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THEY GAVE 

THEIR ALL 

´ 

WWII: The War Effort in Indiana County 

A journey into history through 

interviews with local WWII veterans, 

their families, and Indiana County 

residents who were engaged in 

supporting the war effort. 

A supplement to The Indiana Gazette ~ Monday, September 17, 2012

S-2 — Monday, September 17, 2012 

About 

this 

project 

World War II was fought 

some 70 years ago, and 

hundreds from the Greatest 

Generation are dying every 

day. That’s why we thought it 

was important to assemble 

stories of local veterans of the 

war that can be saved as a 

piece of history. Some of 

them are first-person 

accounts; others are told by 

family members or through 

journal entries. 

They Gave Their All 

The Indiana Gazette 

The war, 

by the 

numbers 

Dates: Sept. 1, 1939- 

Sept. 2, 1945. U.S. 

involvement began on 

Dec. 8, 1942 

Allies: Soviet Union, 

United States (1942-45), 

Britain, China, France, 

Poland,Canada, Australia, 

New Zealand, South 

Africa, Yugoslavia, Greece, 

Norway, Netherlands, 

Belgium, Czechoslovakia, 

Brazil 

Axis: Germany (Adolf 

Hitler), Japan (Hirohito), 

Italy (Benito Mussolini) 

Allied casualties: About 

16 million military dead; 

45 million civilians dead 

U.S. casualties: About 

416,800 military dead; 

1,700 civilians dead 

Axis casualties: 8 

million military dead; 

4 million civilians dead 

About 

the cover 

Designed by Debbie Palmer, 

the Gazette’s marketing 

director, the cover is a collage 

of World War II-era images. 

Clockwise, from top: the 

invasion of Normandy, a 

wartime parade, a war ration 

book, an actual letter sent 

during the war and efforts on 

the homefront. 

Submitted photo 

DRAFTEES INTO the Army gathered at the bus station in Indiana on April 6, 1944. Mrs. Russell Bonnarigo provided this photo, which shows her 

husband, circled in red. Russell passed away in July 2011. 

Exhibit details county’s war efforts 

By HEATHER ROTH 

hroth@indianagazette.net 

There’s a story for everything. 

Every photograph, 

every military 

uniform, every medal in the 

glass cases. 

And Chuck Spence, curator 

of the military exhibit upstairs 

in the Indiana County 

Historical and Genealogical 

Society Museum, loves to tell 

them. 

“You point to something, 

I’ll tell you a story,” he said. “I 

love to give people tours, so I 

do.” 

The museum is housed in 

the old armory, behind the 

Silas Clark House at Sixth 

and School streets and 

Wayne Avenue. The second 

level is dedicated to the military 

history of Indiana County 

residents. 

Almost everything was donated 

by either a county veteran 

or a veteran’s family. 

And as he tells their stories, 

Spence makes each of them 

sound like old friends. 

There’s George Harris, 

whose sister Margaret 

owned a flower shop in Indiana, 

who served in the Army 

and the Navy and whose 

photos and uniforms decorate 

the walls. He lost his father 

to the influenza epidemic 

in 1918, spent the rest 

TOM PEEL/Gazette 

CHUCK SPENCE is the curator of the military exhibit upstairs at the Indiana County Historical 

and Genealogical Society. 

of his childhood in an orphanage 

and kept signing up 

with the military when he 

couldn’t find work in Indiana. 

There’s a painting made on 

a bedsheet by a German 

prisoner of war and given to 

Indiana’s Harry Young when 

the war ended. 

There’s a submarine model 

donated by Jim Donahue, of 

Robinson, who served on a 

sub that crept into Tokyo 

Harbor, torpedoed two destroyers 

right there in the 

harbor, then “had to run like 

hell” before the harbor gates 

closed them in. 

“He said it was fun,” 

Spence said. 

Walking into the first room, 

right across from the door 

stands Spence’s proudest 

accomplishment: three 

Medals of Honor, one each 

from the Army, the Air Force 

and the Marine Corps. 

“You are not going to see 

(those) in every museum,” 

he said. “I can pester.” 

Spence said he wrote first 

to the Army, asking for a 

medal to display; they said 

no. 

After he asked and asked 

and asked again, they finally 

agreed — if the museum 

would build a case to their 

specifications, locked and 

with bulletproof glass and 

fastened onto the wall. 

After the Army’s Medal of 

Honor arrived, Spence wrote 

to the Air Force, which 

agreed to send one. 

The Marine Corps took 

more pestering, but eventually 

it also complied. 

Now all three are displayed 

in that case, designed to the 

Army’s specifications, surrounded 

by stories of eight 

Indiana County residents 

from the Civil War through 

Vietnam who were honored 

with Medals of Honor. 

“People have to know it’s 

here,” he said. 

There’s a second, longer 

room as well, where display 

cases start with Civil War artifacts 

and continue through 

a memorial for Christine 

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VFW honor guard dedicated 

to providing respectful final rest 


PHOTOS FROM the exhibit show groups of draftees in 1941 in 

Indiana as they left for boot camp. These photos at one time 

hung on the walls of the former Indiana Gazette building along 

Philadelphia Street as a tribute to the troops. The dates, from 

top, are March 30, April 5, April 10 and May 3, 1941. 

Exhibit details 

county war efforts 

Continued from Page S-2 

Mayes and Beverly Clark, 

who died serving in Desert 

Storm. 

Some of the Civil War items 

have a personal connection 

for Spence; he donated a pistol 

to the exhibit. 

Other items have quirky 

stories. There’s a pack of 

Lucky Strike cigarettes in a 

green carton; Lucky Strikes 

used to come in white, but 

the sun reflected off the white 

and gave away U.S. soldiers’ 

locations. So they made 

green cartons instead. 

Hanging on the wall is a 

map showing invasion plans 

for Japan, had the war not 

ended after the bombs were 

dropped. 

A gun case displays rifles 

and pistols; another shows 

rifle grenade launchers. And 

HEINLE 

ELECTRIC 

there’s a separate display of 

knives and daggers, including 

a short-bladed Chinese dagger 

Spence said his brother 

brought home to him; he 

thought it was a good throwing 

knife. 

Spence has been with the 

historical society since 1998. 

The military exhibit came 

about after the county offered 

to help raise money to 

restore the old armory for the 

organization, in exchange for 

a room dedicated to military 

history. But Spence loves it. 

“I’m just military minded,” 

he explained. 

Going forward, he wants to 

make improved labels for the 

displays so visitors can understand 

what they’re seeing, 

even without a tour. 

But he’ll still be giving tours. 

“I have fun,” he said. 



It started in the years following 

World War II. 

Newly returned themselves, 

veterans gathered to 

provide military funerals to 

honor those who didn’t make 

it home. 

But it wasn’t until the 1970s 

that an official honor guard 

formed at the Veterans of 

Foreign Wars Post 1989 in 

White Township. And in the 

decades since, members 

have gathered at grave sites 

of countless fellow veterans, 

honoring them with flagfolding 

ceremonies, taps and 

a gun salute. 

“For all the guys, (there is) 

one specific purpose: to give 

respect to a fallen comrade,” 

said Walt Friday, who coordinates 

the effort. “As a veteran 

(myself), I personally would 

like to pay my respects.” 

The honor guard now has 

13 active and two inactive 

members. By mid-August 

they had performed ceremonies 

at 38 veterans’ funerals. 

The ceremony is simple. A 

chaplain reads two prayers 

while two members of the 

honor guard ceremonially 

fold the flag and present it to 

the next of kin. Further away, 

a bugler plays taps. Then the 

remaining members fire a 

salute. 

“To do it properly you need 

11 people,” Friday said. But 

with just 13 active members, 

they often make do with 

fewer. When he receives a call 

from a funeral director, Friday 

starts calling down his 

list, gathering however many 

he can to attend. 

All of the honor guard 

members are volunteers. 

They originally bought their 

own uniforms, but over the 

years the VFW has bought 

jackets, slacks and all-weather 

topcoats so everyone looks 

the same. 

And they don’t charge for 

their services, though they 

do take donations. 

They provide the honors 

for any veteran, regardless of 

when he or she served or in 

what branch of the military, 

and regardless of whether 

the deceased was a member 

of their own post. 

“We do military honors 

and give the respect that that 

veteran deserves,” Friday 

said. 

Bob Walker, a World War II 

veteran himself who is now 

92, said he has done “hundreds” 

of military funerals. 

Walker was the coordinator 

until health problems forced 

him to step down in January, 

and he hopes to pick it back 

up again soon. 

“It’s our duty,” he said. 

Walker signed up to join 


DONALD K. BECKER of the VFW Honor Guard presented the flag to the family of World War II 

Army veteran William Smith, of Indiana, on Aug. 27. He was 85. 

MEMBERS OF the 

honor guard fired a 

salute during the 

funeral. Albert Coret, 

above, played taps. 

Who they are 

Harry Pennington 

David Briggs 

Albert Corte 

Bill Pearce 

Bill Niebauer 

Ed Baker 

Don Becker 

Joe Hancock 

Harvey Peffer 

Dave Osgood 

Richard Brocius 

Russell Schroeder 

Walter Friday 

Joe Boyer (inactive) 

Bob Walker (inactive) 

the Navy after Pearl Harbor 

was attacked. He remembered 

going with his father to 

Johnstown to enlist in the 

Army and seeing the line of 

men snake out the post office 

door and down the block. 

Not wanting to wait, he went 

to the Navy office instead. He 

was sworn in on Dec. 18, and 

reported for training the day 

after Christmas. 

He went on to serve near 

Alaska, and later in the South 

Pacific. 

“I call it island-hopping,” 

he said. 

After he was discharged in 

1945, Walker returned to Indiana. 

He was among the 

veterans who accorded military 

honors to those who 

died in the war, and joined 

the VFW post in 1947. He was 

also among those who began 

the honor guard in the 1970s. 

“We just decided we would 

have an honor guard,” he 

said. 

In the first years, members 

would practice at the post. 

Now they’ll occasionally 

practice folding the flag, but 

nothing else. 

At first it was difficult finding 

someone who could play 

taps. Friday said they used to 

pull a boy out of high school 

to play the trumpet for them. 

Now they have a ceremonial 

bugle with a digital recording 

of taps, so anyone can “play” 

it. 

“It’s so clear,” he said. 

“When you hear the taps and 

such, it’s a tear-jerker.” 

Both Walker and Friday 

said there have been fewer 

funerals for World War II veterans 

in recent years; there 

are fewer of them around 

now. Instead, it’s Vietnam 

veterans whose funerals 

they’ve mostly been attending. 

Going forward, the biggest 

challenge to keeping the tradition 

going is age. Of the 13 

members, all but two are 

over 65. “Trying to get 

younger people to get involved” 

is the challenge, Friday 

said. 

Post Commander Karen 

Holland said there are so 

many traditions that have 

been upheld, but “there 

hasn’t been anyone around 

to pass them on to.” 

For those who have dedicated 

countless hours to 

honoring veterans, she said it 

fits the VFW motto: “to honor 

the dead by helping the living.” 

“They just really have it in 

their hearts,” she said. 

Don’t let voice of history fall silent 

By BILL ZIMMERMAN 

billz@indianagazette.net 

He only paused for a few seconds to 

ponder my question, but as my late 

grandfather fought back tears, it 

seemed like an eternity for me. 

One of those uncomfortable moments 

with seemingly no end. 

We were talking about his time in 

World War II and about the military 

service of his two brothers, one of whom 

fought in Iwo Jima, Japan. 

He never did shed a tear and explained, 

“About two or three of them 

was in a foxhole, and I think two of the 

guys were killed. And then he came 

home.” 

He paused again, then my grandmother 

added: “He made it. Not very 

good, though.” 

Aside from that moment, and the 

tinge of guilt I felt for prying, the farranging 

interview I did with my grandparents 

a few years back proved enjoyable 

and illuminating. 

In this special publication, the Gazette 

staff has set out to document the stories 

of local World War II veterans, leaving a 

lasting tribute to their service. However, 

no professional expertise is needed to 

document a loved one’s history. 

I approached the 2009 interview with 

my maternal grandparents Frank and 

Vera Sturm as an inquisitive grandson 

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much more conversational, although 

there was a cassette recorder and microphone 

present. We spoke for more than 

an hour and half and my grandfather’s 

war record accounted for only a small 

portion of the interview, conducted at 

their home near Johnstown. 

It left me with a better understanding 

of my grandparents as well as new insight 

into a large swath of 20th century 

history, from the Great Depression to 

the industrial collapse, that made our 

region part of the Rust Belt. 

Both first-generation Americans, they 

touched on the plight of immigrants — 

both had fathers die in coal mines — as 

well as the strong sense of community 


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Don’t let voice of history fall silent — talk now 


that developed among these 

newcomers — the first to have 

a television in a neighborhood 

populated by others with roots 

in present-day Slovenia, they 

opened their home for friends 

to watch, too. 

Shortly after conducting the 

interview, I learned of the National 

Day of Listening, an effort 

by the New York-based 

nonprofit StoryCorps to use 

the day after Thanksgiving “to 

encourage all Americans to 

honor a friend, a loved one or a 

member of their community 

by interviewing them about 

their lives.” 

Founded in 2003, StoryCorps 

has undertaken a massive oral 

history project going beyond 

its day of observance. More 

than 40,000 interviews from 

nearly 80,000 participants 

have been preserved at the 

American Folklife Center of 

the Library of Congress. 

StoryCorps spokeswoman 

Krisi Packer told me the mission 

is to “record, share and 

preserve stories of everyday 

people, of all backgrounds and 

beliefs, anywhere across the 

country.” 

StoryCorps, whose motto is 

“every voice matters,” maintains 

permanent and mobile 

studios where interviews can 

be captured and submitted. 

Plus its website, www.story 

corps.org, offers a wealth of information 

on how to do it 

yourself. 

“Even if you go in with your 

best friend or your mother or 

your aunt or your grandfather 

you can be guaranteed that 

you will find out something 

you had no idea about because 

you had that sacred time to sit 

down and just ask them questions 

you always wanted to,” 

Packer said. 

During World War II, my 

grandfather served in the Merchant 

Marines, which afforded 

him the chance to see the 

world as ships docked in such 

locales as Aruba, Morocco and 

Scotland. Life at sea could be 

enjoyable — flying fish that 

landed on the boat were 

cooked by the chef, poker 

games were frequent — and 

dangerous. 

“The first trip I made it was 

loaded it with 55-gallon drums 

FRANK STURM served during World War II as a Merchant Marine. 

of gasoline,” he said. “If we’d 

have got torpedoed, that 

would have been it.” 

He also shed light on the 

decades-long struggle of merchant 

mariners, who served on 

merchant ships, rather than 

U.S. military vessels, in obtaining 

the same government benefits 

as others who served. (See 

sidebar.) Legislation has been 

proposed to grant them the 

full benefits of the GI Bill, but 

no laws have been signed. He 

wondered “what the hell was 

the matter” with Congress. 

“I just read in the paper, two 

obituaries, two merchant 

marines, seamen, died,” he 

said. 

After the war, he returned to 

his job as a machinist, retiring 

in 1986. He also operated a 

greenhouse, selling plants 

from in front of his house for 

more than 40 years. 

On Nov. 28, 2011, my grandfather 

passed away at the age 

of 88. All three of his children 

have CDs of the interview and 

the 17-page, single-spaced 

transcript. I’m thankful for it 

and hope it enriches other 

generations as well. It was fulfilling 

for Pap too, Grandma 

said. 

“He liked being in the limelight,” 

she said. 

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StoryCorps’ Krisi Packer said requesting an interview 

shouldn’t be a daunting task because “you’re telling 

that person ‘I would like to know more about you.’” 

Here are some recommended questions: 

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saddest 

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What lessons did that person teach you 

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learned in life 

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along to me 

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■ How has your life been different than what you’d 

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■ How would you like to be remembered 

■ Do you have any regrets 

■ What does your future hold 

■ Is there anything that you’ve never told me but 

want to tell me now 

■ Is there something about me that you’ve always 

wanted to know but have never asked 

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Bill would honor 

Merchant Mariners 



As lawmakers often do 

when naming legislation, 

Rep. Bob Filner 

made his intentions clear in 

the title of House Resolution 

23. 

It’s the Belated Thank You to 

the Merchant Mariners of 

World II Act, and the proposal 

to expand government benefits 

to veterans really seems 

belated to him — it’s been a 

cause of the California Democrat 

for 15 years. 

Merchant mariners suffered 

the most casualties per capita 

of any other branch of the 

military during World War II, 

but missed out on many of 

the benefits offered to other 

veterans. Viewing them more 

as civilian contractors, it wasn’t 

until the late 1980s that the 

government offered merchant 

mariners some benefits 

under the GI Bill, but never 

the full entitlement offered to 

other veterans. 

“My dad came back from 

World War II, he was able to 

go to college, but more importantly 

we could buy a 

house for a thousand bucks. 

We joined the middle class,” 

he said by phone in July. “I 

was in a good neighborhood 

all of a sudden, a good school. 

I go to college, become a congressman. 

“The GI Bill was one of the 

most important acts we ever 

passed, but the merchant 

mariners were not eligible, 

and I thought after all these 

years ... that you say thank 

you finally.” 

Under Filner’s plan, each eligible 

merchant mariner 

would receive a monthly benefit 

of $1,000. The surviving 

spouses of veterans who died 

would also be eligible. He expects 

it would cost $100 million 

a year with the total costs 

decreasing each year as more 

veterans pass away. 

Filner, who was born in 

Pittsburgh, introduced his 

latest legislation related to the 

mariners on Jan. 5, 2011. On 

Feb. 18, 2011, lawmakers referred 

it to the Subcommittee 

on Disability Assistance and 

Memorial Affairs. 

No action has been taken 

since. (Rep. Mark Critz, D- 

Johnstown, is among the bill’s 

88 co-sponsors.) 

In his statement to Congress, 

he said “Although World 

War II merchant mariners 

suffered the highest casualty 

rate of any of the branches of 

service while they delivered 

troops, tanks, food, airplanes, 

fuel and other needed supplies 

to every theater of the 

war, this group of brave men 

was denied their rights under 

the GI Bill of Rights that Congress 

enacted in 1945. Also, 

they were not classified as 

veterans for Social Security 

purposes and receive a smaller 

benefit than other vets.” 

Researchers have put the 

death rate in the Merchant 

Marines at 1 in 26, exceeding 

all other armed services. Filner 

puts the number of surviving 

mariners at between 

7,000 and 8,000, and thinks 

the attitude in Congress is “to 

wait ’em out and there won’t 

be any of them here.” 

“The problem is, it costs 

money,” he said. “I mean it’s 

not that much in the scheme 

of things, but it costs money. 

Anything that costs money is 

going to be hard, especially 

when you’re talking about a 

time when most of the Congress 

was not alive, doesn’t remember, 

it’s ancient history. 

“Rather than say, ‘This is a 

signal to all veterans that we 

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‘No we don’t even want to 

take it up.’ I say, one, you got a 

$14 trillion debt and a few 

hundred million doesn’t 

change it that much. But 

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a lack of understanding of the 

past and two, refusal to do 

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Stewart’s biggest role 

may have been as pilot 

Starr Smith devoted almost 

300 pages to Stewart’s military 

career in his 2005 book, 

“Jimmy Stewart, Bomber 

Pilot,” published by Zenith 

Press. 

Smith served as a combat 

intelligence officer with the 

Eighth Air Force, where he 

got to know Stewart and his 

work. 

As Starr and other Stewart 

biographers have noted, the 

Indiana native decided to 

serve his country before the 

United States officially entered 

the war in December 

1941. Although many Americans 

believed the U.S. should 

stay out of Europe prior to 

the Japanese bombing of 

Pearl Harbor, Stewart had a 

different vision. His father 

had served in the Spanish- 

American War and World War 

I, and the young actor believed 

America must be prepared 

to protect its national 

concerns in world affairs. 

He was most interested in 

the buildup of American air 

power. Stewart took an interest 

in flying while still in 

school, and kept close tabs 

on Charles Lindbergh’s trip 

from New York to Paris. Smith 

writes that Stewart was in Indiana 

during that historic 

flight, and ran back and forth 

from the family hardware 

store to the office of The Indiana 

Evening Gazette to mark 

Lindbergh’s progress. 

During his early days in 

Hollywood, Stewart took flying 

lessons and became such 

an enthusiast that in 1937 he 

served as a co-pilot in a race 

from Los Angeles to Cleveland. 

There are conflicting stories 

about whether Stewart 

was drafted or volunteered 

for service in the U.S. Army. 

Smith writes that Stewart was 

drafted in 1940 at age 32, but 

Army physicians rejected 

him based on his relatively 

light weight — which 

prompted a few catty Hollywood 

headlines such as 

“Movie Hero Heavy Enough 

to Knock Out Villains, But Too 

Light for Uncle Sam.” 

Stewart appealed the initial 

decision, however, Smith 

continues, and was inducted 

at Fort MacArthur, Calif., in 

March 1941, where he was 

assigned to the Army Air 

Corps. In joining the Army, 

Stewart very much wanted to 

be treated as a soldier and 

not as a Hollywood star. But it 

By MARY ANN SLATER 

news@indianagazette.net 

Jimmy Stewart was flying high in early 1940s Hollywood. There was his 

Oscar-winning performance in 1940 in “The Philadelphia Story,” which 

followed his critically acclaimed appearances in “Mr. Smith Goes to 

Washington” and “The Shop Around the Corner.” 

He had grown quite popular both in professional and social circles of the 

pre-World War II film industry. 

But Stewart, born and raised in Indiana, did not reach the heights that he 

most wanted to achieve through his acting. Rather he accomplished this 

mission by flying more than 2,000 hours over Europe in a bomber plane, 

the B-24 Liberator, during World War II. Stewart flew in combat with units 

of the 2nd Bomb Wing of the Eighth Air Force, and capped his wartime 

stint with a promotion to commander of the 2nd Bomb Wing in 1945. 

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took a while before he got his 

wish. 

Although he readily proved 

he was a capable pilot, military 

officials worried that if 

the popular Stewart was ever 

hurt or killed in combat, national 

morale would take a 

heavy blow, according to 

Marc Eliot, another Stewart 

biographer. So though he 

graduated near the top of his 

class when he completed 

training on the B-17 Flying 

Fortress in New Mexico, he 

was the only student not immediately 

assigned to combat 

duty. 

In his book, “Jimmy Stewart, 

A Biography,” Eliot also 

writes that Army officials 

liked to use Stewart for his 

public relations value. 

Throughout 1942, Stewart 

made personal appearances 

as requested by the Army and 

made two shorts, the recruitment 

film “Winning Your 

Wings” and “Fellow Americans,” 

a recap of the tragedy 

at Pearl Harbor, which served 

as a reminder of why the U.S. 

entered the war. 

Stewart was stationed in 

Boise, Idaho, serving as a 

flight instructor and hoping 

for an overseas assignment. 

In the summer of 1943, a 

rumor started that instead of 

combat, he would be assigned 

to making training 

films or selling bonds. Fearful 

that he would never see war 

action, he petitioned Lt. Col. 

Walter “Pop” Arnold, his 

commanding officer in Boise, 

for help. Although Stewart 

had resolved never to use his 

star status as leverage for special 

favors, he desperately 

wanted to fly as an Army 

pilot. Arnold, a seasoned 

pilot, heard him out and recommended 

Stewart to be a 

squadron operations officer 

under Col. Bob Terrill’s 445th 

Group of B-24 Liberators. 

Just hours after Arnold 

made his recommendation 

to Terrill, Stewart was on his 

way to the 445th’s base in 

Sioux City, Iowa. 

The B-24 Liberator had 

been unveiled three years 

earlier in San Diego and it became 

the plane Stewart flew 

on all his combat missions. 

Fully loaded, the B-24 carried 

a crew of 10 and up to 10 50- 

caliber machine guns. It had 

a range of 2,850 miles, a ceiling 

of 32,000 feet and an air 

speed exceeding 300 miles 

per hour. The bomber was 66 

feet long, had a 110-foot 

wingspan and a fuselage 

large enough to carry a bomb 

load of 8,800 pounds. This 

CAPT. 

JIMMY 

STEWART 

appeared at 

a news 

conference 

on Dec. 2, 

1943, in 

London. 

was almost 2 tons more than 

the bomber Stewart had 

flown in training. 

After several months of 

training in Sioux City, Stewart 

flew off in the cockpit of a B- 

24 to Tibenham, England, 

about 13 miles from Norwich. 

The flight took two 

weeks — when counting 

weather delays. Before he 

left, his parents from Indiana 

visited Iowa to say farewell. 

As his goodbye, Alex Stewart 

gave his son a letter that included 

the 91st Psalm and his 

wish that faith in God will 

lead Jimmy home safely. “I 

continue only to pray. Goodbye, 

my dear. God bless you 

and keep you. I love you 

more than I can tell you. 

Dad.” 

One of Stewart’s first bombing 

missions occurred on 

Christmas Eve of 1943. In his 

book, Smith describes a 

briefing Stewart gave his men 

before the mission. The target 

was Bonnieres, France, 

where the Germans stored 

secret rocket emplacements. 

Stewart warned his men that 

flak from enemy fire would 

be heavy but said they should 

be able to keep their bearings 

by sighting the English coast 

at all times. 

As it turned out, more than 

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2,000 Allied bombers participated 

in the daylight mission, 

the largest joint mission to 

date. All aircraft returned intact 

to base. 

