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Submitted By: S. Bagwell bagfunfarm@kfbol.com
October 24, 2002
S/Sgt. Arthur Lockwood who went overseas
Sept. 8 with an armored division, has been reported missing in action since
Nov. 19 in France. The message was received Friday from the War Department
by his wife, Mrs. Helen Lockwood.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lockwood,
reside in Pine Bush, N.Y. where he was born and reared. He has been
in service five years. He has a son whom he has never seen, and has two
brothers in service,
Albert Lockwood in Texas and Bill Lockwood
in the Philippines.
(note: S/Sgt. Arthur Lockwood served
in 10th Division
(called "Tiger" Division) 20th Battalion,
Company B.
He trained at Ft. Benning and Camp Gordon.
S/Sgt. Ovid Mitchell gave the names and address of some servicemen to members
of New Hope church so that church members could show support by mailing
them letters and words of encouragement. (This was the way that Helen
met Arthur Lockwood.)
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Pfc. Homer V. Thompson, former employee of the
moody grocery store. Belgium Jan. 10. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Claud Thompson of the Cairo road.
Pfc. Thompson has been overseas with an
airborne unit since August
1944. He was inducted April 13, 1943.
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Pfc. Brooks Callahan Lutrell, 19, son of Mrs.
and Mrs. H.M. Luttrell, Paducah Route 6, was killed in France on Sept.
30. In service 11 months, he had seen action in Italy, where he was
wounded and, in
France.
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Pfc. W.H. Herndon Killed In Action
Pfc. William H. Herndon, former employe
of the Hougland Foundry and Machine Shop, was killed in action in France,
Jan.2. He had just landed overseas Dec. 23.
The message concerning him came from the
War Dept. to his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Herndon, 1526 Broad street. Pfc. Herndon
was inducted in May, 1944 and took his training at Camp Robinson, Ark.,
and Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, William
H. Herndon, Jr.; his mother, Mrs. Gladys Herndon, Paducah, Route 6; a brother,
Alton Herndon; three sisters, Miss Violet Herndon, Mrs. Claude Moore and
Mrs. Stoman Stroud, all of Paducah.
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Pfc. Thomas Settle given Bronze Star
Pfc. Thomas W. Settle, 24, now with the
armed forces in Camp Boston, Rheims, France, has been awarded the Bronze
Star medal "for heroic achievement in Germany Feb. 25, 1945, in connection
with military
operations against the enemy."
Pfc. Settle, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom settle,
223 Cedar lLane, enlisted April 5, 1943 while in his senior year at Transylvania
University. He took training at Fort McClellan, ala., and went to
France in Sept.,
1944. he served with the ninth Army
in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
The citation accompanying the medal states:
"When an artillery barrage set a building
on fire and cries were heard coming from the inside, Pfc. Settle courageously
entered it to investigate whether personnel had been caught under the debris.
Finding an injured man, he quickly summoned
a comrade and carried him to safety. The courage and initative displayed
reflect great credit upon himself and the military service." Transylvania
awarded Pfc. Settle his A.B. degree a year after he entered the service.
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Sgt. Ovid Mitchell Missing In Action
S/Sgt. Ovid Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs.
E.E. Mitchell of New Hope, has been missing in action in Germany since
Nov. 28, according to a telegram received from the War Department by his
wife, Mrs. Pauline Mitchell. Goodman Drive, In McCracken county.
S/Sgt. Mitchell was a call boy at the Illinois
Central shops here before induction into the Army Infantry Oct. 26, 1942.
He was a candidate for the ministry. He has two brothers in service.
James Mitchell, S. 2/c, is serving in the Navy, LSC, Fort Emory Detachment
Trainee Flotilla, San Diego,
Calif.; and Pft. Leo Mitchell, who is at
Seymour Johnson Field, N.C.
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First Gold Star to Be Placed On Hank Memorial
Service Flag
In memory of S/Sgt. Ovid Mitchell, who was
killed in Germany a few days ago, a gold star will be placed in the Margaret
Hank Memorial Cumberland Presbyterian church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
this
will be the first gold star to go on the
flag.
S/Sgt. Mitchell took his basic training
at Fort Benning and Camp Gordon, Ga. He entered the service October
26, 1942, went overseas Sept. 8, 1944. Before entering the service
he was an employee of the
E.C.R.R. Co. His wife, Mrs. Pauline Mitchell,
and little son reside on the Goodman road.
