Saturday, May 2, 2009

Today in Clarksburg Ohio WWII history

May 2, 1943: Raymond Tucker is training in Manhattan, Kansas attached to the Army Air Corps' 100th College training detachment. Tucker eventually serves with the 414th Fighter Group, 437th Fighter Squadron flying P-47 Thunderbolts. William Bochard's ship docks in the Asiatic Pacific Theater.

May 2, 1944: Ralph Ater arrives Clarksburg on a furlough to visit his mother.

May 2, 1945: Clark Stevens is based somewhere in France. Francis Ater's family learns from a letter that he is now based somewhere in the Philippines. Jack Ater writes to Glen and Nell Ater describing a close brush he had with a German bullet in the Ruhr Pocket of Germany and to tell them he is currently in East Germany.

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