During the initial missions, 

Stewart flew as leader of his 

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Smith, Stewart told one of his 

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“The raids Major Stewart led 

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had faith in him. … That is to 

say, we found our targets, released 

our bombs with good 

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And Col. Ramsay Potts, 

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453rd, noted Stewart kept his 

crew calm by staying calm 

himself. “His pilots had absolute 

faith in him, and were 

willing to follow him wherever 

he led,” Potts told Smith for 

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Trio saw war from different vantage points 

By HEATHER BLAKE 

hblake@indianagazette.net 

One encountered the 

Germans up close and 

personal and helped 

liberate a German concentration 

camp. Another played 

an important part in bringing 

the war to its end in 

Japan. And the third’s duty 

was to bring the fallen home 

from the other side of the 

world. 

Their connection: They 

were brothers who all served 

their country in World War II. 

And each has his own unique 

story. 

Fred Thomas is the remaining 

survivor of the three. 

At 90, he still smiled brightly 

as he recalled his experiences 

during the war, his veterans 

hat resting prominently 

on his head. Anything that 

seemed difficult to remember 

had been immortalized 

on a taped interview from 

1991 with his great-nephew 

Tom Streams, son of Tom and 

Candy Streams, of Indiana. 

Fred, also known throughout 

his life as “Toody,” was 

drafted into the war in 1943, 

but had an 18-month deferment 

because of his job at 

the time as an employee for a 

defense plant, Union Switch 

& Signal, in Pittsburgh, where 

he worked for the Air Force 

building parts for airplanes. 

But he never thought of staying 

in the military long-term. 

“I never figured in my life 

that I wanted to make the 

Army my career back then,” 

said Thomas, who remained 

a private all the way through 

his service, in his interview 

21 years ago. “I was making 

pretty good money (at the 

plant) and was patriotic 

enough … (my brothers) suggested 

staying out “as long as 

you can because you’re better 

off, so that’s what I tried to 

do.” 

He originally tried to join 

the Air Force, he said, but “I 

had an awful headache when 

they gave the exam and 

didn’t make the test,” so he 

ended up in the Army infantry, 

“in the reconnaissance 

intelligence section.” 

He completed his 17-week 

basic training in Camp 

Blanding, Fla. 

He entered in January 1944 

and was in an outfit that was 

with the 45th infantry division 

called the Thunderbird, 

which was affiliated with the 

645th Tank Destroyer Battalion. 

He served in Italy first, 

when originally he thought 

he and the rest of his unit 

were going to land in North 

Africa. 

“We anchored offshore for 

a day or two, and evidently 

some bigger orders came 

through and they landed us 

in Italy,” he said. He was stationed 

there “long enough to 

take tank destroyer training.” 

From Italy he traveled to 

France, where civilians allowed 

American soldiers to 

use their homes to rest. 

“We were always on the 

move,” he said. “Sometimes 

the French … would let us 

sleep in their homes — in 

kitchens, on the floor, in 

sleeping bags.” 

It was also in France where 

he was given “what I thought 

was a first good, clean meal.” 

But rather than be excited 

to have a real meal after 

months of eating rations, he 


FRED THOMAS, seen here with his parents, also had two brothers who served in World War II. 

and the other two men assigned 

to the outfit in southern 

France had reason to be 

nervous. 

“The captain called us in 

and said, ‘You three are assigned 

to this outfit,’” 

Thomas recalled. “He said, 

‘What do you want to eat; do 

you want steak, turkey, roast 

turkey’” 

Fred said he and the other 

two men asked the captain 

why it was just them being 

assigned and getting to have 

a nice meal. The captain told 

them: Three men from the 

outfit had been out 

minesweeping. They stepped 

on a German mine planted 

on the side of the road, and 

all three were killed. Thomas 

and his companions were 

their replacements. 

“It was like we were getting 

our last meal before an execution,” 

he said. “It was a 

shock. I couldn’t believe they 

were giving us this big meal.” 

Unharmed in France, 

Thomas headed to Germany, 

where he was on the front 

lines during the von Rundstedt 

German offensive with 

jeeps, infantry, armored cars 

and tank destroyers. He had 

several stories of his time 

there, but one memorable 

experience that “had my 

Adam’s apple up in my 

throat” was one early Sunday 

morning as his unit was moving 

into a little German town. 

He recalled this experience in 

his 1991 interview. 

“General Eisenhower had 

broadcast from Europe that if 

the German people didn’t 

want their small towns or all 

their cities destroyed, to hang 

out big white sheets on poles 

outside their houses,” he 

said. 

Thomas and his fellow soldiers 

came across one such 

white sheet hanging outside, 

“and I said, ‘Hey, this is gonna 

be a piece of cake; nothing to 

it,’” he said. “I didn’t anymore 

than say that ’til all kinds of 

shooting started up.” 

An armored car that was 

with their platoon was ahead 

of them and drove into a 

courtyard with a barracks 

they assumed was empty — 

until it started “pouring out 

with German soldiers.” 

“They were just shooting 

up a storm, and the armored 

car was shooting,” he said. 

GENE THOMAS 

... served in the Pacific 

He and the two other men 

in his jeep drove up ahead, 

and they jumped out to take 

cover inside a barn. Up on a 

slight hill was a church with a 

machine gun situated outside, 

shooting right down a 

small bridge near where their 

jeep was parked. 

One man was looking out 

one of the windows (of the 

barn) and called Thomas 

over. 

“‘Hey, Thomas, come here,’ 

he said. ‘I see a German 

down there with a hand 

grenade,’” Thomas said. 

“I said, ‘Well, shoot him! 

Shoot him! Don’t wait on 

me!’” The man raised his gun 

to shoot. 

“But through the excitement, 

he pulled the clip release, 

and a cold clip of shells 

fell out of his gun.” 

After that, he said, he heard 

on the jeep’s radio from his 

captain outside of town to 

get out of there, “because 

they’re circling the tank destroyers 

up around the hills 

and they’re going to level this 

town with high artillery.” 

The three of them ran to 

the jeep and “we shot up and 

out of town.” 

“I saw bullets splatter from 

the road,” he recalled. “Luckily 

none of us were hit.” 

He said after they made it 

out of the town, “about a 

thousand rounds” were shot 

into that town. 

“After they’d done that, 

here coming up over the hill 

up from the edge of town was 

a big white sheet on a long 

pole,” he said. “It was a German 

soldier waving it back 

and forth, and behind him 

were about 250 German soldiers 

with their hands behind 

them.” 

In an interview at his 

home, Thomas remembered 

a time when “one of our boys 

went to the bathroom and 

never came back. We found 

him some time later, all shot 

up.” 

Thomas also took part in 

the April 1945 liberation of 

Dachau concentration camp, 

which opened March 22, 

1933, and was officially described 

by Heinrich Himmler, 

Munich’s chief of police at 

the time, as the first concentration 

camp for political 

prisoners. Many royal figures 

were imprisoned there, from 

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna 

of Russia to future Prime 

Minister Alexander Papagos 

of Greece. 

Gary Thomas, Fred’s oldest 

son, said he’d never forget 

what his father told him 

about the liberation. 

“He said those that didn’t 

survive were stacked up like 

‘cords of wood,’” Thomas 

said. “He pretty much said it 

was a horrific scene.” 

Gen. Eisenhower issued a 

communiqué over the capture 

of the camp, saying 

American forces “liberated 

and mopped up the infamous 

concentration camp at 

Dachau.” Roughly 32,000 

prisoners were liberated and 

300 SS camp guards were 

quickly neutralized. 

When the fighting in Germany 

was over, Thomas 

stayed in the country and finished 

out his occupation. 

During that time, he was in a 

headquarters outfit of the 

645th Tank Destroyer Battalion 

in a messenger service. 

He delivered letters from 

home all through the Swiss 

Alps to soldiers stationed 

there. 

Discharged in 1946, 

Thomas said in his interview 

21 years ago that he felt the 

war was just, but he might 

have made some changes if 

he had been calling the shots. 

“I thought, after coming 

home and being discharged, 

after reading all the books on 

all the battles in World War II, 

there’d be some things that I 

would have done differently 

if I had been in charge,” he 

said with a laugh. 

While Fred Thomas helped 

fight to end the atrocities in 

Europe, his brother, B. Eugene 

“Gene” Thomas, a private 

in the Army Air Corps., 

FRED THOMAS, in an 

interview last month. 

staged a one-man mission 

during the invasion of Iwo 

Jima. 

Gene, Candy Streams’ father, 

was with the U.S. forces 

in the Pacific in 1945. He was 

first with Task Force 38, but 

was assigned to Force 44 for 

the invasion of Iwo Jima. He 

was on Iwo Jima during the 

iconic flag-raising atop 

Mount Suribachi. 

“Over 50,000 Marines went 

in to Iwo Jima, and he went 

in at D plus 5,” said Gene’s 

nephew Jack Rickard, 82, a 

retired Air Force major who 

served in the Korean Conflict 

and Vietnam War. 

Gene’s purpose, Rickard 

said, was “to set up a radio 

beam to run from Iwo Jima 

over Tokyo where the B-29 

bombers could fly over Iwo 

Jima and fly outward on that 

beam that would take them 

right over Tokyo.” 

“They started doing the 

carpet-bombing of Tokyo 

and other places in Japan,” 

Rickard said. 

Gene built himself a small 

hut down underneath the 

antenna where he stayed by 

himself, subjecting himself 

to 100,000 watts of radio 

waves. Gene passed away in 

1958 at age 42 from cancer, 

which Rickard believes resulted 

from exposure to 

those radio waves. 

But his role in Iwo Jima 

wasn’t all for naught: He was 

partially responsible for 

bringing the war to an end. 

“He had nothing to do with 

the bombing of Hiroshima or 

Nagasaki; he had nothing to 

do with that, but his radio 

beam — if they wanted to 

come back from Japan — 

that beam would bring them 

back to Iwo Jima and on their 

way,” Rickard said. 

“He did it all by himself — 

he had no help,” he added, 

saying that Gene “was a brain 

when it came to electronics 

back in those days.” 

A letter Gene had written 

home to his parents Benjamin 

W. and Eva Thomas 

was published in September 

1945 in the Marion Center 

Independent, detailing his 

accounts during his time in 

Japan. 

“I spent one of the longest 

nights of my life that night 

(Feb. 27, 1945). My range 

transmitter is built in a large 

trailer that weighs 15,000 

pounds. So a bulldozer 

pulled it up on the beach, 

and that’s where I spent the 

next 36 hours,” an excerpt of 

the letter read. 

“The rest of my outfit didn’t 

get ashore, so I didn’t know 

where to go, or have any 

means of getting there. The 

(Japanese) still held the site 

where I was supposed to set 

up, so I just dug in and waited.” 

His letter went on to say 

that he did finally get his 

range set up and was able to 

send a beam “right over 

Tokyo to bring the B-29s back 

to Iwo, and on another beam, 

on to Saipan.” 

Gene also wrote of his encounters 

with the enemy. 

“Today, two other fellows 

and I went up to the other 

end of the island to take 

some pictures and went into 

some pretty rough territory, 

like darn fools,” he wrote. 

“We were snooping around 

and we came face to face 

with a live (Japanese soldier). 

We weren’t 10 feet from him. 

He just sat there shaking like 

a leaf. And we stood there 

doing the same thing.” 

He wrote that none of them 

had guns, “and evidently he 

didn’t either.” They went 

back to get their guns and 

brought back six armed military 

police and “looked for 

him for two hours but we 

couldn’t find him.” 

Gene was decorated for his 

mission and congratulated 

by Col. (Gordon) Blake, “the 

big boy himself.” 

“In fact, he shook hands 

with me,” he wrote. “So much 

for that. It didn’t seem to help 

me much when my services 

were no longer needed.” 

Gene also had an excellent 

report sent in by the flight officers 

“for keeping them on 

the air and saving several B- 

29s. I was the only radio man 

that had previous experience 

on that type of equipment.” 

While Fred and Gene 

worked alongside their fellow 

servicemen, their brother, 

Sim Thomas, a Navy seaman, 

was drafted in 1945 after the 

attacks on Hiroshima and 

Nagasaki. Because he was a 

mortician (his parents 

owned Thomas Funeral 

Home in Marion Center), he 

was taken to the South Pacific 

to help disinter the dead 

soldiers there and bring 

them back to the United 

States. Rickard and Streams 

didn’t have any additional information 

regarding Sim’s 

time in the war, but Streams 

expressed her gratitude and 

pride for her family’s military 

roots. 

She said her grandmother 

kept diaries while her sons 

were overseas and would 

send them boxes of food and 

her canned goods. She wrote 

down everything she sent 

them. 

Their mother also had 

three silver stars displayed in 

her window at the same time. 

The stars meant she had a 

family member overseas. 

“There was an emblem, I’d 

say about 6 by 12 inches, 

(that had) a red border and 

was white inside, and inside 

you’d put stars,” Rickard said. 

“The blue stars meant they 

were in the service, the silver 

stars meant they were overseas” 

and the gold stars 

meant they were killed in action. 

Eva Thomas was lucky 

to never have been what they 

called a “Gold Star Mother.” 

In fact, none of her sons were 

wounded during their time 

in World War II. 

“I’m just proud that they all 

were in World War II, and 

what my grandma must have 

gone through with three boys 

(in the service and overseas),” 

Streams said. 

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“YOU WERE on paradise. No one ever dreamed of a war, you know. You were just putting in your time, get 

home, get discharged. You never thought it would happen.” 

Joe Krolick 

Clymer man remembers day of infamy 



For a time, Joseph Krolick 

thought he’d found paradise. 

Then the Japanese began 

dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor, 

three miles from the U.S. Army’s 

Fort Shafter, where he was stationed 

on Hawaii’s Oahu island. 

“You were on paradise,” he said. 

“No one ever dreamed of a war, 

you know. You were just putting in 

your time, get home, get discharged. 

You never thought it 

would happen.” 

On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, 

though, it happened. 

Hundreds of Japanese fighter 

planes attacked the naval base, 

killing more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers. 

That was nearly 71 years ago, but 

it’s still a vivid memory for the 91- 

year-old Clymer resident. 

“I was in church that Sunday and 

Mass was about half over and I 

heard this whistling sound over 

top the church back into the 

mountain. … The poor buggers 

that were left on ship — six, eight, 

whatever amount it took to operate 

a gun, maybe one or two guns 

— they were shooting wild and 

that one shell come flying up 

above the church and up in the 

mountain. So a GI came running 

in and went up to the altar and 

whispered to the chaplain and he 

turned around, he said, ‘Pearl Harbor’s 

being attacked by the Japanese.’” 

Soldiers poured out of the 

church to see the harbor covered 

in black smoke. Traffic snarled the 

highway to the harbor, as GIs who 

had been on leave rushed to get 

back to their bases. In the chaos, a 

Japanese bomber flew overhead. 

Soldiers in his outfit fired from a 

30-caliber machine gun. 

“They opened up on him. I said, 

‘You crazy buggers.’ … ‘He’s going 

to turn around and come back and 

drop the (bomb) on the truck and 

kill us all,’” he said. “But he went 

over towards Hickam Field and 

they tell me he didn’t drop it on 

Hickam Field, he dropped it on 

Rodgers airfield next to the Army 

Air Force.” 

That night, soldiers took their 

battle positions, stringing up a trip 

wire strewn with soda and beer 

cans around the perimeter as a 

warning system against any Japanese 

soldiers advancing on foot, 

Krolick recalled. 

“Here the mongooses would hit 

it and the guards would open up,” 

he said. “You didn’t dare walk 

around, and them guards would 

open up. So if you had to do No. 2, 

you took a chance of getting down 

to the latrine. If No. 1, you just did 

it behind your pup tent. … Then 

the ocean, you know the whitecaps, 

it looked like somebody 

JOE KROLICK, a Pearl Harbor survivor, and some artifacts he saved from the war, including a photo of himself in uniform, at right. 

coming in on a surfboard or swimming, 

the guards would open up 

all night long. We didn’t sleep all 

night. That was some night.” 

Krolick was only 20 years old. 

Born in Centre County, he lived 

in Rossister from the age of 6 until 

he enlisted in the U.S. Army with 

three friends in January 1941, 

lured by three square meals a day 

and $21 monthly pay. 

“It was hard to find to a job,” he 

said. “Just like now, you can’t buy a 

job.” 

He spent the bulk of his military 

career on Oahu as an observer, 

monitoring the height finder crucial 

to the sights of anti-aircraft 

guns before ending his service 

“mopping up” in Guam after the 

U.S. Marines — “They’d take 

these islands, move in, break their 

(the enemy’s) backs and move to 

the next one” — declared it secure. 

Nonetheless, 8,000 Japanese occupied 

the island. Krolick spent 

about a month there, taking turns 

with a fellow corporal, leading 

a 21-man unit in a hunt for Japanese 

soldiers. 

“He’d never run across them,” 

Krolick said, “but I would have 

luck.” 

He returned to the States in 1944, 

making it to his family’s home, 

now in Clymer, the day after 

Christmas. 

“There were flags in the windows 

and Gold Star Mothers and everything,” 

he said. “It was a patriotic 

town, still is. We have a very good 

bunch of people here.” 

He worked 11 years at McCreary 

Tire (now Specialty Tire) before 

taking “odd jobs” and then working 

as a coal miner. He’s been Clymer’s 

mayor, police chief, constable 

and a member of borough 

council. 

The Pennsylvania State Association 

of Boroughs has recognized 

him for more than 20 years of service 

as a councilman and he’s currently 

filling a board vacancy. He 

also belongs to Clymer’s American 

Legion and Veterans of Foreign 

Wars post. 

“I just love the people, love the 

town,” he said. “I call it my town.” 

He’s the oldest among his two 

living siblings, and said his health 

is “pretty good.” He cares for his 

wife, Mary, who suffers from 

rheumatoid arthritis. His wife for 

66 years, they have two children: 

Jo Ellen and Joe Jr. He enjoys mowing 

his lawn and tending to his 

flowers and garden, growing cucumbers, 

tomatoes, corn and 

beets. 

“I give everything away,” he said. 

Krolick called his military time a 

good experience — “It made me a 

man” — teaching him respect and 

discipline. He never had an interest 

in going back to the island and 

only has met two other Pearl Harbor 

survivors. 

Decades later, he can’t shake his 

doubts about what really happened 

with the Pearl Harbor attack, 

which drew the U.S. into 

World War II. He is convinced soldiers 

died for reasons never fully 

explained by the government, and 

hoped his view would be published. 

Prior to the attack, taking 


his turn on the command post 

switchboard, Krolick said a previous 

order to gather for joint maneuvers 

was canceled without reason. 

He wants to know why. During 

exercises, he said, battleships 

would have been in the harbor and 

soldiers would have been manning 

anti-aircraft guns loaded with 

live ammunition. 

“We’d have knocked every damn 

one,” he said. “They were just flying 

around at their leisure, dropping 

their bombs. We could have 

got a lot of them, the poor boys 

wouldn’t have had to die on that 

ship.” 

Conspiracy theories have persisted 

since shortly after the attack, 

among them that President 

Roosevelt knew of the coming attack 

and did nothing, a claim 

Krolick believes. 

“You get your history book out 

and you look back,” he said. “Every 

time there’s a depression, recession, 

what do they do They kick 

up a war.” 

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VARIOUS VIEWS of the USS Clymer, both in dry dock and 

at sea. 

Hall displays 

artifacts from 

USS Clymer 

The walls of the Clymer Borough building are 

lined with glass cases, filled with flags, uniforms, 

photographs and other memorabilia 

dating from World War II. 

And everything was donated by veterans of 

the USS George Clymer, a World War II-era 

transport ship that, like the borough, was 

named after one of the signers of the Declaration 

of Independence. 

“They called it the ‘Lucky George,’” said John 

Busovicki, Indiana County historian and a Clymer 

resident. 

Clymer’s relationship with the USS George 

Clymer veterans began in 1994, when veteran 

Saul Knight, looking for a location for a reunion 

of the transport survivors, called the borough 

office to ask about holding one there. 

Clymer welcomed them with open arms, 

planning a festival (now continuing as the annual 

Clymer Days festival in September) and a 

parade and opening their homes as places to 

stay. 

“They were just overwhelmed by the generosity 

of the borough,” Busovicki said. 

The next year students at Penns Manor were 

assigned pen pals among the veterans — a relationship 

that led to the veterans establishing a 

scholarship fund that provides one girl and one 

boy a $500 scholarship annually. 

The veterans returned several times for reunions 

in Clymer. And they brought gifts. They 

donated a sailor’s uniform, flags that were flown 

on the USS George Clymer and photographs 

and yearbooks from the voyages they made. 

The borough also displays nameplates from 

the ship, loaned by the Navy after it was decommissioned. 

The veterans no longer come to Clymer; 2011 

was their last visit, as age and dwindling numbers 

made the trip impossible. But the scholarship 

fund lives on. 

And the many pieces of memorabilia remain 

in the glass cases around the room. 

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Vet’s wife 

cherishes 

memories 



Bill Stivison didn’t talk much about 

the war. Not until the last 10 years of 

his life, when he and fellow veterans 

decided people were starting to forget. 

When he did start talking, it was always 

collectively: “we” instead of “I.” 

“They were a family,” said Edna Stivison, 

his wife, of the Rangers who fought 

to retake France during the Second 

World War. “They came to the conclusion 

that there wasn’t enough being said 

about World War II.” 

Stivison may have spoken collectively, 

but his superiors recognized his individual 

courage. 

He was awarded a Silver Star for his actions 

and the Purple Heart, among other 

medals. 

Stivison died in 2007. But his wife told 

pieces of his story, and interviews from 

before he died tell others. 

A lifelong Homer City resident, Stivison’s 

ancestors fought in the Revolutionary 

War and the Civil War. His two brothers, 

Raymond and Howard, also fought in 

World War II. 

According to an interview with Wayne 

Jennings for the Homer City Historical 

Society, Stivison joined the National 

Guard when he was 17 years old. 

He moved to the Army in 1941, then 

signed up to join the Second Ranger Battalion. 

He trained in physical exercises including 

running, log tossing, hand-to-hand 

combat and judo, as well as in explosives 

and weaponry, his wife said. 

After arriving in England, the battalion 

trained under British commandos; in 

particular, they practiced climbing cliffs 

in preparation for D-Day. 

He was a staff sergeant. 

And so on June 6, 1944, Stivison and his 

battalion arrived on the coast of Normandy. 

Edna Stivison was there, years later, 

visiting the beach where her husband 

fought. 

“It is unbelievable,” she said. “(I don’t 

know) how any of those boys survived 

any of it.” 

The Rangers’ mission was to scale the 

chalk cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, take out 

Nazi guns along the coastline, and establish 

an allied command post. Three companies 

— 200 men — climbed the cliffs. 

After 24 hours, 125 of them were either 

injured or killed, according to an article 

that ran on June 6, 1984, in The Indiana 

Evening Gazette. 

“I was just going along, doing what had 

to be done as the day went on,” Stivison 

said in that article. “I saw guys fall, some 

of them got hurt. 

“It was just like practice, only they were 

shooting at us. They splattered us with 20 

millimeter guns. All you could do, 

though, if you fell, was to just get another 

rope and keep going. … They didn’t make 

it pleasant for us.” 

Stivison came ashore on a DUKW, a 

landing craft equipped with ladders from 

London fire companies. He manned two 

machine guns at the top of the ladder, 

and the plan was to provide cover for his 

BILL STIVISON 

fellow Rangers scaling the cliffs. 

But the pebbly beach had been destroyed 

by bombing and it was impossible 

to stabilize the vehicle. 

“(It was) like a pendulum swinging 

back and forth,” Edna Stivison said. 

Afraid of shooting his own comrades by 

mistake, Stivison abandoned the ladder 

to scale the cliffs instead. 

“Within an hour we had the tops of the 

cliffs and were moving out,” he said in 

the 1984 article. “We made them know 

we were there. A German said afterwards 

that it was a calm, foggy morning. Then 

everything exploded.” 

Over the next few days, the Rangers 

held the cliff tops while other companies 

swung around, pinning the German 

armies between them. 

“We knew it was going to be tough. But 

everyone had a positive attitude. There 

was absolutely no hesitation. It had to be 

done, and we were going to do it,” he 

said. 

Stivison escaped injury on D-Day. 

Those came later as he moved across 

France: twice by enemy fire, once by 

friendly fire. 

His Silver Star came later, too. A citation 

framed with the medals in the Stivison 

home states that he was awarded the 

honor based on his actions on March 30, 

1945, when the section he was leading 

encountered surprise enemy fire. 

He led an attack “so rapid and determined” 

that the outer defenses were 

overwhelmed; they continued toward 

the inner defenses but encountered 

heavy fire. He exposed himself to the 

danger twice to carry injured men to 

safety, and when his section was told to 

fall back, he stayed, covering their retreat. 

He was discharged three months later, 

in June. 

On Feb. 7, 1948, he took his sister’s 

friend on a date; he and Edna were married 

in September and had been married 

nearly 58 years when he passed away five 

years ago. 

Back in Homer City, Stivison joined the 

Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American 

Legion. He volunteered with the 

Homer City Volunteer Fire Department, 

serving as chief. And he was the post 

master for 20 years. 

He also passed on his patriotism to his 

family. His grandson, Staff Sgt. Glen Stivison 

Jr., died serving in Afghanistan in 

2009. Three other family members are 

serving now. 

“The Stivison family has been in more 

than enough wars,” Edna Stivison said. 

Bill Stivison died on April 2, 2007. He 

went to bed Sunday night, but never 

woke up. He was 87. 

“We had such a good life together, I 

couldn’t wish him back,” Edna Stivison 

said. 