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Former Paducahan Is Killed In Action On Western
Front
Sgt. Val Murrie Harris, 23, formerly of
Paducah, was killed in action in Germany December 9, his aunt, Mrs. Faitha
Daily, 1919 Harrison street, has been informed.
Sgt. Harris was a son of Mr. and Mrs. M.E.
Harris, Cleveland, O. He lived in Cleveland 12 years before entering the
Army in 1942. Sgt. Harris had been overseas about a year.
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Killed In Action
Pvt. Douglas O. May, who was killed in action
in France December 2, 1944. He was the husband of Mrs. Dot May, 1201
Palm street.
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Pvt. Thomas C. Warren, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A.F. Warren, Hinkleville road was killed January 17 in action in Belgium,
according to a War Department message to his wife.
Pvt. Warren, who entered the Army in June,
1944, had been overseas about a month. He sailed from New York about
the middle of December. He was a rifleman in an infantry unit.
He came home on a brief furlough last December,
at the conclusion of his training.
Prior to entering the Army, Pvt. Warren
was employed for two years at the munitions plant at Charleston, Ind.,
as a chief operator. Before going to the war plant he was employed
by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.
He attended school at Lone Oak. Besides
his parents, Pvt. Warren is survived by his widow, Dorothy Maxine Warren;
two children, Nancy, 8, and Tommy, 4; three brothers, Lt. James Arthur
Warren, chaplain in the Army, south Pacific; Pfc. Billy Warren, Marine
corps, Sand Diego, Calif., and Pvt. Charles E. Warren, gunner in the Army
Air forces, Laredo, Texas, and a sister, Miss Caroline Warren Paducah.
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Pvt. Billy Cooper, 19, eldest of a family
of seven children, was killed in action Dec. 20 in Belgium, according to
a telegram from the War Department to his wife, Mrs. Imogene Cooper, Barlow
Route 1. Pvt. Cooper was inducted into the Army in February 1944.
He took his training at Camp Wolters, Tex.; was sent to England in August
and thence to the western front.
He was educated at Bandana High School.
Surviving him are his wife, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cooper, two sisters,
Misses Milder and Annie Cooper; four brothers, Bob, Charles, Joe and Dan
Cooper, and three grandparents. Mrs. Tom Hall, and Mr. and Mrs. John
Cooper.
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Wickliffe, KY., May 9-(Special)- Pfc. Gordon
B. Pittman, jr., 21, was killed in action April 13 on Negros Island in
the Philippines. The message was received by his father. Gordon
B. Pittman.
Pfc. Pitmman went to New Guinea in March,
1944. He was awarded the purple Heart medal for wounds suffered in
the invasion of Luzon. He entered the Army Sept. 22, 1943.
Besides his father he is survived by two
brothers , M/Sgt., George Pittman, Fort Knox, and J.W. Pittman, Wickliffe;
two sisters, Mrs. William E. Walters, Henderson and miss Magdalene Pittman,
Murray state college.
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Paducahan Lost When Jap Prison Ship sunk By
sub
Cpl.. Robert Elmo Mitchell, who was captured
when Corregidor fell to the Japs April 7, 1942, was one of the 1,741 prisoners
lost when a Japanese prison ship was sunk by submarine Oct. 24, 1944.
Five
prisoners escaped and four were re-captured.
His mother, Mrs. Gracie Mitchell, 416 North Sixteenth, received two postcards
from in December, 1944, but they were not dated.
Though he was not officially declared dead,
the information of his death has been secured from files in Washington,
D.C., his mother said.
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Pfc. Charles H. Holt, a former resident of Kevil
Route 3, was killed in action in France Aug. 10, according to a telegram
received by his wife, Mrs. Anna Mae Holt, and parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James R. Holt, residents of 112 South third street, He went overseas in
June.
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These Paducah-Mccracken Soldiers Lost Their
Lives In Troop Train Accident
Russell J. Alquist
Charles boswell
William Ralph Cathey
Charles T. Clapp
James Edward Clark
Raymond Louis Yopp
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Pfc. Henry Jordan
After receiving a telegram from the War
Department May 27, 1944 that her son was "reported missing in action,"
a Paducah mother heard no more until Tuesday, June 19, when she was informed
in another telegram from the War Department that her son "died July 1942
in the Philippine Island.s" The telegram also stated: "Unavoidable
circumstances made necessary the unusual lapse of time in reporting your
son's death" The fateful message came to Mrs. Trentie Jordan, about her
son Pfc. Henry E. Jordan whose last letter to her was written Nov. 11,
1941. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Aug. 8, 1939, three months after graduating
at Tilghman High School. He had been carrying newspapers on a route and
"decided he wanted to see the world."
