 185 Knutsen, Phyllis 58 Kohl, Betty Busboom 57 Komasinski, Frank S. 107 Kotlarz, Stanley 132, 156 Koziol, Frank 192, 202 Koziol, John 202 Kratville, Bill 87 Kreifel, George 245 Kreutner, Laverne 279 Krovas, Merle 265 Krupa, Paul 340 Kruse, Elaine 316 Kudron, Jerome 44 Kuhn, Eugene 207 Kunc, Ila Mae 63 Kurcz, Frank 340 Kuroki, Ben 140 Kwapnioski, Isidore 100 Labs, Ruben 209 Lane, Charles 143 Lang, Richard 128 Larimore, Ray E. 203 Larson, Charles 268 Laux, Therese 118 Leeman, Charles 306, 312 Leffler, Delbert C. 174 Leinen, Estelle 92 LeMay, Curtis E. 241 Lemon, Henry 317 Leonard, Carl 278

Leonard, Donald J. 195 Leonard, Zola Beth Barnett 309 Lette, Eleanor 146 Lette, Eloise 146 Lewis, Bob 245 Lewis, Lloyd 233 Limprecht, Hollis 217, 219 Lines, Volna 277 Linn, Howard 11 Lipsey, James 303 Littrell, Boyd 315 Longo, Joseph A. 200 Loomis, Clyde E. Jr. 173 Lowe, Jack v Luebke, Frederick iv Lueder, Robert G. 121 Lundberg, Arnold 268 Lundy, Clarence 268 Lykins, Norma Woodka 74 Lynch, Jean 96 Lynch, Keith B. 118 MacAfferty, Dwight 59 MacArthur, Douglas 284 Madsen, Hildreth 65, 72 Madsen, Marie Swircinski 78 Maidment, Arthur 144, 147 Majorek, Frank 340 Malarkey, Don 155 Malmberg, Arthur H. "Red" 179 Marcy, Barbara 76 Marcy, Charles 77 Marks, Frank L. 44 Martens, Edwin 173 Martin, Jane E. 24 Martin, Ken 212, 323 Mascarello, Angelena 144 Mascarello, Phil 145, 153 Masters, Mary Jane 14 Matson, Raymond C. 58 Matson, Roy M. 202 Mauser, Ed 154, 155, 210, 326, 327 May, Charline 107 Mazourek, Martin 319 McCall, Charles E. 203 McCarthy, Herbert 236 McCarthy, Roger 145, 151, 153 McClara, Dale 203 McClean, Melvin L. 119 McCloud, Rever 136 McCollum, Paul Melville 157 McCown, L.S. 178 McDonald, Mike 42 McDonald, Peter H. 42 McEvoy, Kathleen Manahan 25 McGargill, G.R. 49 McGraw, Danny 275 McIntyre, Maxine 88 McKeon, Erna Maas 146 McLain, Elsie 50 McLendon, Mary 35 McMorris, Robert 231 McNeely, Howard 310, 311 McNeely, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 310, 311 McTaggert, Neil 248 Meade, Lawrence E. 176 Meduna, Raymond 128 Mefferd, Isabelle 33 Melcher, Richard 178 Melton, Bill 136 Merrell, Ray 82 Merriman, Marie 56 Mertz, Charles 56 Mertz, Rose 56 Mihelich, Dennis 316 Miklas, Joe 165 Miller, Charles 77 Miller, Floyd 196 Miller, Frank 122, 337 Miller, Glenn 127 Miller, Louis L. 15 Miller, Mary 107 Miller, Nick 60 Miller, Rex 291 Miller, Robert F. 28 Miller, Warren E. 7 Miller, Warren 290 Miller, Wes 123, 337 Mills, Ronald 319 Miltonberger, Butler B. 167, 170, 186, 187, 190, 197, 312, 313 Minks, Russell 139 Mireles, Anthony J. 99 Mitsumori, Nora Maehara 109 Miya, Tom 109 Mohar, Althea Nispel 69 Montgomery, Anna 33 Moore, Dorothy Dee cover, 331, 332 Moore, Glenda 107 Moore, Nancy Jo cover 331, 332 Moore, Robert R. cover, 122, 331, 332 Moore, Robert R. Jr. 331, 332 Moore, Rowena 75 Morrissey, Eleanor Hurley 146 Morse, Phillip 254 Mullen, Bill 255 Munch, Robert 312 Munhall, Elizabeth 119 Munhall, Kenneth 119 Munn, Doyle 133 Murphy, Roy C. 121 Myers, Louis E. 289 Nachman, Benjamin 223 Nagaki, Tad 240 Nakadoi, Bob 108