For prof, 

Rangers 

hold deep 

meaning 



Dr. Ruth Shirey has been studying 

the histories of various wars since 

junior high, when she started reading 

about the Civil War. 

But of particular interest to the retired 

IUP geography professor is the 

study of the Second Ranger Battalion 

in World War II; her uncle fought 

with the Rangers. 

“There are books now, but there’s 

no way you can get all the detail together, 

because the story is different 

with every soldier,” she said. 

Shirey said the Rangers were special 

forces. The Second Battalion was 

sent to Point du Hoc, France, to take 

out a cluster of six 155 mm guns on 

the top of the cliffs that the Germans 

had trained on Utah Beach. 

There were complications almost 

immediately. The commanding officer 

realized as they approached the 

shoreline that they were three miles 

east of the cliffs they were to climb, 

and so they turned parallel to the 

coastline for half an hour. 

“The whole time they were taking 

fire from the top of those cliffs,” she 

said. 

When they tried to land on the 

DUKWs (amphibious trucks) with 

ladders to return the fire they were 

taking from the cliffs, they found 

they were unable to stabilize the vehicles. 

One of the ships pulled up 

close instead to return fire. 

Shirey said the cliff attack was a 

surprise. 

“It didn’t even occur to them that 

anyone would try to climb up the 

cliffs,” she said. 

But once the rangers reached the 

top of the cliffs, they realized the 

guns had been pulled inland. They 

moved across the cliff top, battling 

the Nazis they found, until they 

found the guns pulled further inland 

and disabled them. 

“That didn’t make much of a difference 

on Omaha Beach, but there 

is some reason to believe that Utah 

Beach was easier (to take) in part because 

they took out the guns,” she 

said. 

The Rangers remained on the cliff 

tops for several days, without much 

food. 

“The fighting is very fierce, a lot of 

them have lost their lives or are 

wounded,” she said. “They’re out 

there on their own.” 

By the time another company 

broke through to reach them, they 

had run out of ammunition and 

were using German weapons. 

After D-Day the Rangers continued 

across France. Shirey called 

them the “point of the spear.” When 

the war finally ended, the men of the 

Second Battalion were sent home 

together, rather than individually, as 

recognition of their efforts on the 

front line. 

“I ENJOYED what I could during the war. 

And I’m happy I fought for a good 

cause, and it paid off.” 

George Barenick, 

Army veteran 

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GEORGE BARENICK, 90, did a lot of traveling during his 

time in the war — and chauffeured some important people. 

Army sent man 

on trip of lifetime 

By NICOLE ROSER 

nroser@indianagazette.net 

It has been said that everyone has at least one great 

story to tell — or two, or three. But not everyone can 

say their stories include chauffeuring an Army major 

around a foreign country during a time of war, crossing 

an ocean on a boat with a respected war leader, and living 

in a chateau where George Washington reportedly 

once stayed. 

Told by George Barenick, a veteran of the U.S. Army, 

those were his stories documenting the time he spent 

serving his country during World War II. 

Born and raised in Rossiter, Barenick, 90, said he was 

drafted into the service and fought in the war for 42 

months. 

During that time, he said he received many opportunities 

that he wouldn’t have had if he hadn’t been chosen 

to serve. 

A corporal, Barenick said his job in the Army was to 

drive his major around Europe, and to knock on doors 

and tell residents to leave their homes when their town 

was going to be taken over by American soldiers. 

While chauffeuring his major, and later his general, 

too, he said he got to visit a lot of different sites. 

“I got to do a lot of sightseeing, (went to places) I 

would have never seen,” he said. 

Given another chance at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, 

Barenick said during the war he also had the privilege 

of traveling on a boat with Winston Churchill, and 

sleeping just a few rooms down from him. 

“It was something to see, because he was so famous.” 

While stationed in Europe, Barenick remembers staying 

in castles in Germany, France, England and Austria. 

At one point during the war, he said he also got to live in 

a chateau that was said to have been used by George 

Washington. 

When the war was over, he said he was excited to return 

to the States, because he hadn’t had a vacation 

since he was stationed in California, before going overseas. 

“I was happy to be home after 3½ years,” Barenick 

said. “That’s a long time.” 

After the war, Barenick was honorably discharged 

from the military, and later retired from U.S. Steel in 

Ambridge. He married his wife, Marie, on May 16, 1992, 

and they reside in Indiana. 

“I enjoyed what I could during the war,” Barenick said. 

“And I’m happy I fought for a good cause, and it paid 

off.” 

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JOSEPH JONES’ B-24 crew survived 37 bombing missions over Europe. 


Bomber crew survived 

close calls over Europe 

By JASON L. LEVAN 

jlevan@indianagazette.net 

As a nose gunner in a B-24 bomber during 

World War II, Joseph Jones had to 

have nerves of steel. 

His vantage point in the front of the underbelly 

of the Dutchess was of enemy aircraft 

coming straight at him. His job was to fire 

straight ahead to shoot them out of the sky. If 

an aircraft was coming from the side, he had 

to rely on another of the six gunners aboard 

the plane to get the job done. 

His nerves must have been severely frayed, 

though, when, on one bombing mission, the 

Plexiglass in front of him exploded from 

enemy anti-aircraft fire. Jones was burned 

everywhere except for what his mask covered. 

Jones, now 92, was involved in 37 bomber 

missions. The average B-24 crew carried out 

25, said his son Gene Jones, who proudly 

told the story recently of his father’s experience 

in the war. 

He served in Italy and northern Africa from 

1941 to 1944 after enlisting in the Army Air 

Corps, now known as the Air Force. The 1938 

Saltsburg graduate was part of the 451st 

Bomber Group. Each B-24, known as the 

Liberator, required a crew of 10: six gunners, 

a pilot and co-pilot, a bombardier and a navigator. 

Originally from Nowrytown, outside of 

Saltsburg, Jones also faced at least one other 

harrowing incident when his plane was 

forced down in enemy territory and rendered 

inoperable. Because Jones and his 

crew didn’t return to base in Italy, they were 

presumed dead, and a telegram was prepared 

to notify his parents of his demise. 

Meanwhile, Gene said, one of the crew 

members was able to fashion a piece to repair 

the aircraft so they could fly back to 

base. 

They made it just in time; the telegram 

hadn’t yet been sent, and Jones got the pleasure 

of ripping it up, Gene said. 

Then, while the crew was on R&R, another 

crew that was flying the Dutchess in their 

place was shot down, and the plane was destroyed. 

Back home, Joseph Jones’ mother 

worked at Federal Laboratories in Tunnelton, 

packaging parachutes for the soldiers. 

“She very well could have packed one of 

his chutes,” Gene said. 

When he returned home in late 1944, 

Jones took a job in the coal mines, retiring in 

1985. 

“He worked his whole career underground,” 

Gene said. 

As far as Jones can figure, just one other 

man from the crew is still living. 

As those numbers dwindle, Gene recognizes 

how important it is to tell his father’s 

story. He also knows how much his father’s 

military experience was a part of his life. 

A closely knit group, the 451st Bomber 

Group has issued a quarterly newsletter, updating 

the goings on of these airmen from 

the “Greatest Generation.” But as time has 

marched on, Gene said, the newsletter was 

published less frequently and, just recently, 

his father was dismayed to discover the 

newsletter has ceased publication. 

In an attempt to recapture some of his father’s 

memories, Gene said he bought a pair 

of tickets to fly with his father on one of the 

few remaining B-24s when it made an appearance 

in 2006 at Arnold Palmer Airport in 

Latrobe. 

But his father didn’t show that day, Gene 

said: “I don’t think he wanted to remember.” 

He was forced to give his other ticket to his 

brother. 

Gene tried again a few years later at Jimmy 

Stewart Airport as part of Airport Awareness 

Days. This time, Joseph Jones agreed to go 

along. 

“He was pretty quiet on that flight,” Gene 

said. 


JONES’ PLANE, The Dutchess, is seen under the wing of the airplane in the foreground. 

By JEREMY HARTLEY 


Born in Penn Run in 1917, 

Maynard Amond, 95, 

was drafted into the 

Army in 1942 at age 24. Nicknamed 

“Red” due to his red 

hair, Amond married his wife, 

Alda Lee, 92, a mere four 

months prior to receiving his 

draft notice. 

“They were doing a lot of 

drafting (at the time),” 

Amond said, “and whenever 

your number came up, you 

were in.” 

Before the draft, he had 

been working in a general 

store in nearby McIntyre. 

Following his initial training 

in boot camp, he was sent to 

Army electrical school in 

Chicago. Once finished, he 

was sent to North Carolina for 

two months of training in 

radio and communication. 

Upon completion, he was assigned 

a communications 

position in the 535th Anti-Aircraft 

Artillery Battalion in California. 

Manning 90 mm 

guns, the unit was responsible 

for shooting down enemy 

aircraft. As head of the communications 

for the unit’s 

headquarters company, he 

quickly rose to the rank of 

staff sergeant. 

The battalion was initially 

sent to England to prepare for 

the upcoming D-Day invasion. 

The trip took 12 days by 

ship because of the erratic 

sailing pattern used to avoid 

the German submarines that 

patrolled the area. Amond 

then spent several months 

gathering equipment and 

staging for the invasion. 

Amond’s unit was originally 

scheduled to land on Utah 

Beach at 5:30 p.m. on D-Day, 

June 6, 1944, but instead 

landed at 10:30 a.m. Due to 

the confusion during the 

landing and a driving mistake 

while unloading the landing 

boat, the truck containing all 

of the unit’s communication 

equipment was lost in the 

water. 

“So I was sitting there on 

the side of a hill for a month 

waiting for my other equipment 

to come in,” he said. 

In the meantime, anti-aircraft 

guns were set up nearby 

to protect the beach from 

German aircraft that tried to 

bomb the invasion forces. 

When Gen. George S. Patton 

arrived in France, 

Amond’s unit was assigned to 

follow him on the various 

campaigns as Patton “cleaned 

house,” providing anti-aircraft 

support wherever needed. 

Amond, though, did not 

get to personally meet the 

famed general. 

Amond found himself behind 

enemy lines on several 

occasions. One time while 

running telephone lines during 

the Battle of the Bulge, 

Amond and his two men 

learned the Germans had 

broken through the lines by 

as much as a half a mile. He 

had no idea he was behind 

enemy lines at the time. He 

and his men managed to find 

a team of American medics 

who were operating nearby. 

Amond and his men buried 

their guns and donned the 

armbands of the medics, disguising 

themselves. They 

Gazette 

ALDA AND Maynard “Red” Amond were married just months 

before he received his draft notice. 

THE AMONDS in 1942. 

knew Germans would not kill 

medics, preferring to take 

them prisoner instead. Three 

or four nights later, Amond 

and his men were able to 

cross back and reunite with 

their unit. 

Amond said he felt very little 

fear during the whole ordeal: 

“It was just a job that we 

had to get done,” he said. “It 

was easy to keep a clear head 

when you viewed it as simply 

the work that needed to get 

done.” 

It was easy to get confused 

during that time. Communication 

was limited, confined 

mostly to telephone. Radio 

communication was limited 

as well. It was easy for men to 

get separated from their units 

and not be aware of major 

changes in battle, such as the 

line moving. 

“There were a lot of telephone 

lines strung during 

that war,” Amond said. 

Amond’s unit found itself in 

significant danger once it 

moved into southern Germany. 

While crossing the Ludendorff 

Bridge, also known 

as the Bridge at Remagen, 

they learned the bridge had 

been wired with explosives 

but not connected to a detonator. 

Once they crossed it, a 

pontoon bridge was set up by 

the American forces. While 

guarding the bridge, German 

aircraft strafed the bridge, trying 

to destroy it. During the 

three weeks Amond’s unit occupied 

the bridge, one of the 

gun sections was bombarded, 

killing nine men. Amond was 

about 100 feet away during 

the bombardment, which 

damaged the building he had 

been staying in. The bridge 

was eventually destroyed, but 

all the American forces had 

already crossed it. 

Once the war was over, 

Amond and his men were 

sent to La Havre, France, to 

await transportation home. 

Amond acted as assistant 

manager for the officer’s mess 

hall for four months. 

During Maynard’s time in 

Europe, Alda worked as a 

clerk in a store. She explained 

that during the war, there 

wasn’t nearly as much press 

coverage as there is these 

days. There was no television 

and very little radio. People 

simply didn’t know what was 

going on overseas. 

“I was darn lucky,” Amond 

said. “The Germans were just 

as much afraid of us as we 

were of them. They didn’t 

want to die any more than we 

did.” 

Amond and his wife 

opened a retail jewelry store 

in Blairsville in 1953 and sold 

it in 1983 when they retired. 

They now reside in St. Andrew’s 

Village. He and Alda recently 

celebrated their 70th 

wedding anniversary. 

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By MARGARET HARPER 

mharper@indianagazette.net 

When Virginia Parker 

joined the Women’s 

Army Auxiliary Corps 

in 1942, her family didn’t approve. 

She was making a mistake, 

her parents said. The 

Army was no place for 

women. 

But Parker wouldn’t listen. 

Her mind was made up. 

“I was about 23, so I was 

going to do my own thing,” 

she said. 

Leaving behind a job at an 

insurance company in Johnstown, 

Parker set out with the 

WAAC to see the world. And 

now, at 94, she looks back on 

the memories made during 

her three-year stint with 

fondness. 

There were trips to 

Casablanca, Morocco; Algiers, 

Algeria; Caserta, Italy; Dijon 

and Marseille, France; and 

Southampton, England. 

“It was quite an experience,” 

Parker said. 

Parker worked in the Army’s 

Criminal Investigations Division, 

performing office work. 

Most of that work was classified 

as top secret, she said. 

She earned $21 a month 

while in the U.S., and $100 to 

$125 a month while she was 

stationed overseas. 

A typical day was spent at 

the office, and afterward there 

was entertainment provided 

by the Army, such as dances 

and music. 

She developed many 

friendships along the way, but 

she has outlived most of her 

friends from that time. 

“I met a lot of wonderful 

people,” she said. 

Her favorite place to be stationed 

was Marseille. They 

lived in a house there, with 

nicer accommodations than 

the barracks. And they were 

able to “get around more.” 

She was only ever scared a 

few times. 

“I think when you’re young, 

you think nothing can happen 

to you,” she said. 

One of Parker’s closest calls 

was during her time on the 

Empress of Japan, a ship. The 

group, about 50 of which were 

women, had set out from 

Camp Patrick Henry in Virginia 

to an unknown destination 

overseas. 

“We didn’t know where we 

were going,” she said. 

At some point during the 

trip, an announcement came 

over the PA system, telling all 

passengers to go to their bunk 

and keep their life vests on. 

A submarine was said to be 

following the ship, she said. 

There was a chance they 

could be torpedoed. 

Thankfully, the submarine 

did not attack. 

During her time in Dijon, 

she wasn’t too far away from 

where the Germans were invading 

Belgium. President 

Dwight Eisenhower called 

and gave orders for her office 

to be evacuated. 

The women worked all 

night to pack up the office, 

but in the morning they received 

orders to stay instead. 

For her work with the 

WAAC, Parker received several 

medals. She has a Bronze 

Star, Good Conduct, Service 

Medal, European/African/ 

Mid Eastern Campaign, WWII 

Victory Medal and Honorable 

Service Lapel Button. But she 

didn’t get her medals upon 

discharge. Her daughter obtained 

the medals after a long 

confirmation process, working 

with the late Congressman 

John Murtha. 

Parker’s time with the WAAC 

ended in 1946. She came 

home, reunited with family 

and friends, got her job back, 

got married and had five children. 

She would do it all over 

again if she had the chance, 

she said. But, she said, “I’d 

have to be 50 years younger.” 

TERI ENCISO/Gazette 

VIRGINIA PARKER held a photograph of herself from her 

days in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Some of the 

medals she earned are pictured below. 

Man lived to tell 

tale of obituary 



John Britsky didn’t talk 

much about the time he 

spent as a paratrooper 

during World War II. 

But he certainly came 

home after the war, married 

and raised three daughters in 

Indiana County. 

So it was a surprise when 

his daughters found his name 

listed on a memorial wall in 

Nanty Glo, Cambria County, 

for local men who died serving 

in the war. 

Jackie Myers said her sister, 

Trish Johnson, saw his name 

on the wall. Later, they found 

his death listed in the Sept. 

21, 1944, edition of the Nanty 

Glo Journal. 

“Vintondale Soldier Killed 

in Action in Italy Last Month,” 

it says, saying that his parents 

received a telegram from the 

War Department saying Britsky 

had been killed in Italy on 

Aug. 15, 1944. They had previously 

been told that he was 

missing. 

But Myers said her father, a 

private with the 517th Parachute 

Regimental Combat 

Team, had been captured 

after landing behind enemy 

lines in Italy. He remained a 

prisoner of war, though 

she did not know for how 

long. 

He was listed as being 

discharged in the Sept. 

25, 1945, edition of The 

Indiana Evening Gazette. 

Myers said her father 

never told them 

about being reported 

dead or his family’s 

response when he 

returned home. 

He died in 2009. 

BRITSKY’S 

“death notice” 

was printed in 

the Nanty Glo 

Journal from 

Sept. 21, 1944. 

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Military career afforded rewards, hardships 



Daniel Terlion first enlisted 

as a private in the 

Army on April 25, 1942. 

By the time he retired from 

the service more than 20 

years later, the Heilwood 

resident was an Air Force 

staff sergeant who’d seen 

tours of duty in Africa and 

Italy during World War II 

and later Korea, Japan and 

Greenland. 

“There wasn’t a lot of opportunity 

here,” his daughter 

Diane Terlion said. “The 

military life suited him. … 

He came from a very proud 

family.” 

Daniel Terlion was the son 

of Samuel and Nathalie Terlion, 

of Heilwood. His father 

worked in coal mines, but 

every day he put on a white 

shirt as soon as he got 

home. 

He passed on that love of 

order and appearance to his 

son. 

While Daniel Terlion 

fudged his birth certificate 

to work briefly in the coal 

mines, he enlisted in the 

Army in 1942. 

DANIEL TERLION 


ANGELINE TERLION awaited a letter from her husband who 

was overseas. 

So did his brothers. A 

Sept. 20, 1944, photo in 

what was then called The 

Indiana Evening Gazette 

shows Terlion flanked by his 

brothers, Army Sgt. Peter 

Terlion and Private George 

Terlion, under the heading 

“Three Terlion Brothers in 

Service.” 

But after the war ended, 

Daniel Terlion re-enlisted, 

this time with the Air Force. 

“’If I stay in (the service), 

we’re made,’” Angeline Terlion 

remembered him saying 

shortly after their wedding 

in 1952. 

She grew up on a farm on 

Nolo Road, and while Angeline 

wasn’t married to him 

during the war, she knew his 

family. 

One day as she stepped off 

the bus in Heilwood after a 

day of working at the Indiana 

Macaroni Factory, he 

stepped down from the 

porch of the company store 

and asked to walk her the 

mile home. 

Their courtship transpired 

through letters, and they 

were married by a justice of 

the peace in 1952. 

Diane was born not much 

later, and was just 6 months 

old when her father left 

again for another tour of 

duty. 

“It was not easy, believe 

me,” Angeline Terlion said. 

“When he got back she 

could walk and talk.” 

Over the following years 

he continued in the Air 

Force, writing letters and 

bringing home gifts from 

faraway places. 

“I still have a bracelet he 

gave me,” Diane Terlion 

said. She also has a red scarf 

from Japan. 

Her mother has a nightgown 

of Japanese silk — she 

wore it once and has kept it 

in her cedar chest ever 

since. 

What she doesn’t have are 

the letters. He wrote often, 

always to “My Darling Wife,” 

but Angeline Terlion said 

she never thought to save 

them. 

But the transitions of 

home and away were hard. 

She got used to caring for 

her family alone, and when 

he came home “I didn’t want 

him to boss me,” she said. 

Money was tight, too, 

adding to the stress. 

Finally, in 1964 and with a 

third child on the way, Terlion 

retired from the Air 

Force. 

But concerned that the allotment 

from the military 

would not cover the family’s 

expenses, he returned to the 

mines. 

In 1969, he lost his leg in a 

mining accident. 

“No scratches, nothing in 

the service, then he comes 

home and loses his leg in 

the coal mine,” Angeline 

Terlion said. 

After the accident, a settlement 

took care of the family’s 

financial concerns. And 

Terlion was home to stay. 

He died in 1981 of a heart 

attack. 

Angeline Terlion said she 

doesn’t remember a lot 

about the years during 

World War II, though she 

does remember how happy 

her mother was when the 

war ended. 

And Diane remembers the 

support from the community. 

“This area, I think, was 

very supportive of the war 

effort,” she said. 

Marine drew dangerous duty on Iwo Jima 

By JASON L. LEVAN 

jlevan@indianagazette.net 

One of the scariest moments of 

Alfonzo “Buff” Fanella’s life 

had to be when he realized he 

couldn’t find his rifle amid the 

fierce fighting on Iwo Jima island, 

Japan. 

Part of the 3rd Marine Division, 

Fanella served as a stretcher-bearer, 

one of the worst jobs a soldier 

could have, he explained, because 

it often left you vulnerable to 

enemy fire. 

His stretcher crew had come 

under fire after being called to rescue 

a wounded soldier and had to 

scramble for cover. In the confusion, 

he dropped his rifle. 

After being holed up for quite a 

while, U.S. tanks arrived, providing 

cover for them. Around dusk, when 

fighting usually ended for the day, 

Fanella said he warily went back to 

retrieve his weapon, walking a few 

hundred yards across enemy lines, 

just hoping he wouldn’t get shot. 

“I didn’t know whether to crap or 

wind my watch,” he said with a 

laugh. 

Fanella, 90, of Indiana, recalled 

that day as a highlight of his service 

during World War II, from 1943 to 

1946. 

He said he was especially lucky to 

have been assigned to the 3rd Marine 

Division; it was the 4th and 5th 

divisions that took by far the most 

casualties during the first days of 

the battle. His unit didn’t arrive 

until the third day, when the Americans 

had already established momentum. 

BUFF FANELLA 

That battle was one of the longest 

and deadliest of the war. In about 

five weeks of fighting, 6,821 U.S. 

servicemen were killed at Iwo Jima. 

Of the 22,000 Japanese troops, all 

but 216 were killed or were presumed 

dead. 

What could have been an even 

more perilous situation never materialized 

after the United States 

destroyed Hiroshima and, days 

later, Nagasaki, with nuclear 

bombs. That, of course, finally 

prompted Japan to surrender. 

Fanella’s 3rd Marine Division had 

been stationed in Guam, an island 

in the Pacific well south of Japan, 

preparing to attack Japan, along 

with the rest of the Marines and 

much of the Army. 

“It would have been a massive invasion,” 

he said. “I was scared, yes.” 

Fanella’s journey to Japanese soil 

actually began when he failed the 

test to get into the Naval Reserves 

in 1942 to avoid being drafted. He 

and his lifelong friend, Johnny 

Costas, of Ambridge, quickly decided 

to join the Marines instead, the 

next year. Costas, many may remember, 

went on to become a 

great boxer and served as a boxing 

instructor on various military 

bases. As such, he was never 

shipped into a war zone, Fanella 

said. 

“He got lucky, I guess,” he said. 

Fanella also served on Truk Island, 

north of New Guinea, mainly 

on patrols after the war. He was 

among those who built a stockade 

to house Japanese prisoners. 

He returned to the U.S., one of 

the luckier ones, in 1946.




InMemory 

of 

Bill B. Pugh 

8/6/26-12/14/03 

Served in the Army 

Wo orldWa 

ar II 

Sadly missed by 

wifeDonna and 

children Cindy, 

Billie, 

Jim and Beckey 

In 

Honor of 

George Boruch 

2/11/20-12/26/12 


WWII Ve 

eteran 

Wi 

ith love from 

Vicky Boruch, 

The Boruches 

& Treese 

Families. 

InMemory 

of 

Fred M. 

Barlett 

ta 

8/19/16-8/29/11 

Served in the 

U. .S. Army 


family and fr 

riends. 

In 

Honor of 

Joseph 

Pacconi, 

Sr. 

Born 4/1/26 


You are our hero! 

With Love 

from your 

children: Joseph Jr. ., 

Mitch, Nancy, 

Darla 

and Marcie. 

In 

Honor of 

Charles William 

Craft 

1/22/25-1/21/67 


With love 

from 

your Sons 

and Daughters 

Dad, We 

Love 

You. 

In 

nMemory 

of 

Bill, 

Paul 

& 

“ Lefty” Popp 

Served in the 

U. .S. Army 

In rememb 

brance of 

three brothers service 

to our country during 

Wo 

orldWar II. With 

Love 

from all your 

E 

t d 

ng dF ili 

Remembering mb 

eri 

g 

and dHo 

Honoring 

or 

ng 

t 

g 

The 

Greatest r 

est 

t Generation 

e 

era 

In 

Honor of 

Wallace B. 

McGaughey, 

Sr. 

Born 7/29/21 

With Love 

from 

Yo our Family 

Served in the 

Army 

Air Force 

InMemory 

of 

In 

Honor of 

In 

Honoror of 

381st Bomb Group 

p, 532nd Bombardment 

In 

nMemory 

of 

Squadron (H), Army Air Force, U.S. Army, 

Charles Clyde 

Wade D. Dunlap 

The Terloin 

European Theater of Operations, Ball Tur- 

Sgt.Ru 

ussell C. 

