Today in Ohio Military History: A spotlight on Clarksburg Ohio WWII veterans:
April 4, 1944: MSGT Kenneth Ater attends Clarksburg High School's sports banquet after returning from over 20 months of overseas service and combat. MSGT Ater entered service in 1941 at the age of 17. Served in Africa (Tunisia), Naples, Foggia, Rome-Arno. His unit, the 2622nd Ordnance Transportation Company, did maintenance work for the 1st Infantry Division. Ater experienced heavy German bombing in Africa and Italy. By chance, Ater was aboard the same ship home as S/SGT Charles Crabb, also from Clarksburg Ohio.
April 4, 1945: BM1C Earl Martin is forced to abandoned ship as LST 675 begins to sink. Martin escapes death by climbing aboard a Torpedo Boat as his ship begins to take on water during a typhoon off the coast of Okinawa. PFC Fred Rittenhouse's A Company of Sherman tanks (777th Tank Battalion) motors from Goissons toward Kassel, Germany to relieve the 80th Infantry Division. The tanks roll into Kassel approximately 1330 hours.
April 4, 1945: BM1C Earl Martin is forced to abandoned ship as LST 675 begins to sink. Martin escapes death by climbing aboard a Torpedo Boat as his ship begins to take on water during a typhoon off the coast of Okinawa. PFC Fred Rittenhouse's A Company of Sherman tanks (777th Tank Battalion) motors from Goissons toward Kassel, Germany to relieve the 80th Infantry Division. The tanks roll into Kassel approximately 1330 hours.
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