Nakadoi, Em 108 Nalty, Bernard 22 Narducci, Joseph L. 154 Nasr, Fred G. 21 Neal, Dennis 134, 333 Neff, Ward 174 Nelson, Byron 103 Nelson, Claire 106 Nelson, Dallas 22 Nelson, E.T. "Junior" 296 Nelson, Geraldine Killion 91 Nelson, Lois 103 Nero, Hillard 128 Ness, John 291 Nicholas, Bill 236 Nicholson, Bricie 239 Nickels, Bobby 116 Nickels, Mary 116 Nider, Bernard 157 Nitz, Faye J. MacMannis 146 Nolda, Herbert E. 155 Northrup, Mrs. David 53 Nouzovsky, Millard 319 Novak, Robert 259 Novak, Robert 291 Nygren, George 282 O'Brien, Bernard 282 Odvarka, Morris A. 121 Offerjost, Mary Sue Golding 62 O'Grady, Kathleen 86 O'Hare, S. Herbert 318 Ohm, Eddie 212 O'Neill, Margery 88 Orme, Jane 178 Orr, Carolyn Kay 110 Orsi, Claudio 44, 321 Ortegren, Raymond 206 Otto, Delbert L. 148 Owen, Robert 133, 135 Paddock, Don 286 Page, Janet 33 Page, Robert 33 Palmer, Lester 33 Pankonin, Elmer 328 Papke, Elmer 188 Paradise, Robert 20 Pattavina, Joe Sr. 213 Patterson, Ben 129 Patterson, James 30 Patton, Charles F. 41 Patton, Don 334, 339 Patton, George S. 170, 171 Paulson, George 236, 237 Paynter, Floyd 185, 202 Pecha, Edward 340 Pecha, John 340 Pedersen, Glenn 152, 153 Pedersen, Virgil C. 172 Penry, Jerry 99 Perkins, Robert 235, 261 Peters, George 260 Petersen, Todd 96 Peterson, Mrs. Raymond G. 49 Petrashek, Richard "Peter" 303 Pettit, Neal 233 Pfeifer, Clarence 270 Pickett, Allan 227 Piper, Mary 88 Plummer, Bernard 114 Plummer, Frank 114 Plummer, Hazel 114 Plummer, Kenneth 114 Pollard, Harold J. 245 Polonski, Bluma 220 Ponting, Nelly 131 Popa, Vral 274 Porter, Gwen Beebe 67 Potts, Harry 276 Poulicek, James 132 Power, Thomas S. 241 Powers, Jean 60 Praeuner, Carl 164 Pratt, Clifford L. 221 Pratt, Lillard E. 116 Pratt, Pauline Spence 116 Pratt, William 74 Prautzsch, Werner 103 Preslar, James E. 120 Price, William 275 Pyle, Ernie 182, 239 Quinn, Grady 10 Rachow, William A. "Bill" 149 Rader, Benjamin 315 Radford, Charles 134 Radford, Mary Lois Harmon 85 Radicia, Harold 227 Radicia, John 226 Radil, Ludwig "Lou" 10 Radosti, Betty Vandeveer 92 Raish, Clive John 17 Rakosnik, Joseph 233 Ramsey, Bill 223 Rastede, Floyd D. 144 Reade, Donna 106 Reaves, William 307 Recek, Marjorie 63 Redmon, Evan 127 Redmon, Evelyn 127 Reed, Frederick A. 200 Reed, George A. 76 Reed, Richard K. 313 Reents, John H. 174, 202

A fitting film for 1945 at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, as the civilian population eagerly awaited the return of loved ones.