Miller 

Born 12/27/25 Brothers 

ret Gunner and 2nd Radio operator, B-17 Shirley 

11/16/06-12/30/96 

Served in the from Heilwood, PA 

Flying Fortress “The Joker”, Flew 25 Com- 

5/16/18-3/12/01 


U. .S. Army 

Pete (Army) 

bat Missions, August 1942-September 1945. Served in the Army 

Sadly missed by Wi 

ith Love 

from 

Bill (Nav 

vy) Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for 

Sadly missedby 

son 

his children: Family, 

Friends, and Dan “Ben” (Air Force) extraordinary achievement while serving as 

Allen, wife 

Brenda, 

B ernadine, Ve 

ernon, 

the Caring Staff at 

Wi 

ith Love 

fr 

rom Ball Tu 

urret gunner on twenty five missions 

granddaugh 

hters 

Roger, 

Linda 

Hillsdale Rehab 

Your Family. 

over enemy-occupied Continental Europe. Heather & Megan & 

and Families. 

and Nursing. 

All Three Brothers 

Displaying great courage and skill, Sergeant great 

granddaughters 

Served in WWII McGaughey, 

fighting g from his gun position, Lexie & Emily. 

“Thank You fo 

or fight- 

destroyed 

one enemy 

airplane, warded off 

ing for Freedom” 

many enemy attacks and materially aided in 

the success of each of the twenty five mis- 

sions. The courage, coolness, and skill dis- 

played by Sergeant McGaughey on all these 

missions, reflect the highest credit upon 

himself and the Armed 

forces 

of the United 

States. (Inducted d into the Hall of Valor at 

Soldiers and Sailors in Pittsburgh, PA 

A-2002). 

Awards: The Distinguished Flying Cross 

InMemory 

of 

In 

Honor of 

with Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Medal with 

Stanley M. George Randal 

In 

Memory 

of 

4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Good Conduct 

Broskoo 

Misko 

In 

Honor of 

Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Chester J. 

7/18/21-7/23/06 

Born 7/9/60 

Campaign Medal, World 

War 

II Victory VanDyke 

“Boots” 

PVT. .U.S. Army 

Servee 

d in the Marines 

Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal. 8/29/20-7/10/81 

78th DV 

Thank youfor each Belardinelli 

U. 

.S. Coast Guard, SIC 


year you spent 

Born in 1924 


Janet, Mike 

& Family, 

protecting us. 

Served in the 

In 

Memory 

of 

wifeHelen, Daughter, 

Nancy, 

Ed & Family 26 ye 

ears in Marines. U. .S. Army 

DanielTerlion 

Marsha and Lee 

and Ed Dau 

urelio 

I love 

yo 

ou and 

Love, 

From 

1916-1981 Krotseng, 

Brother Fred 

& Family. God bless you & your 

Yo our Fam 

ily 

S erved in the and Margie VanDyke. 

family. 

Your Mother 

U. .S. Air Force 

In 

Honor of 

Dad, I didn’ ’t get to 

Frank Kinter 

know 

you very well as 

I was growing up, be- 

Born 8/31/24 

cause you were away. 

Served in the 

Nav 

vy 

Yet I’ll always remember when I was 

With Love 

from 

seven years old, you wrote the fol- 

Your Children 

lowing quotes in 

my 

autograph 

book, 

Likem 

many 

young men 

“You Better Believe” 

and “Time Will Tell”. 

You were a wise father . . . and my 

very first 

who wanted to join the 

wa r efffort before their In 

Honoror of 

hero. Thank you fo 

r fighting for freedom, 

InMemory 

of 

18th birthday, 

Dad had to have his mother’s 

and thank you for coming home. 

Paul Stewart 

permission to enter the military. 

Like many 

With love, your daughter, Dianne 

John Rostis 

McMahan 

5/30/18-6/7/98 

mothers of that day, 

she signed her approval, 

12/30/13-8/26/69 

Served in the 

and he left for Navy boot camp in New Port, 


Thank You 

Army 

y/Air Force 

RI within weeks of his highh school graduation. 

Sadly missed by for our 


Dad served onboard the USS Up 

pshur (DD-144) 

Paul, Dennis, Dale, 

in the Atlantic and USS Hickox (DD-763) in 

Freedom! 

wife 

Jane, children 

Judy and Kim 

Gerry & John Rolka, 

the Pacific during his 3+ years in the Navy. 

The 

Julie & the late 

destroyers he served on took part in escorting 

Arthur Painter, 

supply shipsfrom Norfolk, VAto Ireland, Played 

Joe & Donna Rethi, 

a role in most of the maj 

jor nav 

val battles in the 

Dav 

vid & Dianna Rostis, 

Pacific, rescued sailors from the burning air- 

grandchildren & 

craft carrier USS Franklin, survived a kamikaze 

attack and typhoon Cobra in the South Pacific. 

In 

Memory 

of 

great-grandchildren 

all all that knew 

Fortunately for us, he returned home 

Cpl. James G. 

and loved him. 

safely, 

married our Mom, and raised a family 

Shellhammer 

that now includes 8 children, 14 grandchildren In 

Memory 

of 

Robert M. McAnulty 

3/21/25-9/8/11 

and 4 great grandchildren. Thank you Dad for 

9/18/20-1/31/10 

Served in the 

the sacrifices you and so many of your gen- 

Served in theUnited States Army 

Air Force U. .S. Army, 

eration made to keep us free! We 

Love You!! 

Robert McAnulty was a waist gunner aboard 

Normandy, 

France 

the “Princess s Pat” A B-24 Liberator with the 

Sadly 

missed by son 

458 Bomb 

Group 

(H) operating on Hor- 

Mike, 

Amy 

y, 

s ham St. Faith’ 

s Airfield, Norwich, Eng 

- grandsons Austin, 

land between 1943-1945. She helped bring 

Lukas, Ty 

and PJ 

her entire e crew home safe 

and victorious. 

“Thank You 

Sadly missed by Richard & Diane McAnulty y. Pappy Shelly” 

In 

Memory 

of 

In 

Honor and 

WilliamVe 

ernon 

Memory 

of 

Stewart, 

Sr. 

Frank Theodore 

6/10/25-12/16/09 

In 

Memory 

of 

In 

Memory 

of 

Semetkoskey 

Served in the 

Petee Nymick 

T-Sgt. Joseph R. 

Un 

nited States Nav 

vy 

9/12/03-1/29/53 

4/1/22-1/22/11 

McWilliams 


Father taught us 


8/14/23-10/16/97 

w ife 

Emma Belle 

children to love God 

Sadly missed by wife 

Servedfrom 

of 62 years, 

first, to pray for 

Veronica, 

daughter 

1923-1946, 

sons, daughters, 

our soldiers, and 

Paula Supo and 

Medical 

grandchildren, 

love our freedom 

husband Bob, 

InMemory 

of 

Detachment, 357 

great grandchildren, 

in our country. 

son JoeNymick and Infantry under W ith Love from and sadly missed by 

Irving Carl 

nieces, nephews, 

wife 

Linda and his General George children: Mary 

(Semetkoskey) Tuley, 

Laura 

Miller 

Bernon & Dorothy 

his grandchildren. 

Patton, 

(Semetkoskey) Fisher, 

Helen (Semetkos- 

3/5/24-8/11/02 

Pete served in the 

Third Army, 

key) Yesolivich, Frank T. (Fid) Semetko- 


African campaign 

90th Division. skey, 

Elizabeth (Semetkoskey) Speranza, 

Sadly 

missed by 

and Anzio Beachhead Sadly missed by and daughter-in-law Cecelia Semetkoskey. 

his wife 

Jane Miller, 

wh 

here he was 

grandsons 

Jason 

children Vi 

ictoria 

seriously wounded 

and Justin. 

In 

Memory and Schneiderwendt 

on May 

26, 1944. 

Honor of 

All Who and Amy 

Parks. 

Grandchildren 

In 

Ho onor and 

Have Defended 

ended 

Jennifer Hunter and 

Memory 

of 

Our Country! 

Becky 

Ebersal. 

George 

Semetkoskey 

InMemory 

of 

In 

Honor of 

4/27/28-11/24/11 

John H. 

James E. 

Served in the 

Watkins 

Postgate 

Army 

y/U. .S. 

In 

Memory 

of 

11/18/25-7/10/11 

1/26/24-3/11/10 

Air Force Branch 

Served in the 

Se 

rve 

ed in the Army 

1947-1949 Anthony 

E. 

U. .S. Nav 

vy 

Company 

B 269th 

WWII Victory Medal alnd Army of Vigliot 

tti John proudly served 

Battalion TEC 5 

Occupation Medal Japan 

Campaign. 

6/8/21-7/31/12 in World War II as a 

American Theater 

With Love from and sadly missed by Served in the Army 

1st Class Fireman. 

Ribbon EAME 

wife 

of 59 Years, 

Cecelia 

(Chiodo) Semet- Sadly missed 

by his Active Naval 1943- 

Theater Ribbon with 

koskey, 

Brother, Frank T. (Fid) Semetkoskey loving wife 

Josephine; 

Served 26 months in Europe. Awarded 3 med- 

2 Bronze Stars, 

and wife 

Donna, sisters: Elizabeth (Semet- 

son Anthony 

M. and als-1 Europe Theater 1 Star -American Theater 

Good Conduct 

koskey) Speranza and husband Donald V. ., daughter-in-law 

Sandy; -Victory Medal. Served on “USS Implicity” 

Ribbon , 

Mary (Semetkoskey) Tuley and husband Al- daughter Carol Dixon 

and “USS Europa” Ships. Served on a Mine- 

Victory Medal. 

bert, Laura (Semetkoskey) Fisher and hus- 

and son-in-lawRon; 

Sweeper. He loved his wife 

Mary, 

married 62 


band Ray, 

Helen (Semetkoskey) Yesolivich. 

and grandchildren, 

years and his 3 children and 6 grandchildren. daughter 

Carolyn 

InMe 

emory 

of 

George Sherman 

Shock 

6/21/25-7/3/08 

Served in theNav 

vy 

Sadly missed wife 

and 11 children. 

In 1942, George Shock 

followed the lead of 

his two older brothers, Jack and Bob in 

answering the call to military service. 

Although h Jack and Bob joined the Army, 

G eorge 

wa s called to join the Navy. 

After b 

oot 

camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Camp, he 

trained in Biloxi, Mississippi to be a gunner on 

a merchant marine ship. He completed 3 voy- 

ages on the S.W. . Bock in a convoy across s the 

Atlantic protecting other ships from enemy 

attacks. He was then assigned to the Brook- 

a mmunitio 

n on to other ships. He was part o 

f 

lyn Naval Yard in New York 

City loading 

the crowd in the heart of New York 

City when 

it was announced 

that the war had ended. 

InMemory 

of 

InMemory 

of 

Chester Fish 

her, Jr. FrankV. 

Jevick 

ky 

9/17/25-5/3/08 7/1/21-12/7/76 

Served in the 

CPLU. .S. Army 

U. .S. Nav 

vy 

Sadly missed 

Sadly missed by wife 

by sons, 

Ina, children: Cynthia, 

Ron, Mark, John, 

Denny, 

Linda Tim and Families. 

and Families. 

In 

Memory 

of 

Charles 

Alden 

Leamer, 

Sr. 

12/11/18-3/2/77 

Serve 

ed in the Army 

Combat 

Engineers 

Sadly 

missed by 

son Larry 

and 

entire fa 

amily 

He served 

until January 1946 in 

the 

Pacific theatre attached to the 115th Engineer 

combat 

Battalion obtaining the 

rank of Staff Sergeant, after an honorable 

discharge he returned to the Indiana, PA 

a rea where e h e resided with his wife 

of 36 ye 

ars 

until his death. 

In 

Memory 

of 

Russell H. 

Stockley 

4/24/19-6/1/05 

Served in the 

U. 

.S. Army 


daughters 

and 

families. 

With courage and honor Russell Stockley serv 

ed 

his country from 1940-1945 in the North 

African and European fronts. Participated 

in almost every major battle including D-Day. 

Received several medals including the Euro- 

pean African 

Middle Eastern Service Medal 

with 8 Bronze Stars and 1 Bronze Arrowhead. 

In 

Ho 

onor of 

Thomas 

Mikesell 

Born 2/6/27 

Staff Sgt.with 

Comp 

any G 

351st Infantry 

Division 

88th Division 

Blue Devils 

Thank you ufo 

or your 

service e to our 

country. 

We 

are 

all proud of you. 

With love 

yo 

our wife, 

children, grand 

children and great- 

grandch 

hildren. 

In 

Memory 

of 

William F. 

Smith 

11/24/26-8/23/12 



daughter, 

Susan 

In 

Memory 

of 

Robert Rethi 

7/22/20-10/24/84 


Sadly missed by his 

children Robert 

& Debbie Rethi, 

Joe & Donna Rethi, 

Sue & JJ Maudie, 

grandchildren & great 

granchildren and all 

that knew & loved him. 

InMemory 

of 

Ronald B. 

Hilliard Sr. 

7/9/21-8/26/00 


With Lovefrom wife 

Viola, sons Ron, Doug, 

Eric; daughter-in-law 

ws, 

Grandchildren and 

Great Grandchildren. 

Your great sense of 

humor, 

hearty laugh, 

and generosity will 

bewith us always. 

InHo 

onor andMemory 

of 

Helen (Yetsina) 

Semetkoskey-Sabochick 

4/28/07-5/7/99 

Mother taught 

us to Love God, to pray for 

our 

Soldiers, Love our freedom in our country, 

and 

when the Wa 

ar ends to listenfor the church bells to 

ring for our soldiers will be coming home soon! 

With Love from and sadly missed by: Children: 

Elizabeth (Semetkoskey) Speranza and husband 

DonaldV. ., Frank T. (Fid) Semetkoskey and wife 

Donna, Mary (Semetkoskey) Tuley and husband 

Albert, Laura (Semetkoskey) Fisher and husband 

Ray, 

Helen (Semetkoskey) Yesolivich, Daughter- 

in-law Cecelia Semetkoskey, 

and Grandchildren.



ON THE HOMEFRONT 

Ordinary 

citizens 

did more 

with less 

ADS FROM THE PAST: Pictured, from top, are Indiana Gazette 

advertisements from Sept. 8, 1943; Sept. 13, 1943; Oct. 23, 

1943; and Sept. 13, 1945. 

By CHAUNCEY ROSS 

chauncey@indianagazette.net 

While American soldiers 

and sailors fought the 

enemies thousands of 

miles from the United States’ 

shores, scarcely a person 

back home was untouched 

by the great war. 

The nation plowed its resources 

into the war effort 

and asked everyone to sacrifice. 

Everything that went 

into the uniforms, meals and 

bullets for the military had to 

be taken from civilian supply 

chains. 

That left folks on the home 

front to adapt their lifestyles, 

stretch their budgets, improvise 

and imagine. They had 

to make do with what 

seemed to be less of nearly 

everything. 

One of the most unusual 

shortages was of people. 

“When we went to the 

dances — we went to the 

Nickelodeon in Graceton — 

we had to dance with the 15- 

year-old kids,” Rose Vilcek recalled. 

“We taught them to jitterbug.” 

Their tradition was to attend 

dances with boys old 

enough to drive, and they had 

to be 18 years old, she said. 

However, in the early days 

of the war, when she was in 

her final years attending 

Blairsville High School, those 

qualifying young men were 

drafted or joined the service 

and headed off to Europe or 

the Pacific. 

It was reported that 23,337 

Indiana County men were 

registered for the draft by 

early 1942. The 18- and 19- 

year-olds were the first to be 

inducted. 

That left a shortage of guys. 

Even those that didn’t pass 

the physical and were classified 

4-F by Selective Service 

were few and far between, 

Rose said. 

“But if a soldier did come 

home, he usually had a girlfriend 

and would dance with 

her. So we didn’t get a chance 

to dance with older young 

men.” 

Eventually, Rose married a 

soldier. Gusty Vilcek, the 

brother of one of her close 

friends, who was five years 

older than her, and they 

didn’t date until he returned 

home from the war. 

She was the 11th of 13 children 

of Edward and Katherine 

Rura, who emigrated 

from Slovakia to the U.S. in 

the early days of the 20th century. 

Her dad intended to work 

in the mines like so many 

others who made up Indiana 

County’s little version of the 

population “melting pot.” 

After only two days in the 

shafts, her father had enough 

of mining, Rose said, so he 

bought a dairy farm in the 

Coral area of Center Township, 

and every able body in 

the family helped out. 

When food rationing began 

because of the war, she and 

her brothers and sisters were 

already accustomed to it. 

At the little wooden schoolhouse 

in Graceton where she 

attended elementary classes 

in the 1930s, the kids were 

given a pint jar of milk a day 

— it was arranged by the 

county, as she recalled. 

“But I didn’t get any because 

I lived on a farm,” she 

said. “I guess some kids didn’t 

have much to eat then. But if 

someone didn’t come to 

school, the teacher would 

give the milk to us that day. 

There were about three of us 

who lived on farms and 

weren’t given milk in school.” 

With the war came limits 

on everyone, Rose said. 

“Most of the food rationing 

involved coffee and sugar,” 

she said. “If you found out 

that they had coffee at the 

A&P store, then you would 

have to go and get some or 

you wouldn’t have any.” 

Rationed food wasn’t 

stocked on the shelves, and 

customers had to ask for it, 

she said. 

From November 1942 to 

July 1943, coffee was limited 

to one pound every five 

weeks per person over age 14. 

Folks were allowed the food 

that they needed — more for 


RATION BOOKS like these, in a photograph provided by historian John Busovicki, were widely 

used during the war effort. 

adults, less for children, according 

to John Busovicki, of 

Clymer, the county’s official 

historian. 

“Everybody got a ration 

book. Parents would get a 

book and each kid would, 

too,” he said. “They would 

take the stamps from the 

books and your payment, but 

you could buy only as many 

things as you had rations in 

your book.” 

Busovicki still has booklets 

of unused war ration 

coupons allocated to his family. 

The rationing system paid 

careful attention to people’s 

needs. Limits kept people 

from having too much or too 

little. 

“My dad was a miner and 

said you couldn’t get tires for 

your car. They were very 

tough to get,” Busovicki said. 

“Gasoline was rationed and 

his car had a sticker on the 

windshield because he was 

allowed just so much gasoline 

to get to work. 

“There was no recreational 

use for cars during the war, so 

we didn’t go on the highways.” 

Gasoline supplies were cut 

by as much as 25 percent in 

mid-1942, and Gov. Arthur 

James ordered a 35 mph 

statewide speed limit to conserve 

fuel. 

Busovicki remembers his 

father fixing flat tires with 

blowout patches that closed a 

punctured inner tube. Vehicle 

owners had to stretch to get 

every mile out of their fuel 

and tires. 

The appearance of cars didn’t 

matter. Bumpers were 

made of wood and painted, 

because chrome was diverted 

for the military, he said. 

“And some people couldn’t 

get cars. No automobiles 

were made at all in 1942,” he 

said. “That’s how scarce 

metal was during World War 

II.” 

To take up some of the 

transportation slack, more 

and more buses were placed 

in service. 

Indiana County’s forefront 

industries, farming and coal 

mining, were directly tapped 

by the government for war 

needs before the products 

reached the consumer level. 

The late historian Clarence 

D. Stephenson noted in his 

“Indiana County 175th Anniversary 

History” compilation 

that the U.S. Department 

of Agriculture bought up 85 

percent of tomatoes and 90 

percent of peas from area 

farmers. Coal production 

rose from 9 million tons in 

1942 to 10.6 million tons in 

1944. As the war wore on, 

though, strip mines sprung 

up and deep mining declined 

because of shortages of workers, 

a problem also experienced 

at harvest times on 

area farms. 

The war had a secondary 

effect on the population, as 

workers moved away from 

Indiana County to take jobs 

in areas with industries that 

ramped up for the war. 

Clothing had to be 

stretched in the Rura household. 

“Shoes were scarce because 

of leather,” Rose said. “At my 

age, we didn’t buy shoes that 

often and it didn’t affect me 

as much, because we had a 

large family and we had 

hand-me-downs. And when 

the weekend came and you 

wanted to dress up, we had 

no stockings. You couldn’t 

buy nylon because it was 

used for parachutes. 

“So we used leg makeup,” 

Rose said. “It was liquid, sort 

of tan and you could buy different 

shades. You had to 

shave your legs and put it on 

with your hand about an inch 

above the knee. And if it 

rained — well, that was too 

bad. You ended up with 

splotchy legs.” 

Recycling was also stepped 

up during the war. 

“When mother cooked 

hamburger, we saved the renderings,” 

Busovicki recalled. 

Cans full of meat fat could be 

taken to town or might be 

picked up. 

“They made soap out of 

that, and that was a big deal,” 

he said. 

When he was a kid, he said, 

he remembered his mother 

cutting both ends from food 

cans, then cleaning them out, 

removing the labels and flattening 

them to be taken for 

recycling. 

“And we saved newspaper, 

to be picked up for the paper 

drives,” Busovicki said. 

Scrap metals, rubber, 

kitchen fats, paper, silk and 

nylon hosiery were collected 

as resources for the war. 

“Save one tablespoon of fat 

a day,” was one of the rallying 

slogans. 

Stephenson reported that 

Homer City High School students 

found 24 old automobiles 

that were turned over 

for scrap in January 1943. 

The war had influences on 

other facets of life, particularly 

in instilling the sense of patriotism 

that enabled the U.S. 

to maintain the fights against 

Japan and the other Axis 

powers. 

“In schools, they would 

come around and sell stamps 

for the war effort,” Busovicki 

said. “They sold bonds, too, 

but the kids could buy the 

stamps for 10 cents.” 

The stamps at school went 

into a little green book, as Vilcek 

remembered it. 

“The bonds cost $18.50 and 

you would get $25 in 10 

years,” Vilcek said. 

Early on, they were called 

Defense Bonds. By mid-1942, 

they were called War Bonds. 

Companies and unions organized 

pledges and donations 

from employee payrolls, 

much as the United Way is 

sustained by workplace campaigns 

today. 

According to Stephenson’s 

history, Indiana Gazette 

newsboys sold 8 million war 

stamps at 25 cents each, and 

then worked to raise $4,815 

for a Water Weasel M29, a 

swamp-going vehicle for the 

military. Many similar fund 

collections earmarked the 

cash for specific defense 

needs. 

To celebrate high rates of 

student participation in 

stamp and bond sales, 

schools were awarded Minuteman 

flags to fly with their 

U.S. flags. 

Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance 

was not just requested 

but required, said Ron 

Kuzemchak, a retired coal 

miner and a student of the 

history of Heilwood. 

“The Pine Township School 

District adopted a policy concerning 

saluting the flag in 

1942,” Kuzemchak said. “‘It 

shall be a requirement of 

every pupil attending the 

public schools to make a 

salute of the flag of our country, 

the United States of 

America.’” 

Kuzemchak, who was born 

during the war, found in his 

research that the school introduced 

a pre-flight aviation 

class in 1943, to teach students 

about the history of 

flight and basic navigation 

skills. 

As part of the interest in aviation, 

students were recruited 

to stand lookout for aircraft 

in the skies over Pine 

Township, and kept watch 

from improvised bell towers 

atop the township’s schools. 

And due to the paper shortages, 

Pine Township High 

School didn’t publish a yearbook 

for the Class of 1944, he 

said. 

Heilwood was among the 

first of many communities to 

erect honor scrolls, public 

displays showing the names 

of area boys and men serving 

in the military. Some were 

put up to salute the memories 

of local servicemen who 

died in the war. 

Vilcek remembers the 

lights-out drills. 

“At night, if we heard the 

siren we had to pull the window 

blinds down. They were 

dark and green and they preferred 

that you buy them,” 

Vilcek said. “And they were 

ugly.” 

Putting out the light was a 

matter of snuffing candles 

and lanterns. The Rura family 

still didn’t have electricity, 

and wiring the house during 

the war wasn’t even considered 

because copper was 

needed for the military. 

Indiana County had a contingent 

of 250 air raid wardens 

in early 1942, according 

to Stephenson’s history. Air 

raid signal sirens were installed 

at the McCreary Tire & 

Rubber Company plant and 

at Indiana State Teachers College 

in Indiana. 

Perhaps among the most 

vivid of the memories and 

most dramatic of the days 

were the celebrations of the 

end of the war. 

“I remember when it was 

over in 1945, some men had a 

truck with a set of gallows and 

three guys hanging on the 

back. They were effigies of 

Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo,” 

Busovicki remembered. 

“They drove through Clymer 

for a week. 

“It was a joyous occasion, 

and that is vivid in my mind. I 

remember the jubilation that 

was felt and seeing everybody 

hugging each other.” 

When Germany surrendered, 

churches scheduled 

services of prayers and 

thanksgiving, merchants 

closed their stores and the 

women’s chorus at the state 

teachers college held a concert 

of celebration, according 

to Stephenson. 

“I remember when the war 

was over, we were out in the 

field on the farm,” Vilcek said. 

“The siren blew and the 

church bell rang. We stopped 

the horses and we prayed. 

And that has stuck with me 

for a long time.” 

Downtown Indiana was 

flooded with revelers, said by 

The Indiana Gazette to be 

“one of the largest crowds in 

Indiana County history,” 

when Japan surrendered. The 

600 block of Philadelphia 

Street was closed outside the 

county courthouse and 

politicians gave speeches. 

Homer City had a parade to 

celebrate. 

The intense war effort had 

left deep marks on civilian life 

in the U.S., and Americans 

had quite a bit of ramping up 

to restore the pre-war ways of 

life and the new luxuries and 

conveniences that came with 

the baby boom. 

Some folks remained on 

waiting lists for several years 

to get cars that they had to do 

without during the war, 

Busovicki said. Some people 

maintained the conservation 

practices they adopted during 

the war years. 