He is survived by his mother and grandmother,
Mrs. Ida Shelby, a sister, Mrs. Margie Burnes,all of Paducah, another sister,
Mrs. Ruth Youngblood of Nashville, Tenn: one brother Kenneth Jordan of
Santa
Ana, Calif.
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Pvt. J.E. Roberts Killed In Action On Western
Front
Pvt. James E. Roberts, 32, son of Mrs. and
Mrs. T.H. Roberts of the Hinkleville road, was killed in action Nov. 16
in France.
The message came from the War Department
Thursday, to his wife, Mrs. Eva Robert's. He was with Patton's Third
Army in France. Prior to induction March 17, 1944, Pvt. Roberts had been
an employee
of the Illinois Central Railroad shops here
since he was 16 years old. He went overseas in August.
Besides his wife and parents, he is survived
by a brother, Cpl. Bill Roberts, who has been a prisoner of the Germans
in Vienna, Austria, since Jan. 7, 1944; three sons, James, Don and Jack
Roberts; three
sisters, Mrs. Paul Bynum, Mrs. Raymond Vasseur,
Evansville, Ind., and Mrs. Barbara Jean Brazzel; two grandparents, J.W.
Bryan, Colesburt, Ky., and George E. Roberts, Louisville.
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Killed In Action
St. Leslie E. Koontz. former employee
of the International Shoe Co., was killed in action in France,
Jan. 11. The message came to his wife Mrs.
Lena Dickey Koontz, 3001 Clark, to whom he was married
Aug. 5, 1944. He went overseas two
months later.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a brother,
Pvt. William Koontz who is with the U.S. Marines in the South Pacific theater
of operations, and his stepmother.
Sgt. Koontz enlisted Dec. 13, 1937 and took
his military training at Fort Knox, Pine Camp, N.Y., Camp Chaffee, Ark.
and Camp Campbell.
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Killed In Crash Lt. Doran
Lt. William H. Doran, 21, a graduate of
Paducah Junior college in 1942, was killed in an airplane crash Dec. 23
in Italy. He was a navigator in the Army air force and had been overseas
two months.
Lt. Doran entered the service in December
1942. He was a graduate of Tilghman high school and a member of Aldersgate
Methodist church.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary
Doran, Lynn Grove Route 1; a brother, Earl Doran, and two sisters, Mrs.
Mamie Watkins, 801 1/2 South third and Mrs. George Burton, 100 South Third.
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The first bombs that ever fell upon Japan
in 2,600 years of its history were dropped in the famed Jimmy Dollittle
raid four months and 11 days after Pearl Harbor.
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Paducahan's Husband Killed In France
S/Sgt. Arthur Lockwood, who was reported
missing in action since Nov. 19 in France, has since been reported killed
in action on that date, which was his twenty-fifth birthday.
S/ Sgt.. Lockwood was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. B.A. Lockwood of Pine bush, N.Y. His wife, who he married Jan. 22,
1944, was Miss Helen Gross, Paducah Route 6.
He enlisted for service Dec. 7, 1939, and
served in the Navy for 18 months. In 1941 he was transferred to the
Army. After six months overseas service he returned to the U.S. and
served as an instructor
until Sept. 8, 1944 when he was again sent
overseas.
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Son of Former Pastor Is Killed; Twin Is Injured
Pfc. John Theodore Groerich, 20, son of
Rev. and Mrs. G. Groerich, former Paducahans, was killed in action with
the U.S. armed forces on Nov. 16 in the Aachen sector of the western front.
His twin brother, Pfc. James Gerhard Groerich, was seriously wounded in
the same engagement, and is now in a hospital in England. Two days before,
another son, Pvt. Paul F. Groerich, 22, was seriously injured in a jeep
accident in France. Rev. Groerich was pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church
in Paducah for
11 years, leaving here in 1932 to go to
St. Louis. At present he is secretary of Lutheran Wartime Missions,
stationed at Oak Ridge, Tenn. All three of the Groerich boys were born
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