Today in Ohio history: Clarksburg Ohio boys in service during WWII:
March 25, 1943: Albert Willis (369th Harbor Craft Company) escapes major injury during fire training at Camp Hathaway, WA when his firehose is turned on suddenly slamming him into a nearby building. Cary Skinner (41st Infantry Division) is actively training at Fort Riley, Kansas in the Medic Corps. Harmon Jobe (542nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment) is serving in Australia as a Coxswain of an army landing craft. Herman Dinkler (3rd Armored Division, 548th Quartermaster Depot) returns to Clarksburg for a furlough spent with parents. Dinkler recently graduated from Officer Training School at Camp Lee, Virginia. Walter Whitten (95th Infantry Division, 377th Infantry Regiment, L Company) departs Clarksburg for Fort Sam Houston, Texas following a 10-day furlough spent with parents.
March 25, 1944: Melvin Whiting is discharged from the U.S. Army due to a knee injury.
March 25, 1945: Elwood Dean (82nd Airborne, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, F Company) receives a medical discharge from the U.S. Army at the General Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky and returns to Chillicothe. Dean received wounds in Normandy July 3, 1944 while serving with the famed 82nd Airborne. Marcus Ater writes home describing details of the severe naval fighting he has endured aboard the USS Denver CL-58 (pictured above). Ater also mentioned he witnessed the retaking of the island Corregidor.
March 25, 1943: Albert Willis (369th Harbor Craft Company) escapes major injury during fire training at Camp Hathaway, WA when his firehose is turned on suddenly slamming him into a nearby building. Cary Skinner (41st Infantry Division) is actively training at Fort Riley, Kansas in the Medic Corps. Harmon Jobe (542nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment) is serving in Australia as a Coxswain of an army landing craft. Herman Dinkler (3rd Armored Division, 548th Quartermaster Depot) returns to Clarksburg for a furlough spent with parents. Dinkler recently graduated from Officer Training School at Camp Lee, Virginia. Walter Whitten (95th Infantry Division, 377th Infantry Regiment, L Company) departs Clarksburg for Fort Sam Houston, Texas following a 10-day furlough spent with parents.
March 25, 1944: Melvin Whiting is discharged from the U.S. Army due to a knee injury.
March 25, 1945: Elwood Dean (82nd Airborne, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, F Company) receives a medical discharge from the U.S. Army at the General Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky and returns to Chillicothe. Dean received wounds in Normandy July 3, 1944 while serving with the famed 82nd Airborne. Marcus Ater writes home describing details of the severe naval fighting he has endured aboard the USS Denver CL-58 (pictured above). Ater also mentioned he witnessed the retaking of the island Corregidor.
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