But with the end of the battles 

in Europe and the Pacific 

also came the end of rationing 

and shortages of supplies 

and products — and 

people, as American military 

men returned to the home 

front.


Soldier 

saw action 

in bloody 

Ardennes 



Born May 23, 1924, Jack 

Moyle knew when he 

had reached the age of 

18 in 1942 that it was only a 

matter of time before he received 

his draft notice. So one 

day, he and a friend traveled 

to Harrisburg to attempt to 

enlist in the Navy. Moyle was 

eligible; his friend was not. 

The two left Harrisburg unenlisted. 

Upon arriving 

home, he found an Army 

draft notice waiting for him. 

Moyle began his training as 

a regular infantryman in Indiantown 

Gap in central 

Pennsylvania. He later found 

himself in Camp Mackall, 

N.C., with the 11th Airborne 

Division. 

He found himself moving 

all across Europe during the 

campaign there. As an infantryman, 

he was found to 

be a jack-of-all-trades in all 

things Army. He operated 60 

mm mortar launchers, carried 

bazookas and helped 

clear land mines. 

Moyle also found himself in 

the Ardennes shortly before 

the Battle of the Bulge in December 

1944. 

He vividly remembered 

spending Thanksgiving Day 

in a freezing-cold foxhole 

while he ate a special Thanksgiving 

meal. It was a meal of 

mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, 

gravy, corn, turkey, 

fruit and oatmeal cookies, all 

freezing cold. 

“I wasn’t sure if that was 

worse than the K rations or 

not,” Moyle said. 

During the Battle of the 

Bulge, Moyle set up “dragon 

teeth,” tank traps made of 

concrete. One day, he was 

pinned down in a foxhole. 

Heavy concussions from the 

bombing shook him around, 

and he eventually took shrapnel 

to his back. 

Unable to walk, he was able 

to pull himself to an aid station 

that had been set up in a 

nearby building. He was 

loaded onto the front of a 

Jeep and taken to a field hospital. 

He was later sent to a tent 

hospital at Omaha Beach, 

where doctors found blood in 

his spine. It would be four to 

five weeks of rehabilitation 

before he could walk again. 

Submitted photos 

JACK AND Joyce Moyle met during the war and were married 

just before the Japanese surrendered. 


Following his injury, he 

could no longer fight on the 

front lines. His company 

commander had threatened 

that he would make Moyle 

guard POWs while he was behind 

the lines, but a trip to 

sick call got him out of that 

duty. 

He was instead sent to work 

in the Army post office back 

in England and acted as a 

message courier, a job he was 

none too happy with either. 

“I didn’t want to work in the 

post office,” Moyle said. “I 

gave them a rough time.” 

But he did eventually meet 

his wife, Joyce, 87, while 

working in the post office 

there. An English girl, she had 

lived through the hardest 

times of the war. She had answered 

the call for individuals 

to assist with the postal work 

on American bases. 

The two were married in 

August 1945, shortly before 

the official Japanese surrender 

in September. Moyle remembers 

holding his wedding 

reception in the streets 

for three days because everyone 

in the country was celebrating 

the end of the war by 

throwing parties and playing 

music right in the street. 

Moyle returned to the U.S. 

in late 1945, but Joyce had to 

wait till May 1946 before she 

could make the trip. 

Moyle, now 88, was awarded 

the Bronze Star for his participation 

in combat action in 

Germany, but to this day has 

yet to receive a Purple Heart 

for the injuries he suffered 

during the Battle of the Bulge. 

Due to a loss of records, his 

family has been unable to 

convince the government to 

award the medal. 

Moyle’s family has continued 

to serve in the military. 

He has a grandson in the 

Army Reserves — Maj. Gregory 

A. Watson — and a greatgrandson 

in the Air Force — 

Airman 1st Class Trent M. 

Barlett. 

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man spread gift of music 



Hannibal Belardinelli, 88, was born on 

June 22, 1924. He picked up the nickname 

“Boots” early in life. 

As a child growing up during the Great 

Depression, his footwear was typically a 

pair of boots. He joked with his father that 

he had the same pair of boots from age 2 

to 18. 

Belardinelli was drafted into the Army in 

the fall of 1943. After basic training in Alabama, 

he was sent to Hawaii to join an 

anti-tank company in the 27th Infantry 

Division. He received more training in 

Hawaii before heading east to participate 

in the Pacific campaign. 

He found himself in the Battle of Saipan, 

a noted battle on an island in the Mariana 

Islands in 1944. Here, Belardinelli had a 

close brush with death. 

He had been lying in a foxhole with a fellow 

soldier. Belardinelli was facing one 

way; the other soldier was facing the opposite 

direction. His friend asked him if he 

would come around so they could both 

look in the same direction, so Belardinelli 

switched positions. 

“I no sooner turned,” he said, “about 45 

seconds, and then a piece of shrapnel 

came into our foxhole.” 

The 4-inch-long shrapnel landed between 

Belardinelli’s legs. Had he still been 

lying in his original position, the shrapnel 

would have gone into his back and possibly 

killed him. 

Belardinelli remembered how strongly 

the Japanese fought, experiencing one of 

Japan’s famous “last stands.” After a suicidal 

“banzai charge,” more than 4,300 

Japanese had been killed. Their bodies 

were buried in a mass trench. 

“It’s a gruesome thing,” Belardinelli said, 

“but war is war, I guess. It’s not a pretty 

thing.” 

After Saipan, Belardinelli’s company was 

sent to the New Hebrides Islands, the island 

of Espiritu Santo, northeast of Australia. 

Here, he received more training for 

a new mission, though they had no idea 

what that would be. 

The next step, they learned, was invading 

Okinawa. On the second day of the invasion, 

Belardinelli was injured. 

He and another soldier had been unloading 

and stockpiling ammunition for 

the next day’s push. 

Japanese soldiers suddenly began mortaring 

their position in an attempt to hit 

the ammunition pile. While trying to protect 

himself, Belardinelli took shrapnel in 

his left wrist and his back. 

Unable to get him to a field hospital, the 

medics hid him in a nearby tomb as they 



Joseph Sturiale wasn’t 

even out of high school 

when he volunteered 

to serve with the Merchant 

Marines, an entity that 

transported troops and 

supplies during World War 

II. 

It was November of 1944. 

While the rest of his class 

was finishing their senior 

year and preparing to graduate 

in June, Sturiale was 

beginning an 18-month 

journey that would take 

him on a half-dozen trips. 

Sturiale, of Indiana, started 

out as a worker in the 

galley of a ship, but in 1945 

there was a change of duty. 

“This ship I was on, the 

regular cook got sick,” 

Sturiale said. “The chef 

asked if anyone could 

cook. … My friend said, ‘He 

can cook.’” 

But Sturiale wasn’t as 

confident in his abilities as 

his friend was. He told the 

JOSEPH STURIALE 

chef, “I could fry eggs and 

boil water.” 

“You’re the cook,” the 

chef replied. 

Sturiale volunteered on a 

ship that transported 3,000 

to 4,000 troops. During the 

war, he went to the Philippines. 

After, there were 

trips to Africa, Italy, France 

and Germany to bring 

troops home and return 

German and Italian prisoners. 

As an 18-year-old, he was 

“THAT WAS about the most 

satisfying thing in my life. Just to 

watch those guys and you could 

see the smiles on their faces by 

hearing these old numbers. That 

was the best time when I was in 

the service and overseas.” 

Hannibal “Boots” Belardinelli 

knew the Japanese would not attack the 

sacred ground. Soon more and more 

troops began showing up, until a major 

part of his company was taking shelter 

there. 

After the attack, Belardinelli was taken to 

a hospital ship and back to a hospital in 

Saipan, where he would spend a month 

recovering. 

Belardinelli was headed back to rejoin 

his company when the first atomic bomb 

was dropped on Hiroshima. 

He then joined the occupation forces 

and was in one of the first companies to go 

into Japan after it officially surrendered in 

September 1945. 

One day, while traveling with a friend to 

the post exchange, he noticed a group of 

nearby soldiers playing music. One had an 

accordion, one a guitar and one a mandolin. 

Belardinelli noticed an upright bass 

nearby, an instrument he was very familiar 

with. He joined the group, and they played 

“One O’clock Jump,” a Count Basie tune 

from 1937. 

Friendships were formed, and the group 

soon found themselves touring the four 

hospitals on the island, playing songs for 

the injured soldiers. 

“That was about the most satisfying 

thing in my life,” Belardinelli said. “Just to 

watch those guys and you could see the 

smiles on their faces by hearing these old 

numbers. 

“That was the best time when I was in 

the service and overseas.” 

Later, while still in Japan, an officer 

came looking for him to play in a group for 

an upcoming event. During his audition, 

he was asked if he could play “One O’clock 

Jump,” and after demonstrating his skills, 

was picked up to play in the 14-piece 

group. They soon played for a collection of 

officers and Japanese dignitaries. 

Belardinelli was awarded the Purple 

Heart for the injuries he suffered. 

These days, he lives in Marion Center, 

pursuing his hobby of restoring old pedal 

cars, trucks and tractors. He has several on 

display in his garage, some dating to 1953. 

As teen, Sturiale cooked up 

nourishment for thousands 

scared. 

“I kept my life jacket 

pretty close to me,” he said. 

“After the war, it wasn’t too 

bad.” 

And when there were no 

troops on the ship, he was 

actually more like just a 

passenger, he said. 

Life on the ship took 

some getting used to. 

“You see the same people 

every day,” he said. “It wasn’t 

too bad.” 

He most enjoyed the trips 

to the Mediterranean, 

where it was warm, and 

didn’t care for the trips to 

the North Atlantic. 

There were not many opportunities 

to go ashore at 

most stops because after 

the war everything was 

bombed out. And even 

when he could go ashore, 

most people didn’t speak 

English. 

Eighteen months after 

volunteering, it was time to 

return home. 

“I was glad,” he said. “I 

had enough of it by then.” 

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ROBERT 

BAGLEY’S 

creativity was 

on display this 

summer at the 

Jimmy Stewart 

Airport Days 

festival, where 

a 3-quarterton 

truck was 

disassembled 

and 

reassembled 

for the public. 

Ingenuity spawned new vehicle 



It was foresight or a desire 

to serve his country that 

led Ronald Bagley to join 

the Army in March 1941, 

prior to Japan’s invasion of 

Pearl Harbor and the United 

States’ official involvement in 

the war. 

After basic training in Virginia, 

he began Officer’s Candidate 

School, hoping to become 

a fully commissioned 

officer. He succeeded and in 

December 1942 he was sent 

to New Guinea to command 

the 247th Quartermaster 

Truck Company in Port 

Moresby. 

Reconnaissance had recently 

discovered a disused 

airstrip near a Japanese military 

base in Lae, New Guinea. 

The strip was long enough 

for C-47 transport planes to 

fly in and out from the island, 

bringing supplies and equipment. 

Engineers soon began work 

on the island to build a base 

where fighter planes could 

refuel and find some protection. 

In order to move equipment 

around the island 

quickly and efficiently, trucks 

were needed, but most 

trucks at the time were too 

ROBERT BAGLEY, then and now 

large to fit into a C-47. This is 

where Bagley’s ingenuity was 

put to good use. 

Bagley, working with fellow 

1st Lt. Joe Berman, began 

work on a type of truck that 

could be disassembled, 

flown to a location in pieces 

and then reassembled upon 

landing. 

From January until June 

1943, Bagley and Berman 

worked on a type of 2½-ton 

truck that could be halved 

prior to loading. Both halves 

could then be rejoined once 

they reached their destination. 

Bagley did meet some resistance 

in his desire to build 

a break-apart truck, according 

to his daughter, Jan Weston. 

His request to design and 

build the truck was initially 

denied by his commanding 

officer. Not willing to let go of 

his idea, he went over his 

CO’s head and brought the 

design to a general who approved 

the idea. Bagley’s CO 

did not take to this kindly, 

and had him court-martialed 

for the offense, though the 

charges were later dropped. 

Once the design for the 

truck was approved, Bagley 

was sent to Australia to oversee 

the construction of the 

trucks. While in Australia, he 

married his wife, Sarah. The 

two had met and dated during 

a prior trip Bagley had 

made to Australia earlier in 

the war. 


By the end of the war, the 

U.S. and Australia had manufactured 

more than 9,500 

2½-ton and 3,300 threequarter-ton 

break-apart 

trucks for the military. 

For his work, Bagley was 

awarded the Legion of Merit 

medal and a U.S. patent. 

Bagley was able to return to 

the U.S. following the end of 

the war and was home in 

time for Christmas in 1945. 

He continued a career in the 

military for 30 years, spending 

time in Korea, Vietnam 

and working for the Pentagon. 

He retired in 1970 as a 

full colonel. 

Bagley was born April 11, 

1919. An Indiana native, he 

graduated from Indiana High 

School and even briefly attended 

Indiana State Teachers 

College — now Indiana 

University of Pennsylvania — 

for a brief time before family 

obligations forced him to 

withdraw. He died April 24, 

2010, at 91. 

Bagley’s contribution to the 

war effort was recently 

demonstrated in June when a 

three-quarter-ton truck of 

his design was disassembled 

and reassembled before a 

crowd of onlookers at the 

Jimmy Stewart Airport Days 

festival. 

Personal journal 

provides look 

at soldier in war 

■ EDITOR’S NOTE: Following are excerpts from the written 

account of Pfc. Jack H. Pulliam’s wartime experience in 

Europe. A paratrooper, he served in the 17th Airborne 

Division’s 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which was 

called upon to help push back what would be Germany’s 

last major offensive of the war. That battle became known as 

the Battle of the Bulge. 

His account, provided to the Gazette by his nephew, 

former Homer City Mayor John Pulliam, begins on Jan. 6, 

1945, the eve of his 20th birthday. Pulliam, who was from 

Lucernemines and passed away in 1993, writes that he was 

cold, dug into a hill just outside of the Flamierge, Belgium, 

and under orders to move on the town the next morning, 

along with other members of his unit. 

One would expect that on their birthday it could be celebrated 

with loud noises and flashing lights. I got all that, 

with some shrapnel and 7.62 mm fire thrown in that I 

would have just as soon done without. 

 

At nine o’clock a.m., on the nose, we took off for 

Flamierge. We just got started when my squad hit an outpost 

that was dug in at the base of a haystack about 300 

yards out. Before we got to it, Sgt. Lee, who was leading, ran 

right into it. I think he was the first G Company member 

killed that morning. We knocked out the outpost and started 

up and over the ridge that separated us from the town. 

 

The fog started to lift a little, and this did not help our situation 

one bit. Small arms fire was kicking up snow all over 

the place. About this time, I heard the rumble and knew at 

once what it was — tanks! Then we saw them, in a line ready 

to start up the hill into our face. They were firing their (88 

mm guns) at a single man. Someone tried to make it back 

up the hill and was cut into before he got 50 feet. As the 

tanks started to move, I was firing my .30-caliber at them, 

and I might as well have been tossing rocks. A tank swung 

his gun at me and fired. The swish was like something I 

never heard before. The shell went off back of me about 20 

feet. 

Ely, our bazooka man, jumped to his feet and tried to get 

off a shot. It looked like he took the hit in the middle and 

just seemed to disappear. 

Several of the platoon that went over that ridge saw a depression 

in the field with some evergreen trees growing out 

of it. They made for the hole, and that turned out to be a bad 

mistake. The tanks saw them drop out of sight in the hole 

and started to fire into the trees. 

At this time, the tanks started to move on us. I’m out of 

ammunition for the machine gun, and a .45 automatic sure 

isn’t going to impress a Tiger tank. 

 

When it was about 10 feet away, I rolled away to my left, 

and it went on by. After it goes by, I turn my head to watch it 

and see that it’s all covered on the rear with German infantry, 

12 to 14 per tank. As they went by, one of them waved 

and shot his “burp gun” in front of me in the snow. 

I am sure he did not try to hit me because I was like fish in 

a barrel, and he shot about five feet in front of me and 


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Fighting 

in Burma 

a tense 

affair 



The service of Harry W. 

Cramer, a member of 

the 75th Infantry Regiment 

Rangers and Merrill’s 

Marauders, was riddled 

with close calls. 

Cramer, of the Penn 

Run/Brush Valley area, 

passed away on Nov. 20, 

1993, and served in the war 

from 1941 to 1944. 

He left his family many 

stories. 

Cramer attended veterinary 

school in Fitzsimons 

Army Medical Center, Denver. 

Cramer was a member of 

the 35th Pack Outfit, a special 

mission in Burma, and a 

muleskinner, working with 

the pack animals. 

His first close call came 

after his training, when he 

went to California, then El 

Paso, Texas, where he 

boarded a ship to Burma. 

On his journey, the ship 

was torpedoed by the 

Japanese as it left the Suez 

Canal. 

“The force turned the boat 

180 degrees,” said daughter 

Becky Stiffler. “The boat 

sank, bow downward. Dad 

was sleeping on deck that 

night because it was so hot. 

Everything he owned was 

washed overboard.” 

Cramer suffered a burst 

eardrum as a result of the 

blast, Stiffler said. The boat 

was evacuated safely, with 

no loss of human life, but 

mules in the belly of the 

boat all drowned. 

From the life boats, the 

soldiers confused a bright 

star in the sky for a searchlight, 

and rowed toward it; 

however, the next morning, 

they could see their ship 

with the propellers out of 

the water. 

Men boarded the ship, trying 

to pump it out, she said. 

Though it would rise back 

up, they were unsuccessful. 

After dark that night, 

when the men had returned 

to their lifeboats, the Japanese 

returned and sank the 

boat. 

The next day, Cramer and 

his comrades were rescued 

by Her Majesty, a ship from 

either England or Australia, 

which took them to Calcutta, 

India, where they were 

issued new mules. 

While there, though he 

wasn’t trained in the infantry, 

Cramer was handed 

an M1 rifle and told to get 

some ammunition and 

practice. They were to join 

the Ledo Road with the 

Burma Trail. 


HARRY CRAMER was part of the 35th Pack Outfit, a special mission in Burma. 

“THE FORCE turned the 

boat 180 degrees. The 

boat sank, bow 

downward. Dad was 

sleeping on deck that 

night because it was so 

hot. Everything he 

owned was washed 

overboard.” 

Becky Stiffler, 

Harry Cramer’s daughter 

Not fond of the M1, as it 

was heavy, Cramer rooted 

through a pile of guns that 

belonged to dead soldiers, 

looking for a better one. He 

found a Browning automatic, 

which he cleaned and got 

into working condition. 

But that wasn’t such a 

good idea, Stiffler said. As 

the pack was going to enter 

a firefight, the officer in 

charge commanded all men 

with automatic weapons to 

the front. 

He got rid of it the first 

chance he could. 

“After that experience, 

Dad decided it wasn’t a 

good idea to have an automatic 

weapon,” Stiffler said. 

Another close call came as 

the soldiers were issued 

hand grenades. 

One soldier decided to 

thread the grenades on a 

rope through the pins for 

easy access, Stiffler said. But 

when a mortar went off, 

spooking the mule, it 

jumped and knocked off a 

grenade. 

“My dad was close by and 

saw what was happening,” 

Stiffler said. “He placed his 

mule between himself and 

the grenade. Dad dug 

shrapnel out of that mule 

for weeks, but saved himself.” 

A more lighthearted moment 

came when they were 


walking one night, and the 

soldiers kept falling in deep 

holes. In the morning light, 

they realized what the holes 

really were — footprints 

from an elephant. 

Cramer’s service in Burma 

came to an end when he became 

very ill with malaria 

and jungle rot. A cub aircraft 

landed on top of the jungle’s 

dense trees and was torn 

apart and carried to the 

ground. 

Soldiers on the jungle 

floor reassembled the plane, 

and Cramer was placed inside. 

In order to lift off, soldiers 

held the plane down as the 

pilot accelerated to full 

power, then they let go. 

“This was necessary in 

order to have enough force 

to lift off from the tiny area 

in the middle of the jungle,” 

Stiffler said. 

Cramer was flown to a 

hospital in Calcutta. And 

while he recovered, and survived 

his time in the war, 

less than half the soldiers 

who went on that Burma 

mission returned, Stiffler 

said. 

For his service, Cramer received 

the Combat Infantry 

Badge, Presidential Citation, 

Bronze Star, Good 

Conduct Award and Campaign 

Ribbon with two 

stars. 


POW tells story 

of his survival 

■ EDITOR’S NOTE: Following are excerpts from the 

written account of Carl D. Roof’s wartime experience. 

Roof, of Armstrong Township, documented his 

experience in a narrative account he put together in 

2002, using notes he had written in a logbook at the 

time. Roof, a member of the nonprofit American Ex- 

Prisoners of War, shared his story with the Gazette, and 

asked that readers observe POW/MIA Recognition Day. 

Shortly after graduation 

from Plumville High School 

I received my “Greetings 

from Uncle Sam” letter and 

reported for induction into 

the Army on Sept. 21, 1942. 

My routine induction was at 

Indiantown Gap, Pa. I completed 

basic training at 

Camp Forrest, Tullahoma, 

Tenn., and was assigned to 

the 80th Division 317th 

Infantry 3rd Battalion 

Headquarters Co. 

After six weeks of basic 

training we were sent out on 

maneuvers. I guess the 

army thought the Tennessee 

countryside, with its 

rivers and streams, resembled 

Germany because that 

is where we fought our 

mock battles. 

The battles were so real 

that one day a civilian 

stopped alongside a soldier 

he found lying in the road, 

who was supposed to have 

been killed and asked what 

was wrong. The supposedly 

dead soldier said, “I don’t 

know. I’ve been dead for a 

week.” 

 

On July 1, 1944, we boarded 

the SS NY 844 to a secret 

overseas destination. It was 

the largest and most ugly 

ship I had ever seen with its 

camouflaged paint job. We 

soon learned that this was 

the British Liner Queen 

Mary, which was nicknamed 

the “Beast.” 

What had once been an 

elegant cruise ship had now 

become a transport ship. 

We found ourselves below 

deck in cramped quarters 

filled with bunk beds; there 

were 15,000 men aboard. 

The 80th Division, the Air 

Force and other ground 

troops were all headed overseas. 

There were so many 

men that we were fed only 

once a day. 

The empty swimming 

pool was used for a dining 

hall. A submarine escorted 

us the first day we were at 

sea. For six days we sailed 

the open sea alone without 

protection. The third day 

was the worst with very 

rough sea creating swells 

that were higher than the 

promenade deck. The sick 

thought they were dying. Finally 

the sea became calm. 

The Queen Mary’s berth 

port was London, England, 

but the Germans were 

bombing London so we 

could not port there. On the 

cool and misty typical Scottish 

day of July 7, 1944, we 

anchored instead at 

Greenock, Firth of Clyde, 

Scotland. Land craft infantry 

ships transported us 

from the “Beast” to shore, 

and trucks took us to a staging 

area where we were assigned 

to Maj. Gen. Walton 

Walker’s 7th Core, spending 

two weeks here. 

The core was part of Patton’s 

3rd Army. From 

Greenock we boarded a 

troop train for the 225-mile 

trip to Norwich, England, 

where I received my rating 

of sergeant. 

We were training for the 

Normandy fighting. We 

crossed the English Channel 

aboard LSTs and Liberty 

ships on Aug. 5, 1944. The 

80th Division’s 3rd Battalion 

Headquarters Company 

was the first off the ship. We 

landed on Utah Beach with 


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smiled at me. 

When the tanks got to the 

top of the ridge we had just 

come over a few minutes before, 

the infantry got off and 

proceeded to come back to us 

and mop up. 

Two Krauts came up to me 

and took my cigarettes and 

my arctic boots I had over my 

jump boots. They checked for 

food and after all this they decided 

they better take my .45. 

I’m now a POW. 

 

Four of us were gathered up 

and pushed into this little 

house and told to sit on the 

floor. A German officer came 

in and took a look at my jump 

boots and baggy pants pockets. 

“Ist parashutest” he 

asked, as he pointed at my 

boots. Then he looked 

around at the rest of us and 

said, “All ist parashutest.” Not 

a question but a statement. 

Then he started to unsnap 

his holster. At the same time, 

a German major came into 

the room and told the guards 

to get us out of there. It would 

have gotten real sticky if the 

major had not walked in 

when he did. 

About 10 or 12 of us were 

loaded onto a covered truck 

and driven east for about five 

miles. 

 

Our next stop was in the 

German town of Prum. It was 

in this town that some German 

kids, about 13 to 15 years 

old, wanted the guards to give 

us to them. Several of the kids 

had pistols and were shooting 

over our heads. Our guards 

were getting as nervous as we 

were. They got us out of there 

as quick as they could. 

We were taken to a schoolhouse 

that had been converted 

into a hospital, and we 

were locked up in the basement. 

The Germans were doing 

some pretty tough surgery at 

Prum, and not all were a success. 

Several of us prisoners of 

war that were not in too bad 

of shape were used as burial 

party. Never could figure out 

why they called it a “party.” 

We had to dig graves in the 

old playground of this school. 

At least it was warm work and 

we got chances to get into the 

kitchen area and steal food. 

Swiping food was the highlight 

of the day. Second highlight 

was not getting caught. 

I would have to guess that 

we buried seven to eight a day 

for the four days we were 

there. All were not Germans. 

The Americans that died were 

treated with great respect and 

honor. This I am proud of. 

When a soldier would die, 

we would not take him out 

right away because a German 

orderly would come around 

in the afternoon and put a 

piece of hard candy on their 

chest to eat later. He did not 

check to see if they were living 

or not. We knew! As soon as 

he left, we hustled in and took 

if off the corpses. That candy 

I’m sure helped me come 

through this whole thing. 