Reifschneider, Alex 267 Reilly, Bob 308 Reissig, Nancy Lee 21 Renander, Jan Castle 333 Reynolds, Rev. C.C. 107 Reynolds, Dorothy 125 Rhoades, Lyle 199 Richards, Marge 102 Rickey, Nan Viergutz 27 Ritter, Agnes 33 Rizzuti, Leo 99 Roberts, Frank 329 Roberts, I.E. 54 Robidoux, Johnny 166, 189, 199 Robinson, Robert 302 Rocha, Mary 73 Roker, Myron 124 Romero, Vivian M. Woodring 300 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 72 Roschewski, Eldon 328 Rosenberg, Carl 222 Rosenberg, Rachel 215, 220 Rosenthal, Herman 148 Roush, Thelma 104 Rowell, Loren 209 Rowoldt, Paul 316 Ruemping, Robert 340 Russell, George 253 Ryan, Jerry 59 Rynearson, William 229 Salak, Dorothy 177 Salleng, Sarah 87 Sambasile, Sam 211 Samson, Leo 171 Sands, Robert L. 177 Sargent, Homer 45 Sass, Jacob J. 193 Sass, Martin 260 Scalise, Paul M. 232 Scalzo, John R. 186 Schad, Earle M. 24 Schafer, Ed 119 Schafer, James 176 Schaffer, Lois Cole 49 Schenkel, Mrs. Robert 60 Schinstock, Francis 233 Schleif, Dorral 208 Schmidt, Hazel 98 Schmitz, Lou 212 Schmuecker, Melvin 123 Schock, Bill 15 Schrack, Donald D. 174 Schram, Kenneth 325 Schroeder, Walter 178 Schroth, Max B. 282 Schuler, Pete 152 Schultz, Charlotte Rees 79 Schultz, Frederick 79 Schulz, Wilma 300 Schupbach, Phyllis 34 Schutte, Reinold 212 Schuyler, Michael 76, 316 Schwartz, Dale 132 Schwartz, William 132

Seaman, Jack 202 Sedlacek, Bernard 8 Sedlak, George 25 Sedlak, Helen Houska 75 Seemann, Lee 152 Selzle, Tom 35 Semerena, Josephine J. Delahunty 92 Sendroski, Joe 178 Shearer, Elmer L. 191 Sheehan, Robert R. 41 Sheets, Milford 278 Sheets, Wilford 278 Sheffloe, Mort 145 Sheneman, Leland E. 203 Shrier, Betty Dineen 223 Sievers, Charles L. 244 Sirek, Barbara "Betty" Becker 62 Sites, Lawrence 202 Skahill, Jim 177 Skaw, Oran 228 Skinner, Jesse W. 165 Sklenar, Bud 207 Skoff, Joe 129 Slaughter, Donald 140 Sliva, Tim 101 Slizeski, Marjorie 79 Sloboth, Daniel J. 244 Slone, Cindy 323 Smith, Alva 145 Smith, Amelia 104 Smith, George 229 Smith, Glenn 72 Smith, Ivan 290 Smith, Marianna 59 Smith, Mary L. 146 Smith, Max 272 Smith, Ralph 44 Smith, Walter Bedell 230 Soloman, Mrs. Edwin N. 53 Solomon, Maddrey 200 Somer, Benjamin 245 Sommers, Francis 7 Sorensen, Erwin 271 Sorensen, Harry C. 231 Soucie, Janet 228 Spar, Shirley 88 Spaulding, Donald 288, 289 Sporleder, June 92 Stanley, Richard 53 Starr, Vi 67 Starkey, Raymond K. 203 Steck, Jason 295 Stecker, Warren 248 Steckmyer, Jean 134 Steger Ainsley, 323 Steger Aspen, 323 Steger Austin, 323 Steger Avalon, 323 Stehno, Raymond W. 120 Steinmiller, Herman 264 Stella, Don 43 Stertz, Leonard 271 Stewart, Cal 140, 141 Stewart, Joe 268 Stiles, Mickey 106