 

Our next stop was the pits, 

Gerolstein, Germany. Dates 

and days were slipping by, but 

I figured it had been around 

Jan. 15 when we arrived at 

this little “spa” in the Ardennes. 

I remember just before 

we got to Gerolstein we 

tried to get one of our guards 

to shoot a skinny little dog 

alongside a railroad track. We 

had plans of cooking and eating 

this sucker, but the guard 

would not shoot it. I almost 

had him talked into letting 

me do it, but guess he figured 

he better not give up his rifle. 

 

The building they packed 

us into at Gerolstein appeared 

to be a large two-story 

windowless warehouse. If I 

had to guess the number of 

prisoners held here, I would 

say 300, give or take 50. Many 

were in pretty bad shape. 

We were given a loaf of 

bread for five men per day. 1 

was given the bread to divide, 

and I still have the names and 

last four numbers of their serial 

numbers. Our water came 

out of a big open tank that 

was filled every day. I am sure 

this water tank was the reason 

that everyone came 

down with dysentery. I was 

there about five days when it 

hit me. No one had any 

change of clothes, and I 

might add that we had no toilet 

paper or any paper for that 

matter. We tried to keep the 

situation under control the 

best we could. 

 

A large railroad spur and 

siding was near the camp, 

and the Air Force had a ball 

blowing the hell out of it. I’m 

sure they knew we were in the 

building because they never 

hit us once. A few of us found 

out that if we worked on repairing 

the railroad we could 

get extra bread. They would 

take us out in the evening and 

down to the rail yard. We filled 

in bomb holes and moved 

bent and twisted track out of 

the way. Big deal. The next 

day, in came the B-25s and A- 

20s and blew the hell out of it 

again. This meant we worked 

that night and ate more bread 

then our ration. 

 

One night … we were working 

on the railroad when one 

of the prisoners was shot. 

When we got back, the other 

guys said he refused to get out 

of his bunk and a guard killed 

him. The body was laying out 

in the snow when we saw it. 

His dog tags had been given 

to the commandant of the 

prison. 

The guard that did the 

shooting was never identified. 

The body laid in the 

snow for two days and became 

frozen solid. We tried to 

get him buried and finally 

they let us do it. Four of us 

volunteered to go on burial 

detail. There was a church 

about half a block from the 

prison with a cemetery behind 

it. No one said any 

words. It was pretty quiet, and 

we all had our own thoughts. 

Our guards took us back to 

the prison and we just hoped 

that his parents would know 

something. 

 

We had some unique 

means of recreation at Gerolstein. 

We would sit around 

and talk about food. We took 

turns making up a dish we 

most craved. My personal favorite 

was a sliced Milky Way 

between two buttered pancakes 

and swimming in 

maple syrup. We all had a wild 

desire for something sweet. 

When you are that hungry, 

you dream every night about 

food. 

 

One morning the guards 

wanted two of us for a detail. 

It was always good to grab 

these because you got outside 

of that stinkhole we were living 

in. They took us to a building, 

still in the prison, and 

told us to unload about 20 

bags of barley off a truck. We 

unloaded the truck and put 

the bags in a warehouse. 

In the warehouse, we found 

a can with about one gallon of 

benzene in it. As we stacked 

up these 20 or so bags, we 

poured about one cup of this 

benzene (gasoline) on each 

bag. The guards were in the 

cab of the truck and could not 

see us. When we told them we 

were done they sent us back 

to the stockade. 

The next day we were told 

we were going to get a treat, 

some new soup. They had 

cooked up this barley and 

were going to give it to us 

until they found out we had 

ruined it. 

 

(As a result the commandant) 

threw our asses in the 

pens. When I say pen, that is 

what they were, dog pens. 

There were four pens in a row 

and two were used for the 

guard dogs and the other two 

was for us. No food, just a cup 

of water a day. Cold as hell 

and couldn’t sleep even if we 

could. 

We pulled punishment for 

five days or so. What we did 

should have carried more 

punishment than it did. We 

were very lucky. 

 

When we got out, the guys 

gave us what little food they 

had been able to save for us. I 

will never forget that. Lost a 

couple of pounds those few 

days in the pen. After this little 

event, Ed (a friend in the 

camp) and I did some serious 

talking about parting company 

with our hosts. 

 

Our takeoff day was scheduled 

for Feb. 5. Our plan was 

to get up on (an elevated) latrine, 

and in all the confusion 

lay down on the floor of this 

thing, let the guys step over us 

and wait till they all went 

back into the building. Our 

only hope was none of the 

guards would use the latrine. 

They very seldom did because 

they had their own in 

the guard shack. 

We made sure we were in 

the last group of about 15 or 

16 guys. The guards counted, 

but it was so cold and the 

bunch helped us by milling 

around, so they just rushed 

them into the prison. Ed and I 

laid there in the cold for some 

time waiting for things to settle 

down. We had to loosen a 

board to lean up on the back 

wall of this posh outhouse. It 

had to reach up about eight 

feet. The best thing going for 

us was the weather. The 

guards didn’t like the cold any 

more than we did so they 

stayed out of it as much as 

they could. 

At about 11 o’clock we 

pulled the board up with as 

little noise as possible and 

leaned it up to the wall. Ed 

went up first and went over 

the bricks. I was right behind 

him, and I went over. The 

night was rather clear and 

you could see pretty good on 

the white snow. 

 

We … headed west, about a 

half mile when we came upon 

a railroad engine that had 

been bombed and blown the 

track down into a little gully. 

The cab was laying at a 45-degree 

angle on its side so we 

climbed into a side window. 

Inside we hit the jackpot — it 

still had wood and coal in it. 

Next found some canvas, covered 

the exposed window, 

and with the few matches we 

had, built a fire. 

 

We woke up before daylight 

and decided we better make 

some time before it got too 

light because we could only 

travel at night. Just before 

dawn we saw a farm with a 

barn out back, so we headed 

for it. The farmer had two 

cows and a few chickens, plus 

a small haymow next to the 

roof. There were no lights in 

the farmhouse, so we figured 

the farmer was still sleeping. 

Being half starved to death, 

we figured a little fresh milk 

would hit the spot. 

I found a little pan that 

looked like the pan you would 

give the cats some milk in, 

and Ed proceeded to milk the 

cow. He got about a pint and 

handed it to me to drink. 

Should have known what 

warm milk would do to a 

stomach in our shape. 

 

Ed had what looked 1ike an 

ax handle he found in the 

barn and carried it over his 

shoulder like a mace. This 

night was really dark with low 

cloud cover. As we were walking 

along, we could see the 

dim outline of a building 

along the track. We are sure it 

was a station. It had a ramp 

going up to the platform, and 

we walked up it. Ed just got 

up when we heard, “Halt!” We 

froze in our tracks. I could just 

make out the outline of a man 

not three or four feet from 

me. I was between him and 

Ed, and I felt Ed reach over 

and push me back very easy. 

Then, swoosh. He swung that 

handle. We heard it hit 

around his helmet and neck 

and he went down. We took 

off on a run down that station 

platform. 

 

We walked the rest of the 

night headed for Prum. As we 

are walking along the track, 

we heard big artillery going 

over our heads back into Germany. 

We were sure (they 

were 155 mm guns) and 

American. What we soon 

found out is they were blowing 

up the damn rails we were 

walking on. One hit behind us 

about 100 hundred yards 

when we fell to the ground. I 

was between the tracks, and 

Ed was on the outside, next to 

where a round hit. The tracks 

protected me from most of 

the concussion, but Ed took it 

on his right side. At least none 

of the shrapnel got either of 

us. I went to him and asked if 

he was all right. That’s when I 

saw the blood coming from 

his ear. He seemed OK, except 

for the blood, so we 

headed on down the tracks 

and got into Prum just before 

daylight. 

The first building we saw 

was a big church that we were 

coming up to from the rear. 

Decided to hole up in it. 

It had quite a bit of bomb 

damage and the roof was half 

gone. This was all on the 10th 

of February. At this point, we 

ran out of railroad tracks and 

decided to wait for the Americans 

or whoever to come to 

us. Still nothing to eat. 

As we are scrounging 

around in the back of the 

church, we heard a noise out 

in the main part. I had an old, 

rusted-shut “burp gun” with 

no ammo. Anyway, I peeked 

around the altar right into the 

eyes of a German soldier. He 

had taken his pack off and 

had it and his gun laying on 

the seat and he was at the rail 

praying. He saw my gun 

aimed at him and got almost 

as scared as I was. He didn’t 

know that the gun didn’t work 

so here we are at a stand off. 

After what seemed an eternity, 

the Kraut got up, picked 

up his pack and weapon and 

headed out the back of the 

church. I scooted to the back 

and peeked out the door. He 

just joined up with a couple 

of other soldiers and walked 

away. 

 

After the incident with the 

German soldier in the 

church, figured we had better 

move. From the church we 

could see a large house about 

50 yards away on another 

street. We ducked through 

back lots and went into a 

blown-out section, in the rear 

of house. 

On the morning of the 13th 

of February, we were hearing 

a lot of machine gun and 

small-arms fire to the west, 

near the edge of town. I went 

upstairs to take a peek out the 

front door. Could not see a 

thing, so I stepped out a little 

to see the main street. 

Just as I did that, a squad of 

Germans were going down 

that street, led by an officer. 

He waved and beckoned to 

me to come out and join 

them. They were evacuating 

the town, and I’m sure he 

thought I was a German soldier. 

At that distance, our uniforms 

did not give a clue. I regret 

what followed but it had 

to be. 

I do not know what possessed 

him to come down to 

that house alone. He came 

down yelling at me to come. I 

called to Ed and he came running 

upstairs to the door. I 

had the bayonet and Ed was 

on the right side and me on 

the left. He came right into 

the house telling us to come 

with him. Ed grabbed him 

and I hit him with the 

bayonet. 

I had hit him in the belt and 

all it did was knock the wind 

from him and he went forward. 

I then made a hard 

thrust at his throat and felt it 

enter him. He slid down and 

Ed went with him. At first, 

with all the blood, I thought I 

had stabbed Ed in the arm. 

The blade went through Ed’s 

sleeve and pinned him to the 

German. 

 

We pulled the body back 

into the room and that’s when 

I got sick at my stomach and 

threw up what I had in it. We 

ran down the stairs to the 

basement and stood by the 

hole we first entered. If we 

heard soldiers come in upstairs, 

we planned to run over 

to the church. We waited and 

waited. No one came to check 

on him. After about what 

seemed a half hour, I went up 

the stairs. He was still laying 

there, and the squad he was 

with was gone. They never 

even came to check why he 

never came back. 

 

Along about three o’clock 

we were hiding in a small fruit 

cellar, when we heard noises 

upstairs. We got in the cellar 

because of the small-arms 

fire — we could tell it was just 

houses away. 

We had decided we weren’t 

going to be taken again. Pretty 

brave talk for a couple of 

guys with a luger between 

them and scared to death. We 

knew whoever was outside 

was in the basement. All of a 

sudden, we heard someone 

say, “This f—-ing room is 

clear!” 

Ed reached for the door and 

pulled it open saying, 

“They’re Americans.” 

As the door flew open, one 

of the GIs whirled around 

and came down on Ed with 

his M1. Ed fell to his knees 

yelling, “We’re Americans! 

Don’t shoot!” 

 

To this day, I think had this 

GI been an old campaigner, 

he would have shot into that 

dark room and then checked. 

Lucky for us, he just held the 

rifle on us and told us to put 

up our hands. They still 

weren’t convinced we were 

Americans since Germans 

had been dressing in GI uniforms 

at the Bulge. We didn’t 

care. We were back in American 

hands and knew we 

could convince them real 

soon. 


 


 

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full field packs, missing the 

first invasion of Normandy. 

 

The remains of the June 6 

invasion were a shock to us. 

We realized then that we were 

in a war. We were trucked to 

another buildup area where 

we were assigned to Patton’s 

3rd Army 10th Core. On Aug. 

8, we were ordered to advance 

to Le Mans, France, 

heading into combat, after a 

long trip by truck to Pain 

D‘Vaine. 

In little time, as we advanced, 

the town of Evron 

was in the 80th’s hands with 

our 3rd Battalion holding the 

area until we felt secure with 

it. The battle scenes are 

something I have tried all 

these years to block out of my 

memory, so I will not write 

about them. War is a terrible 

thing of death and destruction. 

 

On Sept. 6, our 3rd Battalion 

moved on to Pont A 

Mousson, France, to force a 

crossing of the Moselle River. 

Things went from bad to 

worse here. The Germans 

were holding the Siegfried 

Line, refusing to budge. We 

needed more help and had 

been told help was on the 

way, but not soon enough. 

That evening, under cover 

of darkness, we crossed the 

river, but the Germans discovered 

we were there. So we 

had to dig slit trenches into 

the bank for the rest of the 

night. 

About 2 o’clock in the 

morning, we were fired upon. 

Daybreak came and I looked 

up from my slit trench to see 

a German soldier standing 

over me with fixed bayonet. 

He began shouting, “Rouse! 

Comrade! Rouse!” I then saw 

that several of my men had 

been wounded and killed. My 

buddy, Raymond Durnrouf, 

of Pittsburgh, had been 

wounded. Raymond Eckhart 

of my squadron had been 

killed. 

We were ordered to drop 

everything. One soldier 

reached to pick up his gun 

and was shot. 

 

We were then forced to 

march under German fixed 

bayonets to a barn in a big 

open field. I was among the 

last of the march and saw a 

little J-3 Piper cub plane, used 

for spotting American artillery, 

flying on the horizon; I 

heard a shell coming. 

The shell blew the barn up 

where some of the captured 

had already entered. 

The Germans took the 

wounded that were able to 

walk and those of us not 

wounded to a house in the 

village of Commercy. As we 

marched, again I heard shells 

coming. American artillery, 

resulting from the spotting of 

the same J-3 I had seen earlier, 

was firing a rolling barrage 

on the tail end of our column. 

This time the last man who 

was left in my squadron, Dominic 

Palobard from 

Philadelphia, was wounded. I 

helped get him to a barn at 

the edge of the village where 

first aid came and took him 

away. We were held in the 

barn over night without food. 

 

The next morning we were 

put on a train to Zweibrucken. 

The train was unmarked 

and American planes strafed 

it. Luckily no one was hurt. 

From Zweibrucken we were 

put on a passenger train for 

Limburg, Germany, and 

taken to a temporary prison 

camp, Prison Camp XIIA, 

where we slept on the cold 

ground under a big tent without 

blankets. There were 

three tents, each measuring 

about 100 by 50 feet. Once 

again we were given the watered-down 

cabbage soup 

with a piece of black bread. 

This we got once a day while 

we were there. 

 

On Sept. 23, we were put on 

a 40-by-8-foot boxcar. Half of 

the box was filled with POWs. 

The guards had the other 

half. We traveled by train for 

four days and three nights. All 

I had to eat was what I had 

left from my Red Cross package, 

so I would only take a few 

nibbles at a time to make it 

last longer. In one corner of 

the car there was a 50-gallon 

drum that was used as the latrine. 

When the train stopped 

or started the POW who was 

next to the drum got sloshed. 

 

I was among around 2,000 

men who arrived at Stalag 

IIIC, a prison camp near Alt 

Drewitz, Germany, on Sept. 

27, 1944. I then became Sgt. 

Carl D. Roof 86-632. 

The camp was composed of 

four compounds or blocks, 

each block separated and 

surrounded by barbed wire 

fencing and patrolled by 

guards and dogs in the 

“streets” and guard towers 

between blocks. Each compound 

or block contained 

several administration and 

storage sheds, a hospital unit, 

latrine, air-raid shelter and 10 

(more or less) housing units. 

All the buildings were wooden 

shacks and were infested 

with lice and bedbugs. 

 

There were two to three 

rooms to a housing shack or 

barracks, each about 15 by 8 

feet with about 35 to 40 men 

to a room. As you entered my 

shack, you entered into a 

small hallway with two rooms 

on either side. 

The room to your left was 

empty and identical to the 

room across the hall. My 

room was on the right and 

housed about 35 men. On the 

wall opposite the doorway of 

the room I shared, there were, 

hanging across the back wall, 

two rows of wooden shelves 

about 4 to 5 feet wide, extending 

the length of the wall. 

The lower shelf was on the 

floor, the upper shelf about 3 

to 4 feet above the lower shelf. 

There were two more shelves 

hanging on the wall that 

backed the hallway. 

We hung a few boxes randomly 

from the walls between 

and above the shelves, 

using these for our few personal 

items. Small windows 

about 18 inches wide and 

several feet high were on either 

side of the building; two 

on the right one on the left, 

separating the two opposing 

shelved walls. 

We slept on the bare wooden 

shelves under a thin blanket 

we had been given, using 

our clothing as pillows with 

our heads or feet to the wall, 

in about 1 to 2 feet of space, 

depending on how many 

men were in the “bunk” at the 

time. We hung what few 

clothes we had on old nails, 

wire or string we stole or 

scavenged. 

 

There was a pot-bellied 

stove in the center of the 

room. We were given a ration 

of one lump of coal per man 

per week. I would steal loose 

boards off of shanties for 

wood: several times the latrine 

was the shanty of 

choice. 

Once a day we were given a 

cup of soup made with potatoes, 

rutabagas and horsemeat, 

along with a piece of 

black bread. 

The first one in line to eat 

got mostly the thin soup. If 

you were lucky to be last, the 

soup was thicker. We ate out 

of a tin can from our Red 

Cross package or one found 

from the kitchen garbage pile, 

and an old spoon. We had no 

soap so we used the sandy 

dirt and water to scour our 

cans clean. 

There was never enough 

food to satisfy your hunger. I 

often raided the garbage pile 

for the potato peelings. 

 

We made a little stove from 

cans saved from our Red 

Cross packages or some 

string and a can of sterno. 

Whatever we could find or 

bribe from the guards we 

cooked on the stove. The 

guards wanted the American 

cigarettes that we got from 

our Red Cross packages. Cigarettes 

sold for $86 in Berlin. I 

didn’t smoke so they were 

great to barter with. 

I did whatever I could to get 

something to barter with the 

guards. I collected GIs’ 

clothes and washed them in 

the boiler room, which was 

coal- and wood-fired. I 

washed a lot of socks and underwear 

for cigarettes, and 

used my cigarettes to get 

bread from the guards. Most 

of us spoke no German, so we 

had to use a lot of hand signals 

and sounds to get them 

to understand us. 

The guards would stuff 

everything in their pants to 

sneak it into the compound. 

They stuffed bread down 

their pant legs with the ankles 

of the pants tied to keep the 

bread from falling out and 

wore long coats to hide them. 

A loaf of bread cost us five 

cigarettes when we first got 

there. 

 

Nothing went to waste. We 

saved everything, no matter 

how little, and could always 

find a use for it. If we could 

find paper, we would twist it 

tightly, light it and burn the 

bedbugs that were in the 

cracks of the wall. 

This was one of the ways we 

passed the time. The problem 

was, only the guys in the top 

bunk could do that because 

we had more wall space, 

since the walls were 10 feet 

high, and the guy in the bottom 

bunk didn’t have much 

room to chase the bugs up or 

down the wall. 

We passed time any way we 

could. In one of our Red Cross 

packages we received a 

wartime log book. I passed a 

lot of time drawing, writing 

poems, and going around 

and getting people to sign my 

log. 

We read, played cards or 

games, whatever we could 

think of to take our mind off 

our depressing, bleak conditions 

and hunger for food and 

home. 

Each day was a chore to endure. 

Twice a month we were 

taken to the laundry room 

where we stripped and had 

our clothes deloused. These 

were the clothes we were captured 

in. We had no changes. 

Our clothes were put through 

heat, some way, but never 

washed. While that was being 

done we got under the shower. 

The guards would turn the 

water on for a brief minute, 

then off. We soaped up. Water 

back on and rinse quickly. If 

you didn’t get enough water 

to rinse the soap off, that was 

your tough luck. We were 

given our clothes back and 

escorted back to our bunks. 

 

As time went on we managed 

to hang on, never really 

giving up. Christmas came 

and we received our life-saving 

Red Cross packages. Theses 

packages came about 

every week. 

This one contained a 12- 

ounce can of mixed candies, 

a 12-ounce box of bouillon 

cubes, an 8-ounce can of 

cherries, a 4-ounce can of Vienna 

sausage, an 8-ounce 

can of Spam, a 12-ounce can 

of boned turkey, a 12-ounce 

can of plum pudding, a 7- 

ounce can of mixed nuts, a 

14-ounce box of hydrated 

dates, a 3-ounce can of preserved 

butter, a 4-ounce can 

of processed American 

cheese, a 4-ounce can of deviled 

ham, two fruit bars, four 

packs of gum, three packs of 

cigarettes, a game, a box of 

playing cards, a 6-ounce can 

of jam, a face cloth, a pipe, 

pipe tobacco and a box of tea. 

Each room managed to share 

their own Christmas dinner. 

Some of the prisoners made 

an American flag out of an old 

piece of white cloth they 

found. They boiled red and 

blue crayons in water and 

used their fingers to paint the 

colors on the flag. That flag 

was put up the day we were 

liberated. 

 

At the end of January things 

began to change; we could 

sense something was about 

to happen. Late the night of 

Jan. 30, the Germans came in 

with their guns and bayonets 

and informed us we were 

moving out of camp. 

Early the next morning we 

were ordered out. We tried to 

kill as much time as we could 

that morning because we anticipated 

we were about to be 

liberated. The Germans were 

moving all the camp because 

the Allied forces were approaching. 

We were forced to 

leave. 

We were forced to march 

east toward the Russian front. 

My company was about a 

mile from the camp’s gate 

when word came back 

through the ranks to turn 

back to the camp as fast as we 

could. 

We were hearing a lot of artillery 

and small-arms firing, 

so we knew it must be the 

Russians and liberation was 

close at hand. Maybe. 

Because most of the Germans 

were ahead of us, we 

turned around and ran back 

into camp, as fast as we 

could. By the time the first 

company reached the gate 

the German guards had arrived 

and blocked the entrance, 

refusing to let them 

back into camp. They forced 

them to march to the west, 

keeping them under German 

control. 

After we had run back into 

the camp, the German guards 

came in ordering us out 

again. We refused. We stalled 

for time and our hopes were 

high. Then the guards ordered 

us to move out again. 

We refused again. 

In about an hour’s time the 

Russians were at the gate with 

a tank column with a Russian 

woman as tank commander. 

They captured the German 

guards and told us to stay put; 

they would take us out later. 

There were a few small storage 

and supply shacks in the 

compound. Some POWs were 

coming out of one of the 

shacks when the Germans 

strafed the compound with 

butterfly bombs. Two POWs 

were killed. One guy, whom I 

had known before I went into 

the service, but didn’t know 

he was in the compound, was 

one of those killed. 

He was William Calhoun 

from Shelocta, Pennsylvania. 

Every Sunday we had a 

Protestant church service 

with Francis Florence as our 

lay chaplain. 

Francis asked me to help 

him build a box in which to 

bury Bill. Some others made 

the box for the other POW. 

Francis held a burial service 

for our dead friends. 

 

Six of us POWs decided we 

would stick together. Steve 

Matthews from New York (I’m 

not sure where); Sam Mobelio, 

from Belleville, N.J.; 

Louis Bettinelli, from McKeesport, 

Pa.; James Jones 

from Easton, Pa.; Tom Morrow 

from Lancaster, Ohio; 

and myself. 

We knew we had to get to 

Warsaw, Poland, but had no 

idea which way to start. We 

found some geography books 

containing maps at a farm 

and began walking toward 

Warsaw until we found some 

bicycles. We abandoned the 

bikes, got on a train loaded 

with Russian soldiers and 

their wives. 

When we found out the 

train was going the wrong 

way we jumped off, the trains 

didn‘t move very fast, and 

started walking again. At 

night we would try to find 

Polish families, who were 

glad to help out and take us 

in. They would feed us and 

give us a nice warm place to 

sleep, often giving us their 

own beds. Tom and Sam 

could speak and understand 

enough Polish language for 

us to get by on. 

 

The last day on the road, 

before we got to Warsaw, we 

came across an American 

army truck driven by Russian 

soldiers. We managed to get 

them to understand that we 

were American Gls who were 

trying to get back into American 

control. One POW was 

wearing his wedding ring and 

a Russian soldier decided that 

he should have it. There were 

some scary moments over 

that but the Russian didn’t get 

the ring. 

 

On Feb. 23, 1945, the Russians 

got us into Warsaw 

where we immediately went 

to see the commandant or 

mayor of the town. We had 

been doing that in every town 

to be sure we were on the 

right route. In Warsaw we 

were told more ex-POWS 

were expected and a train 

would take all of us to Odessa, 

Russia. 

 

Over 1,925 miles later, 

much of it walked, on March 

1, 1945, we arrived in Odessa 

and were put on a supply ship 

and sailed for Port Said, 

Egypt. We anchored at Dardanelles 

on the Aegean Sea to 

take on drinking water. That 

is where the U.S. Army knew 

for sure that I was alive. We 

docked at Port Said, Egypt, 

March 13, where we were interrogated, 

issued new clothing 

and then put on a small 

ship that sailed down the 

Suez Canal. 

We disembarked at Saudi 

Arabia and spent a few days. 

When an American ship had 

unloaded and taken on supplies 

we boarded it for 

Naples, Italy. We anchored in 

Naples and went to a compound 

overlooking the 

Mediterranean Sea. While we 

spent the week here, Steve 

wanted to go to the opera, so 

Sam and I went with him. 

That was the first and only 

opera I have attended and 

was quite an experience. I 

even had a free box seat. 

 

As soon as the first ship for 

America was ready to sail we 

boarded it bound for home. 

We sailed through the Strait 

of Gibraltar, what a beautiful 

sight that was to see, arriving 

in Boston, Mass., April 5, 

1945. From Boston we were 

taken to Camp Miles Standish 

and given a 30-day furlough. 

The six of us had made it 

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Life aboard ‘Joker’ was serious business 


WALLY McGAUGHEY, standing, second from right, was part of the 532nd Squadron of the 381st Bombardment Group. 

By MIKE PETERSEN 

mepetersen@indianagazette.net 

Like a lot of other 21-yearolds, 

Wally McGaughey 

tried to enlist in the military 

in early 1942 as the U.S. 

geared up for war following 

the Japanese attack on Pearl 

Harbor. 

McGaughey had thoughts 

of becoming a pilot, so he 

and two high school buddies 

headed to Pittsburgh, where 

they planned to apply for 

cadet school to learn to fly. 

The trip turned out to be a 

disappointment when a sergeant 

told them they needed 

two years of college to be eligible 

for cadet school. That 

disappointment deepened 

when they tried to enlist in 

the Army Air Corps and a sergeant 

there told them the 

corps wasn’t accepting enlistments 

at that time. 

“I could have been a pilot,” 

McGaughey, now 91, said 

during a recent interview at 

his home in White Township. 

“I could have been a pilot 

with ease … but they didn’t 

see it my way.” 

McGaughey and his friends 

returned to Indiana, where he 

was able to resume his job as 

a driver/salesman for the former 

Greiner Bakery in Indiana. 

Within months, though, 

he received a draft notice and 

entered the Army in August 

1942. Ironically, the Army assigned 

him to — the Air 

Corps. 

He was, indeed, going to fly 

— not in the pilot’s seat, but 

as a gunner in the ball turret 

protruding from the belly of a 

B-17 Flying Fortress, facing 

Nazi warplanes and anti-aircraft 

fire on 25 bombing missions 

in 1943 over Germany 

and occupied Europe. For his 

service in the much-heralded 

831st Bombardment Group, a 

part of the storied Eighth Air 

Force, McGaughey was 

awarded a Distinguished Flying 

Cross with four Oak Leaf 

Clusters. 

❏ ❏ ❏ 

Born and raised in Indiana 

County, McGaughey and the 

men drafted with him were 

sworn into the Army at Altoona 

before heading off to 

the boardwalk and beach in 

Atlantic City for basic training. 

With the nation mobilized 

for war, Atlantic City 

had hotels full of troops, Mc- 

Gaughey said, recalling that 

3,500 soldiers were fed at one 

of the city’s hotels. Pulling KP 

duty there could last 14-15 

hours, he said. 

Marching was a challenge. 

“Try doing close-order drill 

on the sand,” he recalled. “At 

the end of the day you think 

your legs are going to drop 

off.” 

McGaughey did gunnery 

training in Fort Myers, Fla., 

before going to Pyote, Texas, 

where the crew of 10 — four 

officers and six enlisted men 

— was formed and had their 

plane assigned to them. He 

said they trained in the 

bomber there for about 13 

weeks. 

The 381st had four 

squadrons of nine planes, 

each with a crew of 10. Mc- 

Gaughey’s plane was part of 

the 532nd Squadron. The 

crew called its plane “The 

Joker.” 

In a 2000 story in the 

Gazette, McGaughey said the 

name came from a card 

turned up by a crew member 

while they were playing cards 

during a break in training. 

The design of the card was 

painted on the plane. 

“With the history of that 

airplane — it was the only 

original B-17 that survived in 

that squadron — it should 

have been preserved,” Mc- 

Gaughey said. After its flying 

days were over, he said, the 

plane “was sent back to the 

States to help sell war bonds.” 

After the war, he said, “They 

stripped it of anything usable 

and (scrapped) it for metal.” 

Once their training was 

complete in Texas, the 381st 

flew across the Atlantic to 

England. As they waited for 

orders to take off, the crew 

was warned against letting 

the plane unguarded, so the 

six noncommissioned officers, 

including McGaughey, 

pulled four-hour guard shifts, 

fully armed with live ammunition. 

“The whole 381st Bomb 

Group took off one at a time,” 

he said, and the planes went 

into formation for the transoceanic 

flight. “Eventually, we 

went the northern route and 

ended up in Scotland first. … 

Then we landed at Ridgewell 

Air Base in Essex, England.” 

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Twenty-five was the magic 

number for the bomb crews 

serving in 1943. “The Joker” 

flew its first missions over 

France and Belgium starting 

on June 8. Its last mission was 

more than five months later 

on Nov. 16. 

“At that time, in 1943, starting 

in 1942 when they started 

the first bombing, your tour 

was 25 missions. Once you’d 

done that, you were done. 

Starting in 1944, they increased 

it to 35. Finally, it 

ended up at 50. But, of 

course, by that time we had 

control of the air. … It was no 

picnic, but it was a hell of a lot 

safer then.” 


McGAUGHEY proudly displayed his medals and memorabilia 

honoring his brother-in-law, a Medal of Honor winner. 

McGaughey’s workplace, 

once the plane got airborne, 

was in the ball turret, a bulbous 

contraption covered 

with thick glass and extending 

from the bottom of the 

plane. It was a tough place to 

work. According to the 

Wikipedia website, the turret 

was designed to be as small 

as possible to reduce drag on 

the plane. To enter the turret, 

it was moved until the guns 

were pointed straight down. 

The gunner placed his feet in 

the heel rests and then 

crouched down into a fetal 

position. He would then put 

on a safety strap, close and 

lock the turret door and rotate 

into position. 

McGaughey said the turret 

was equipped with twin 50- 

caliber machine guns that 

could each fire 780 rounds 

per minute. The gunner used 

hand controls to fire the machine 

guns and to rotate the 

turret 360 degrees horizontally 

and 180 degrees vertically, 

even both ways at the same 

time. 

Because of the freezing 

temperatures at higher altitudes, 

“We wore electrically 

heated suits,” he explained. 

“You put them on, zipped it 

up. The shoes plugged into 

the leg. The gloves plugged 

into the sleeve. (It was) wired 

in series so if there was a malfunction 

anyplace, the whole 

thing went out.” 

(More about that later.) 

Because of the tight quarters, 

“I couldn’t put a parachute 

on,” McGaughey said. 

“Usually when we loaded for 

a mission, it took at least two 

hours to form a formation. 

Around the turret on the way 

into the radio room was a 

wooden platform. I threw my 

parachute up in the corner, 

laid down and took a nap.” 

He got in the turret “as soon 

as the pilot gave the command,” 

he said. 

“Anywhere from 10,000 feet 

up, you were on oxygen. You 

had to get in the turret.” 

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“At that time in ’43, the Luftwaffe 

(the German air force) 

was very active. They were 

coming up by the hundreds,” 

McGaughey said in a 2002 

Gazette story. McGaughey recalled 

that the bomber crews 

had to endure heavy anti-aircraft 

fire during their missions, 

which lasted five to 10 

hours. On two occasions The 

Joker lost engines to the 

enemy flak, and after one 

bombing run, the crew 

counted 78 holes in the plane 

from shrapnel of the exploding 

anti-aircraft shells. 

It seems the B-17 really was 

a Flying Fortress. “I’ve seen 

them come back with just 

damage you couldn’t survive 

and they would still fly 

home,” he said. 

Despite the best efforts of 

men and machines, casualties 

were high for the bomber 

crews. The missions were carried 

out during daylight without 

fighter support. 

McGaughey said The Joker 

was the only plane from their 

squadron to survive and just 

18 men from the original 

squadron survived the fighting, 

a total that included nine 

of The Joker’s 10 crew members, 

who survived “without a 

scratch.” 

“I had a couple nicks on my 

turret from flak. Bounced 

right off that curved surface,” 

he said. 

The lone casualty from The 

Joker’s crew was the original 

co-pilot, whose plane was 

shot down after he had taken 

reassignment as its pilot. The 

loss hit The Joker’s crew 

members hard. 

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For years McGaughey was 

reluctant to talk about his experiences 

during the war, but 

time and distance seem to 

have taken some of the pain 

out of the memories of what 

he saw and did. 

He recalled with pride his 

first confirmed kill of a German 

fighter plane. “The day I 

got credit for my first kill … all 

of sudden I get a call from tail 

gunner” who said his guns 

had jammed and that there 

were four German Messerschmitt 

109s on their tail. 

As he recounted the incident 

in 2002, McGaughey 

said that when he swung his 

turret around, he spotted the 

planes “at about 600 yards 

and commenced firing. All of 

a sudden the lead plane 

swerved off. … He was smoking. 

Then all of a sudden 

there was a ball of fire.” 

McGaughey believes he 

might have hit a second 

plane that day, but it could 

not be confirmed. He did, 

however, get credit for a second 

kill on another mission. 

Some of the most difficult 

times for McGaughey may 

have been during the latter 

part of his tour in early October 

1943. Since midsummer 

that year the Allies had been 

ramping up the air war 

against German industrial 

production, targeting manufacturing 

plants along with 

airfields and airports to keep 

the Nazis’ planes out of the 

air. In one six-day stretch, 

McGaughey flew three missions 

aboard three different 

B-17s, serving as the ball turret 

gunner on bombing runs 

over Germany against targets 

in Frankfurt (Oct. 4), Bremen 

(Oct. 8) and Amklam (Oct 9). 

“No matter how, they had 

to get you out there. If your 

plane stayed back, they 

found another one for you,” 

he said. “They got you out 

there, come hell or high 

water. It didn’t make any difference 

what else was going 

on.” 

On other missions, even if 

enemy resistance was limited, 

The Joker crew had to 

contend with the elements 

and even human biology. 

On the way home from the 

crew’s last mission — entirely 

over water to Norway to 

bomb a mine producing 

molybdenum used to harden 

steel — McGaughey had a nature 

call. He got the pilot’s approval 

to leave the turret and 

relieve himself. However, as 

he climbed back into the turret, 

closed the hatch and 

moved the turret around, 

wash from the propellers tore 

off the hatch, leaving him sitting 

essentially out of the 

plane from about the waist 

up at 10,000 to 12,000 feet. 

The prop wash also kept 

him from moving the turret 

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around so he could climb 

back out. Two other crew 

members were finally able to 

free him using the backup 

manual crank to turn the turret 

and help him out, chilled 

but with no frostbite. 

On another mission, Mc- 

Gaughey had a problem with 

his electrically heated flight 

suit (remember the one wired 

in series) while flying at 

28,000 to 28,500 feet under 

fire. The outside temperature 

was 51 degrees below zero. 

“It was pretty severe as far 

as enemy planes are concerned. 

I got a hot foot in my 

ankle (apparently from a 

short circuit. It) burnt me, 

then it went out. 

“So now I don’t have any 

heat and we’re still under fire. 

I waited for a little while. I 

thought, ‘Well, maybe things 

will (get better).’ Finally, I 

called, ‘Ball turret to pilot’ (to 

let him know what was happening).” 

The pilot replied, “You get 

the hell out of there.” 

The two waist gunners had 

to help McGaughey out of the 

turret and into the radio 

room, the only heated area 

on the plane. They also 

wrapped his feet in a sheepskin 

jacket to help warm 

them up. 

“I almost had frozen feet,” 

McGaughey said. “To this day, 

I have no feeling in the bottoms 

of my feet.” 

❏ ❏ ❏ 

McGaughey returned to the 

U.S. in December 1943 and 

ended up back in Fort Myers 

for the duration of the war as 

a radio mechanic. He 

laughed as he explained that 

his secondary job specialty 

had been as a backup radio 

operator aboard The Joker. 

“I made it as radio operator, 

not a mechanic. (I told the 

sergeant) I can’t repair a 

radio.” 

Nevertheless, the Army 

made him a radio mechanic 

for the next 24 months. His 

modus operandi “I would 

take a new one that was already 

fixed off the shelf, ... 

take out the old one that was 

broken and put that (new one 

in the plane). That was it.” 

McGaughey left the service 

as a staff sergeant in 1945 and 

returned to Indiana County. 

He and his wife, Anne, wed 

in 1948 and were married for 

63 years until her death on 

Oct. 24. 

His wife’s brother, John 

Dutko, is one of nine Medal of 

Honor winners from Indiana 

County. Dutko was killed May 

23, 1944, in fighting near 

Ponte Rotto, Italy, while carrying 

out a one-man assault 

on three German machine 

guns and a self-propelled 88 

mm gun. He was 27. For his 

bravery, Dutko also received 

the Italian Cross of Valor. The 

Homer City American Legion 

home is named in his honor. 

McGaughey has five surviving 

children, including two 

from his wife’s first marriage, 

nine grandchildren and 12 

great-grandchildren. Another 

child, Karen, tragically died in 

a household accident at 18 

months. 

Gesturing toward his missing 

left arm, McGaughey said, 

“This is not from the war” but 

from an accident in 1950. He 

said he was driving on Route 

286 south of Indiana with his 

arm hanging out the window 

when an oncoming truck 

passed by too closely, taking 

off most of his arm. 

By 1952, McGaughey was 

getting his start in the insurance 

business, eventually 

owning his own company, Indiana 

Insurance Consultants, 

which he sold when he retired 

in 1991. 

To this day, McGaughey’s 

war years remain a vital part 

of his life. In addition to his 

Distinguished Flying Cross, 

he was also inducted in 2002 

into the Hall of Valor at the 

Soldiers and Sailors National 

Military Museum and Memorial 

in Pittsburgh. 

Earlier this summer he attended 

the annual reunion of 

the 831st Bomb Group in 

Dayton, Ohio. His attendance 

has been spotty in recent 

years, he said, because of his 

late wife’s long illness. One of 

the highlights of the reunion 

for him this year was a 

chance to get together again 

with Joseph Walters, a Pittsburgh 

native now living in 

Florida who turned 99 during 

the reunion. 

How they first got together 

is a story in itself. 

McGaughey said he was at a 

meeting in Pittsburgh five or 

six years ago when a stranger 

sitting next to him told the 

group that he had been part 

of the 535nd Squadron of the 

831st Bomb Group when the 

bombers made their first 

strike on a ball bearing factory 

in Schweinfurt, Germany, 

on Aug. 17, 1943. 

McGaughey was surprised. 

He had been aboard The 

Joker on the same mission. 

“I was in the formation in 

my plane when his plane … 

they had to bail out and the 

plane exploded,” he said. 

Walters told him that after 

bailing out, he landed in an 

apple tree where a Belgian 

man and his son found him. 

Walters had broken an arm 

and suffered cuts, but otherwise 

was OK. At great risk to 

themselves, the father and 

son helped Walters get back 

to England by December, just 

four months later. 

That chance meeting in 

Pittsburgh has led to friendship 

between the two veterans 

who had unknowingly 

taken part in the same mission 

nearly 70 years ago. 

Of that first meeting with 

Walters, McGaughey said, 

“We spent that day, believe 

me, talking.” 

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FRANK KINTER is pictured at his home below two of the ships 

he served on during the war. 



Frank Kinter, born Aug. 

8, 1924, graduated from 

high school in June 

1942 at the age of 17. Rather 

than waiting until he was 

drafted at 18, he enlisted in 

the Navy, with his parents’ 

permission. 

He completed boot camp 

in Rhode Island and afterward 

was sent to Wentworth 

Institute of Technology in 

Boston. 

He graduated a machinist 

mate third class. 

The first ship he was assigned 

to was the USS Upshur 

(DD-144). A destroyerclass 

ship, the Upshur was 

responsible for escorting a 

convoy of ships across the 

Atlantic Ocean. 

Kinter’s first trip across the 

ocean took him to Ireland 

while hunting for German 

U-boats that were threatening 

to sink the American 

ships. 

Upon his return to the U.S. 

in 1943, Kinter was assigned 

to a new ship: the USS Hickox 

(DD-673), a brand-new 

destroyer-class ship in Norfolk, 

Va. Kinter traveled the 

long trip from Virginia, 

south through the Panama 

Canal, north to San Diego, 

before finally joining with 

the Fifth Fleet in Pearl Harbor. 

Aboard the Hickox, he 

worked as a water tender in 

the ship’s boiler room. This 

was someone who was responsible 

for tending to the 

fires and boilers in the engine 

room of a steam-powered 

ship. 

On his trip across the Pacific 

Ocean, Kinter crossed 

the equator and the International 

Date Line in the same 

day. 

In 1944, the Hickox participated 

in the initial bombardment 

of the Marshall Islands 

prior to the landing of 

troops on the islands. 

“We had the job of going 

in and softening everything 

up before anyone went 

ashore,” Kinter said. 

The Hickox went on to 

participate in almost every 

major battle for the islands 

in the Pacific, including engagements 

in New Guinea 

and the Marianas Islands. 

Kinter saw major action 

during the famed Battle of 

the Philippines Sea, a battle 

KINTER, in his Navy uniform. 

that saw the destruction of a 

large part of the Japanese 

Navy. 

Nicknamed “The Great 

Marianas Turkey Shoot” by 

the U.S. forces, Kinter remembers 

the sky being 

filled with Japanese fighter 

planes. 

“There was such an event 

happened that was called a 

‘turkey shoot,’” Kinter said. 

“That was when the air was 

just filled with Japanese 

planes and it was like shooting 

clay pigeons.” 

The Hickox was credited 

with shooting down five 

enemy aircraft and rescuing 

three American planes that 

had “splashed down” in the 

sea. 

By the end of the battle, 

the Japanese Navy had lost 

three carrier ships and hundreds 

of planes. 

Later, Kinter was part of 

the Battle of Leyte Gulf, or 

the “Second Battle of the 

Philippine Sea.” This battle 

was notable for Japan’s extensive 

use of kamikaze 

fighters against the American 

naval forces. 

At this point, the Hickox 

had become part of the U.S. 

Third Fleet, commanded 

by Adm. William “Bull” 

Halsey. 

A particularly frightening 

time for Kinter was the time 

the Hickox and the fleet 

sailed through Typhoon 

Cobra in 1944. 

Also called “Halsey’s Typhoon,” 

the tropical cyclone 

hit the Pacific fleet exceptionally 

hard after Halsey 

had mistakenly sailed the 

Third Fleet straight into the 

storm. 

With 150 mph winds and 

waves exceeding 50 feet, 

several ships were heavily 

damaged during the storm. 

Three destroyers, the USS 

Hull, the USS Monaghan 

and the USS Spence, sank in 

the harsh weather, taking 

almost 800 sailors with 

them. 

The Hickox, being only 

317 feet long, was very susceptible 

to damage in rough 

seas, as are all destroyerclass 

ships. Kinter described 

being in the mess hall during 

the storm. One moment 

he was leaning up against a 

stanchion, an upright support 

post, and the next moment 

he was lying on the 

floor. 

The ship was listing 69 degrees, 

he said. The mast was 

almost touching the water. 

After repairs to the ship, 

Kinter went on to participate 

in additional battles 

throughout the Pacific. The 

Hickox played an important 

role in the rescue of sailors 

from a heavily damaged carrier 

close to the Japanese 

mainland. 

The USS Franklin (CV-13) 

had maneuvered close to 

the mainland when it was 

struck in the center by a 

low-flying Japanese bomber. 

The bomb tore through several 

decks, lighting the fueled-up 

aircraft on its main 

deck and causing a massive 

fire. 

The ship began to list to 

the left, and some sailors 

began jumping from the 

ship to save their lives. 

The Hickox managed to 

pull up to the rear end of the 

Franklin, actually hitting the 

carrier to get close enough 

for the endangered sailors 

to get aboard. 

“Both ships had a dimple 

in them afterward,” Kinter 

said. 

Following his action in the 

Pacific, Kinter began to 

make his way back to the 

U.S. While crossing the Pacific, 

he learned that Halsey 

needed to make an appearance 

at the naval station in 

Guam. Coincidentally, Kinter’s 

sister, Margaret, was a 

lieutenant with the Navy 

Nurse Corps stationed in 

Guam. After receiving permission 

from his executive 

officer to go ashore, he was 

able to have dinner with his 

sister. 

In the end, the Hickox was 

awarded nine Bronze Stars 

for engagements in the Pacific. 

Kinter was discharged 

from the Navy in December 

1945. 

He returned to Homer City 

where he worked with FMC 

Technologies for 40 years 

until retiring. He now resides 

at St. Andrew’s Village 

in White Township. Kinter’s 

wife of nearly 65 years, Mary 

Ellen, passed away in July 

2010. 

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IN REMEMBRANCE 


Following is a list of World 

War II veterans who are buried 

in Indiana County cemeteries, 

according to the Indiana 

County Veterans Affairs Office, 

as of Sept. 10, 2012. They are 

listed in order of when they 

were buried. 


THIS PHOTO shows a Veterans Day gathering at the old Indiana County Courthouse in Indiana in the early 1940s, according to 

county historian John Busovicki, who provided this postcard. 

George Paul Buchovich, 

William Vincent Lopacinski, 

Peter Velesky, Francis S. 

Plotzer, Edward Casmer 

Boczar, Arthur R. Conatti, 

Zygment Piekarski, Albert S. 

Rinaldi, Thomas J. Danchick 

Jr., Stanley M. Voyten, Walter 

L. Pisch, George A. Larish, 

Frank P. Lucas, Leonard 

Delpra, Michael Gresock, Andrew 

J. Klein, Gazel P. Koren, 

George Zbur, Mario Zerbini, 

Stanley Maday, Sylvester 

Novak, Edo J. Leandri, Joseph 

Midock, Zigmond T. Petrosky, 

Stephen F. Hallow, William E. 

Cardamone, Floyd T. 

Klobuchir, Frank J. Broskin, 

John Biconik, Albert M. Rink, 

Anthony Antolik Jr., Charles 

W. Deptola, George Ciako, Albert 

W. Edwards Jr., Joseph M. 

Uzzo, Robert P. Lybarger, Anthony 

John Rellick, Anthony 

R. Chronoski, Albert J. Moreau, 

Edward F. Buchanan, Ross 

A. Sacco, Francis A. Faith, 

Thomas J. Coleman, Francisco 

B. Biamonte, John Felicko, 

John J. Baroskin, Robert L. 

Cavalier, Edward Pekala, Steve 

A. Csanyi, Glenn Hollman. 

Joseph Sharkey, Emil M. 

Oraskovich, John J. Stabile, 

Andrew Stahura Jr., Dominick 

Palazzone, John J. Stabile, 

Frank C. Rusieczky, William J. 

Patti, Bernard G. Plotzer, 

Michael Rellick, Joseph J. 

LaRoche, Henry P. Sadosky, 

John Andrews, Roland Capitosti, 

Paul P. Penzic, Robert F. 

Vogel, James J. Peightal, Walter 

P. Willis, James T. Sundry, 

Joseph Krull, Andy Guella, 

Levio Daldoss, Thomas H. 

McDonouch, Frank J. Recupero, 

Alex Klodosky. 

Elwood A. Banks, Frank G. 

Pekala, Thomas P. Beatty, 

Joseph C. Bytnar, Joseph M. 

Quinn, Walter F. Piesowicz, 

Philip D. McConnell, Bert 

Sheets. 

Joseph Zoffuto, James A. 

Vogel, Nick Kalanavich, Nick 

Modrey, George Bobak Jr., 

Mike Varan Jr., John Valyo, 

Peter A. Yanity, Edward I. 

Palchesko, John Simchak, 

Paul Eugene McShane, 

George Clarence Kemp, Paul 

A. Plowcha, John Mazik, Albert 

Joseph Mari, John Stanley 

Rapacuk, Joseph Mytrysak. 

Peter Herman Jr., Joseph 

Pavolko, Edward Thomas 

Elder, Adelco Anthony 

Pulsinelli, Carl E. Hoffman, 

Bernard Francis McMann, 

Samuel R. Miconi, Carl B. 

Pluchinsky, John Poper, 

Emidio N. Luther, Renaldo 

Lovisa, Joseph L. Krejocic, 

Walter Silveri, Edward Bellock, 

Joseph Thomas Campisano, 

Henry A. Onni, William F. Sutila, 

Russell Yanick, Pete 

Burtick, Isadore A. Plavi, 

George Clifton O’Hara, John 

James Cerovich Sr., Frank A. 

Zoffuto, John A. Simko, Albert 

Ugo Fortunato. 

John A. Newman Jr., John A. 

Woodburn, Joseph Cummings, 

Frank J. Aloi, Fred 

Keifer, Edward A. Parks, Stella 

Redenzio, James Alvin Taylor, 

Marco A. Biconik, Bruno Telk, 

Andy Joe Bodnar, Joseph R. 

Receskey, Anthony C. Novak, 

Adam J. Vitkoski, Steve Greb, 

Henry J. Balitski, Steve Holliday 

Jr., Howard E. Deabenderfer, 

John Levitz, Albert J. Pisarcik, 

Joseph E. Smatana, 

Patrick J. Hallow, George K. 

Burkett, Joseph F. Russella, 

John Torzok. 

Richard V. Vanderneck, 

Olimpio V. Stango, Thomas A. 

Bianco Sr., Louis Kostella, 

Joseph E. Strittmatter, Arthur 

Raymond Cupples, Patrick O. 

Corrigan, Henry A. Hoffman, 

Leonard George Leahey, Stanley 

P. Bernard, Leonard R. 

Wellen, Bruno Garonzi, 

Joseph E. Faggioni Sr., Carl J. 

Gardner, William A. Moshier, 

William A. Mattock, Wilbur J. 