Stillmock, Frank 254 Stockwell, Glade 287 Storm, Lyle 161 Story, Rev. L.A. 53 Storz, Robert 97, 141 Storz, Robert H. 318 Strauss, Willis A. 282 Struble, Kenny 323 Subject, Dorothy 107 Sullivan, Rita 15, 59 Supanchick, Edward L. 197 Sutton, Mrs. R.M. 53 Svacina, Frank 268 Swagerty, Cal 162 Swanson, Raymond 309 Talbott, Marion 177 Terranova, Terry 81 Terry, Timothy 320 Thatcher, David 40 Thelen, Bob 283 Thomas, Lyle 269 Thompson, Glenn 102 Thomsen, Alfred 186 Thurtell, Frank 5 Tibbets, Paul 294, 295 Tiedje, Anna 76, 77 Timmermann, Karl 208, 209 Tinley, Hugh 230 Tipton, Roger 193 Titus, Estelle 107 Tomasiewicz, Leo 164 Torpin, Kenneth P. 148 Tourek, Frank J.G. 238 Townley, Robert H. 189 Tracy, William 271 Trentman, Elmer v Tretter, Pearl 104 Truman, Harry 318 Tunnyhill, Duane 237, 298, 299 Turkel, Ralph 88 Turner, Loren 309 Turner, Mauri 328 Tuttle, Rosemary 198 Uhl, Frederick E. 18, 280 Ulpis, Elza 219 Umezu, Yoshijiro 284 Vacanti, Joseph 200 Vacek, Laddie J. 237 Vaclavek, Dorothy 60 Vail, John E. 259 Vance, Joy 52 Van Dyke, Kenneth C. 178 Vannier, Everett L. "Slim" 148 Vollmar, Glen 315 Vosteen, Delta Meyer 99 Wagoner, William 178 Wainwright, Rev. Sandra 339 Wallace, Helen Bette W. 45 Walsh, Joseph E. 213 Waltmier, Bob 88 Warin, G.L. 251

Washington, Clark 136 Welsh, Betty 88 Wempe, Charles "Doc" 164 Wentworth, Helen 123 Wheeldon, James 272 White, B.J. 85 White, Ernest J. 179 White, Lucille 104 Whitehead, Delwyn 147, 196 Wickard, Theodore 32 Wiebold, Sandy 23 Wiehenkamp, Paul H. 202 Wilkins, Robert F. 232 Wilkinson, Elgin 193 Williams, Bill 322 Williams, Mrs. E.C. 87 Williams, Evonne 322 Williams, Kitty 224, 225 Williams, R.T. 314 Wilson, L.G. 178 Wilson, Rae 81 Wilt, Allen 152 Winslow, Wayne R. 126 Wirth, Robert A. 188 Wittenberger, Jerry 56 Wochek, Helen 33 Wochner, Bill 261 Wolbach, Monsignor Richard 238 Wolfe, Audrey 38 Wolk, Sammy 191 Wood, Charles 29 Wood, Warren C. 190, 191, 193 Woods, Harry 287 Wooldridge, Charles L. "Spike" 315 Wooldridge, Lois 63 Worthing, Billy 282 Wortman, Fred "Fritz" 329 Wostoupal, Robert L. 208, 209 Wright, Jean 57 Wright, Ray 60 Wulff, Virgil 268 Wurtz, Meredith 58 Yarger, John 240 Young, Norma 127 Youngman, Lawrence 30, 166, 167, 168, 202, 324, 325 Zachariae, Betty 51 Zachariae, Lloyd 328 Zagurski, Joseph 340 Zambuto, Frank Sr. 149 Zerbe, De Emmett B. 149 Ziemba, Eddie 124 Ziemba, Jim 124 Ziemba, Joe 124 Ziemba, Louie 124 Zuchowski, Janet J. 85 Zukowski, Robert 8

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