Boucher, Joseph Edward Gresock, 

Edward D. Shaffer, 

Leonard A. Mayausky, Joseph 

A. Palilla, Harry H. Replogle, 

Joseph C. Micher, Jack Mock, 

John J. Harvanek. 

Samuel A. Nastase, James C. 

Hasinger, John A. Elias, Mike 

Zayachak, Frank T. Scerbo, 

Andrew Condrick, Stanley 

Flack, Mike Harvey, Albert De- 

Gastro, Michael Lucy, William 

J. Oakes, George James 

Uhron, Joseph Daskivich, 

Louis V. Tocci, Richard J. 

Kennedy, Albert J. Medora, 

Morris A. Mistretta, Joseph B. 

Socol, John R. Senick, Michael 

Zias, Anthony Violi, Joseph 

Yackuboskey, Frank L. 

Bathiewicz, Harold L. Buggy, 

Joseph Manfredi. 

George Miller, Joseph C. 

D’Amico, Anthony D. Oliverio, 

David J. Yurky, Albert G. Geletka, 

Carl O. Widdowson, 

Thomas G. Benamati, Paul J. 

Illig, James S. Plassard, Walter 

Renz, John Rellick, Andrew F. 

Surma, Leo R. McCarthy, 

Louis Pividori, Albert A. 

Nanni, Pete Mibroda, William 

J. Bernard, Anthony T. Mizerak, 

Peter Stella, Anthony J. 

Pagano Jr., Patsy E. Mandolene, 

Walter R. Cooper, Remo 

Guella, James E. Brockett, 

George Flinko. 

George M. Ruffner, Edward 

Carl Pluchinsky, Joseph J. 

Spinner, Steve A. Bodnar, 

William H. McCroskey, 

George Kalanavich, Mike 

Yacenick, Joseph Krivonick, 

Becy Bianco, Paul E. Williams, 

Michael G. Humenik, Steve 

Smihula, Steven J. Mudrich, 

Virginia S. Rapacuk, Alexander 

J. Horvath, Andrew 

Yosurack, Edward B. Pohley, 

James L. Davis, Charles Morganti, 

Virgil Glen Vaughn, 

William J. Jordan, Herman J. 

Chronosky, Edward J. Morris, 

Pete D. Gett, Louis A. Stabile, 

Stephen Bender, Theodore S. 

Elias, Mathilda J. Fabin, Peter 

A. Gualtieri, August John 

Pompelia, Martin G. Smith, 

Steve Ruben, Frank J. Zajec, 

Leno Ricci, Paul Hodak, 

Arnold L. Frech, Harold 

Alexander Wissinger, Donald 

Goheen Kime, Howard 

Franklin Porter, Richard Cloyd 

Stiffler, Charles E. Scott, Lewis 

McClelland Getty, Robert Carl 

McComb, Charles Frederick 

Coburn, James Schurr, Leo Arcurio, 

Ray E. LaVan, Harold N. 

Kiem, Harry E. McNaughton 

Jr., Neal O. Douglas. 

Curvin Miller Orr, John A. 

Craft, Richard E. Martin, Alfred 

Leonard Ball, Floyd E. 

Mesler, George Emerson Roof, 

Raymond W. Drew, William 

Antoniak, Dean Henry, John 

Schorth, Jacob D. Shaffer, 

Charles Edward Clark Jr., 

Chester Edward Howe, Emerson 

R. James, Bert Moore, 

William J. Pauch, Charles W. 

Winger, Robert O. Davis, Eugene 

N. Boyer, Clair E. Longenecker, 

Kenneth D. Jamison, 

Walter Vuckovich, Arthur 

Wendell McCurdy, Clair M. 

Hemphill, Raymond W. Smith. 

William E. Tanner, James B. 

Campbell, Elvie A. Lydick, 

Wilbur R. Rea, James Henry 

Hile, Paul D. Buterbaugh, 

John W. George, Charles H. 

Bartlebaugh, Louis Carlig, 

Robert C. Lucas, Alvin B. 

Brewer, James H. Hile, Harry 

John Fairbanks, Carl E. Keith, 

William Paul Elbel, Waldo L. 

Brown, Raymond M. Little, 

William Terloin, William 

Nicholson, Russell Eugene 

King, Robert Siehl Campbell, 

Frank G. Johnson, Richard A. 

Warner, Burgess K. Anderson, 

Peter T. Martini. 

William Harvey Hill, James 

Curtis Albright, Bruce M. Kettering, 

Charles M. Seger, John 

Beatty Lowry, Logan V. Henry, 

Thomas R. Bath, Harold J. 

Fairman, Robert Daniel Groft, 

Howard John Strickland, John 

L. Anderson, John Justus 

Daub, Joseph Rethi (Rady), 

James Alfred Shields, Herman 

B. Harris, Joseph Rombaugh, 

Harry Carney, John D. Shank, 

Samuel F. Marshall, Stanley 

Yuha, Theodore R. Barkley, 

Francis M. Vernin, Giles N. 

Stillwagon, Joseph Parchinsky, 

John Zagrodnichek. 

Frank J. Ring, William E. 

Pierce, Peter Terlion, Lewis 

Eddings, Ernest J. Swaby, Cecil 

Ward Dilts, Jay E. Bennett, 

William R. Houck, James I. 

Thompson, Martin H. Hurst, 

Victor Zugates, Stephen 

Pasternak, Ray B. Shields, 

Melvin D. Pounds, Theodore 

M. Coes, George M. 

Dobashinski, James K. 

Scheeren, Mervin J. Hick, 

Murray W. Boyer, Joseph R. Armanini, 

Jesse E. Frye, Kenneth 

Struckland, Dale C. Marlin, 

Paul A. Ray, Paul G. Winger. 

LeRoy H. Schnell, Harold C. 

George, Philip W. Ross, Robert 

D. Offutt, Franklin R. Anderson, 

Heber D. McGeary, 

Robert M. Rankin, Thomas B. 

Walker, Stanley A. Stiles, Harry 

F. Mock, Oliver L. Brown, 

Martha D. Kester, Ernest 

Doch, Richard L. James, Dale 

R. Barris, Halsey R. Walker, 

Kenneth J. Shankle, Stephen 

E. Harshyne, Paul Ondo, 

Arthur Roumm, Thomas Q. 

Hill Jr., Frank Whiteman, Clair 

M. Warden, Earl E. Buchanan, 

Andrew Wanchism. 

Jack Vincent Airgood, 

Charles J. Whitfield, Boyd W. 

McKnight, Charles Robert 

McAdoo Sr., Robert Norman 

Hazlett, Wendell J. Cook, 

Oscar Leslie Hazlett, Samuel 

R. Johnston, Ralph E. Markle, 

Lawrence Dewey Culliver, 

William B. Eddings, Ralph E. 

Markel, Theodore Spencer 

Creck, James Holford Miller, 

Ray Vernon Baker, John Cyrus 

Graft, Robert H. McCracken 

Jr., Robert Clair Sexton, Vincent 

T. Isenberg, Wendall S. 

Koozer, Dean H. Hemphill, 

Gilbert S. Parnell Jr., Rupert C. 

North, Elmer B. Cooper, Lewis 

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Sink, Dale Getty Jr., Emerson 

D. Coy, Kenneth F. Morgan, 

Robert J. Phillips, Andrew 

Szentmiklosi, Leo J. Fisher, 

John Stanley Reed, Clarence 

Moore, Charles J. McCully, 

Robert J. Baird, Robert W. 

Burggraf, Clarence Frederick 

Miller, Jack R. Cheskey, Basil 

W. Mogle, Donald LeRoy 

Myers, Ernest C. Foster. 

Donald L. Strotman, Arley 

W. Riddle, Samuel T. Spellman, 

Louis J. Staniscia, Harry 

C. Clayton, John Ralph Shultz, 

John L. Gillis, Grant Rowe, 

Joseph Eugene Jerto, Norman 

C. Coy, Paul M. Farren, James 

R. O’Keiff, Kenneth E. Griffin, 

Eugene Edward Spaid, John 

Gorman Smith, Henry C. 

Young, Francis J. Harper, 

Michael Biconik, William Edward 

Williams, Richard Calvin 

Smith, Robert Vincent Neese, 

John A. Evans, Donald E. 

Williams, James George Learn 

Jr., Robert B. Barclay. 

Frederick C. Roadarmel, 

Robert D. Ruddock, William A. 

VETERANS DAY was celebrated in Blairsville in 1953. 

M.D.S. WELDING & FABRICATING 

THANK YOU TO ALL THE VETERANS 

WHO FOUGHT TO DEFEND OUR NATION 

AND PROTECT OUR FREEDOMS! 

Ed Mumau, Manager 

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Albert O. Livingston, 

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Jack D. Springer, John C. Auld, 

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Maxwell R. Busch, James G. 

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Richard A. Nixon, Walter J. 

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Charles W. McCullough, Paul 

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Penrose, John Chroma Jr., 

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Lear, Richard Warren Palmer, 

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Alvin Lichtenfels, Edward C. 

Palmer, John T. Lichtenfels, 

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Busi, Antonio R. DeValerio, 

Joseph Patricko, Robert V. Bailey, 

Walter Ray Rager, William 

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Harrison E. Cain, Edgar H. 

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Edward Earl Berkhammer, 

Thomas O. Fox, Thomas H. 

Rager, Orville Stiles, Harry L. 

Skiles, Charles E. Kinsey, John 

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Nacigle, Gay Eugene Wayt, 

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Robert C. Schillinger, Paul 

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Ira C. Bracken, Mike 

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Howard E. Huber, Blair C. 

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John R. Ginter, Ralph William 

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Robert G. Slade, Edward R. 

Rethi, Donald Bruce Wimble, 

Richard M. Coalmer, James W. 

Garner, LeRoy R. Buchanan, 

Raymond C. George, Max C. 

Altman, Blaine S. McLaughlin, 

Jack H. Bush, William Glenn 

Dahlin, Paul M. Black, 

Lawrence T. Fetterman Jr., 

Ralph L. Smith, Earl Mitchell, 

Charles Tait Streams, Irwin 

Dean Bothell, James K. McElhoes. 

Robert W. Kensey, Andrew R. 

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Joe Babiak, Robert B. Gresswell, 

Francesco Arbia Ciommo, 

John Patrick Jr., Joseph J. 

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Charles J. Shubra Sr., Daniel 

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Mason, Daniel B. Cressley, 

Perry G. Mason, Blair R. 

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Henry L. Shilling, William 

Robert Vozer, Emmit W. Albright, 

Richard V. Johns, John 

Richard Miller, Raymond L. 

Misner, Ray W. Holby, Blaine 

W. Kline, Joseph Toth, Dwaine 

C. Crookshank, Floyd H. Boring, 

George E. Schwing, Raymond 

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Harry Lee Rickard, 

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Gromley, Harmon D. Gaston, 

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Hubert E. Lydic, Jack R. 

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Edward F. Bostic, Blair D. 

Trimble, Clair Albert Deyarmin, 

Stephen Klapak, Alvin 

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Lee Bouch, Elmer Allen 

Baum, James P. Deitman, 

Justin C. Wheeler, Harry J. 

Sowers, Harry W. McManus, 

James P. Bhe, James Eugene 

Moore, Benjamin E. Thomas, 

William C. Spence, William J. 

Allison, Samuel T. Wetzel, Forrest 

M. Miller, Alice F. Wetzel, 

Woodrow Wilson Walker, 

Woodrow Wilson Brown, John 

William Rowe. 

Joseph Blaine Kinter, Joseph 

Kyle Work, Elmer M. Shirley, 

Earl H. Pfeiffer, Norman Earl 

Bartlebaugh, James C. Mc- 

Creight, Herbert A. Faloon, 

Max Anthony Zahoransky, Leland 

R. Pfeiffer, James Kamerer 

Cribbs, David S. Taylor, 

Lester B. Adamson, Harry S. 

McAfoos, Robert M. Park, 

Henry H. George, Blaine 

Duane Bartlebaugh, Paul F. 

James, George E. Thompson, 

Arthur R. Keslar, Harry E. 

James, Monroe John Heberling, 

Matthew M. Viscuso, 

James C. Johnston, LeRoy Paul 

Neal, George C. Zerbe. 

Donald Edgar Longwill, 

Archie J. Boarts, John Morrow 

Gray, Owen Nelson Lawson, 

Zenas Walter Houser, John 

Dee Stiteler, Raymond W. 

Weaver, William C. Orr, 

Charles T. Kilgore, George 

Lawson Stiteler, Franklin Paul 

Martin, Charles F. Dare, Carl 

George Stiteler, Ralph M. 

Dinger, Edith Lucille Stiteler, 

Russell W. Smith, Fred O. 

Ritchie, Quinten W. Stiteler, 

James D. Lesser, Phil R. Jack, 

Wilfred Kerr, Michael Knapp 

Jr., Paul E. Stenman, Robert C. 

McCausland, Robert L. Stiteler. 

Edwin Twigg, Dale F. Elkin, 

Martin L. Daugherty, Clair M. 

Airgood, Thomas A. Jobe, 

Harry James Jobe, Albert M. 

Herzog, Dale F. Harris, Robert 

Bruce Homan, Joseph D. 

Pardee, Charles B. Hicks, Marlin 

D. Yount, Robert A. Hicks, 

Samuel A. Kennedy, Jerry Burt 

Little, Joe King McCullen, 

James Clifford Lukehart, Laird 

K. Beck, Willis R. Brandon, Edward 

W. Kime, Elvie D. Fleming, 

Michael James McCreary, 

Benjamin Delmont Gregg, 

Leslie E. Henry, James M. 

Keith. 

Carl Chambers, Benjamin B. 

Henry, Beam McKissick 

Gromley, Herman Armand 

Pontani, Guy Robert Mc- 

Combs, Jack Robert Thiel, 

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Edward Deitman, Robert G. 

Young, Ernest J. Wega, William 

Eugene Elliott Jr., Boyd Keith, 

Charles J. Lydic Jr., Elliot F. 

Laney, Calvin R. Trout, John 

M. Vinis, Harry V. Elliott, Walter 

I. Goss, Theodore E. Anderson, 

Lloyd V. Keith, George 

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Rogerzinsky (Rogers), Elmer 

Kenneth Weston, James B. 

McAnulty, Paul G. Sutton. 

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John Hodak Jr., Wallace 

Elsroy Robbins, James William 

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Clinton Johns, Warren Harding 

Fetterman, William Albert 

Pershing, Warren H. Laney, 

William Kibler, Sheridan H. 

Elliott, Howard J. Hertzog, 

Robert E. Hicks, Jay C. 

Williams, William D. Edison, 

George H. Tuskey, Kenneth K. 

Keith, Rhuel L. Rice, Edward T. 

Mitchell, Harry Blair Karlinsey, 

Mario Albert Farino, 

Rothard G. Cooper, William 

Henry Keith, Russell L. Hanwell. 

Harold Clyde Wilson, 

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Joseph F. Recek, Irvin William 

Lewis Jr., Frank L. Russell, 

Francis J. Kelly, John Elgin 

Watterson, Joseph Hudeck, 

John Luchkin, John Julock, 

John Berezansky, Sheldon E. 

Barbour, Wallace G. Shankle, 

Court Kitchen Jr., Glen A. 

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James Rice, Harry Edward 

Coble, John Clayton 

Berringer, Vallie R. Lowmaster, 

John R. Langham, Dean H. 

Rummel, Archie Boring, Ivan 

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Gromley, E. Max Langham, 

Robert Pittman, Jack Reed, 

Bernard Despoy, Vallie Johns, 

William Boring, Melvin 

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Willard G. Langham, Loderick 

Earl Walker, Gerald Leland 

Langham, James E. Smith. 

William L. Berringer, 

Theodore Keating, Devon J. 

Mitchell, Gerald B. Taylor, 

Don Bee Rummel, John M. 

Lowman, James Woodrow 

Rice, Murray Russell Peddicord, 

William Waldon Hadden, 

Chester Daugherty, Paul 

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James Earl Creek, Raymond 

M. Buterbaugh, Janck Numzio 

Olive, Bruce R. Pardee, Raymond 

Richard Brown, Norman 

Banks Buterbaugh, 

Clarence Lyle Vasbinder, 

Sherdie Marsh Pardee, Nick 

Steve Busija Jr., William 

Bernon Buterbaugh, Joseph A. 

Capitosti, Ray J. Ferrier, Elden 

Ardell Frantz. 

John Ord Kidd, Kenneth 

Byron Frantz, James Duane 

McMillen, Sylvester Franklin 

Wise, Sarah O. (Bellamy) 

Buterbaugh, William Harrison 

Miller Sr., William C. Ruddock, 

Welcome Rice Davis, Clavin J. 

Buterbaugh, William Kohan, 

Calvin Burnell Kerr, Murray A. 

Knupp, William F. Fetterman, 

Jay Frederick Mock, James 

Leonard Burkey, Wilbur J. 

Bennett, Forrest Edward Sensabaugh, 

Benjamin Franklin 

Smith, Frederick E. Lockard, 

Ralph Harding Singleton, Weldon 

Delmont Nichol, Thomas 

McGary, Paul Steele Getty, 

Arch Barkley, John R. Finfrock. 

William Blair Oberlin, Earl V. 

Oberlin, John J. Peles, Blair W. 

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Murray McKay Coleman, 

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Zerfoss, John Roosevelt Gary, 

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Kline, William George Powell, 

Dudley C. Rhea, Alfred M. 

Hebert, John W. Earhart Jr., 

Daniel Edgar Richardson, 

Arthur C. Parson, James Lewis 

Ewing, Blair E. Frye, Charles 

V.E. Mercer, Cyril V.G. Morgan, 

John W. McMasters, Vernon E. 

Shawley, Kenneth W. Rupert. 

Harland C. Stitt, Albert V. 

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Alfred Ercole. 

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Casimir R. Goodisky, Ralph 

Howard Kridler, Clair Sidmund 

Thomas, Delbert C. 

Wright Sr., James Edgar Mc- 

Cauley, Harry A. Hensel, Carl 

Ralph Hensel, William George 

Bee, Joseph S. Apjok, John H. 

McClellan Sr., Larry J. 

Roschelle, John B. Pearce, 

Arthur Woodruff, Arthur E. 

Nowry, Joseph S. Apjok, Raymond 

Glenn Bowman, James 

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Palmo, William A. Gallagher, 

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Nicholas Primavera, 

Willis Iseman, Jacob F. Bash, 

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Arthur Wayne Cunningham, 

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Eugene Butalini, John J. Rokicsak, 

Leonard E. Sciarrini, 

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Jr., Steve Cindric, William F. 

Kelly, Joseph A. Pistininzi, 

Kenneth M. Fisher, David E. 

Webb, Joseph Galinac. 

John Waitko, Charles Walter 

Wetovich, Frank L. Heglas, 

Michael Kusma, John A. Shedlock, 

John Charles Brinska, 

William F. Pistininzi, Francis J. 

Buchholz, Chester Gryczuk, 

Larry Paul Franco Sr., Francis 

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George Ukish, Donald B. 

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May Dwyer Dunmire, Herbert 

Ansley Swartz, Edward L. 

Strong, George Kenneth 

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Frantz, Frank Emigh, Lee Mc- 

Cullough, Thelma E. Geesey, 

Sutton W. Griffith, Darl Zare 

Plouse. 

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Edgar J. Rice, Budd Overman, 

Harold A. Myers, Claire 

Wilmer Trough, Elmer M. 

Roser, Gilbert Floyd Good, 

Charles Wayne Lambing, 

James A. Kephart, George Hovaner, 

Robert C. Scogsburg, 

Peter P. Wannett, John I. Mihalich 

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Medora, Nelson C. Brocius, 

George G. Jubenville, Ernest L. 

Lambing, Robert Wayne Little, 

Blair H. McCullough, Max R. 

Syster, Lewis L. Fessler, 

Ronald E. Detwiler, Pete 

Hudak, Michael Britsky, Stanley 

Yackuboskey. 

Adam S. Peles, Michael Andrew 

Fayak, Paul Harvilla, 

Joseph A. Mashanko, Michael 

S. MacKanos, Andrew W. 

Kuchta, Steve Yackuboskey, 

Martin J. Popson, John M. Zahoransky, 

Henry P. Engbert, 

Nick Yatsko, Joseph Gaul, 

George Kuchta, Washko Kaletta, 

Michael John Sabochick, 

Alex Richard Sagal, Andrew 

Zapatocky, Michael Paulina, 

Frank Kaletta, George Rusko, 

Nick Kostryk, Metro J. Misko, 

John J. Thachik, Joseph Harvath, 

Harry Rapach. 

Frank P. Wannett, William 

Balogh, Joe C. Busovicki, 

George Petras, John 

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Louis Sokoly, Alfred G. 

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William Keith Smathers, 

William P. Pierce, Jack Hurd, 

James E. Painter, Edward Pennington, 

Hayes W. Fleming, 

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Quinn A. Hess Jr., Robert 

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Victor J. Rypozyk, Michael 

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John S. Simon, Fred F. Martino, 

Henry James Haverilla, 

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Richard A. Krede, Joseph R. 

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Duane R. Neal, 

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Harry T. Clawson, Wendell 

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L. Cramer, Charles R. Mardis, 

Dean H. Wagner, Charles A. 

Bridge, William Clark Coppersmith, 

Michael Chakot, 

Leonard Kelly Sr., Earl 

Hysinger, Donald Hellerman, 

Richard Smith Sr., Daniel 

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Lewis Sr., Jack Stadmiller, 

Waldo McKee, Lewis Kelley, 

William Irwin, John George 

Rowley, Homer K. Lockard, 

Charles M. Seiring, Kenneth 

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William C. Brida, Thomas A. 

Wincek, John O. Stewart, John 

Paul Karpacs, Steve A. Tomko, 

George J. Vresilone, Joseph S. 

Krovontka, Pete Mehalick, 

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John L. Smatana, Joseph P. 

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Edward L. Pavlick, George G. 

Semegon, Gustie E. Rura, 

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Albert M. Pribesh, 

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Buterbaugh, George T. Supko, 

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Edward Smolos, Peter 

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Honor T hose Who Have Served 

Indiana County Veterans Discount Program 

Indiana County businesses are invited to participate in this worthwhile initiative 

while honoring military personnel who have sacrificed so much for our freedom. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participating Businesses 

700 Shop (700 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Altoona Curve (1000 Park Ave., Altoona) 

Anew Home Health Agency (1380 Rte 286 Hwy E., Indiana) 

Appleridge Stone (1094 Old William Penn Hwy, Blairsville) 

Arby’s Restaurant (1259 Oakland Ave., Indiana) 

Audiological & Speech Assoc. (270 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Balloons of Indiana (635 Church St., Indiana) 

Bence-Mihalcik Funeral Home (965 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Book Nook (711 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Citizen’s Radio LLC (5220 Redwood Dr., Indiana) 

Clymer Furniture (175 6th St., Clymer) 

Clymer Subway (308 Franklin St., Clymer) 

Cozumel (626 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Curly Bears Productions (443 First St., Ernest) 

Dingbats (Indiana Mall - 2334 Oakland Ave. Suite #7) 

Donut Connection (1024 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Evidence Based Chiropractic (655 Church St. Suite #1000, Indiana) 

Environmental Pest Management (310 Gompers Ave., Indiana) 

Executive House (241 Rustic Lodge Rd., Indiana) 

Flower Gallery (635 Church St., Indiana) 

Gatti Pharmacy (701 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Gardners Candies Inc. (Indiana Mall) 

H&H Auto Repair (1165 Wayne Ave., Indiana) 

H&R Block (795 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

H&R Block (Indiana Mall) 

Harry J. Bence Funeral Home (655 Franklin St., Clymer) 

Indiana Eye Care (678 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Intimately Yours (14 S. 7th St., Indiana) 

Jeff Hamilton Tree Service (Indiana) 

KAPLET, Inc./Cartridge World (934 Oakland Ave., Indiana) 

Keith Specialty Store (6791 Rte 119 Hwy N., Marion Center) 

Kitchen Collection (Indiana Mall) 

Lorelli’s Jewelry (Indiana Mall) 

Luxenburg’s Jewelers (717 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Luxenburg’s Jewelers (Indiana Mall) 

McNaughton Moving and Storage (140 Old Rte 119 Hwy. S., Indiana) 

Nelson Insurance LLC (1080 Franklin St./PO Box 223, Clymer) 

Pennsylvania Barbeque (2045 S. 6th St. Hwy 954, Indiana) 

Rose of Sharon Floral (480 Franklin St., Clymer) 

RW Stewart Electric, LLC (PO Box 162/21 Stewart Lane, Homer City) 

Ryan W. Cowburn OD (2121 Shelly Dr., Indiana) 

Ryan W. Cowburn OD (210 Sixth St., Clymer) 

Shoenfelt Plumbing & Heating Inc. (887 Old Rte. 119 Hwy N., Indiana) 

Spaghetti Benders Italian Restaurant (563 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

Spencer Gifts (Indiana Mall) 

St. Andrew’s Village (1155 Indian Springs Rd., Indiana) 

Stonybank Restaurant (20 Tenth St., Clymer) 

Tate’s Supermarket (120 Fourth St., Clymer) 

The Coney Island (642 Philadelphia St., Indiana) 

The Grapevine Restaurant & Lounge (1155 Wayne Ave.,/PO Box 66, Indiana) 

Todd’s Locksmith (5125 Newport Rd., Clarksburg) 

Tres Amigos (1540 Oakland Ave., Indiana) 

Valeri Lazor’s Temp & Notary Service (1495 Indian Springs Rd., Indiana) 

White’s Variety Store (1845 Philadelphia St., Indiana)

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