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Board of Commissioners honors Pearl Harbor Day
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Henderson County commissioners on Monday honored the heroism of military personnel who paid the ultimate sacrifice at Pearl Harbor and the heroism of the soldiers, sailors, Marines and flyers who gave their lives after "the mighty threat to civilization" that began that day. Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans | military veterans | military affairs | World War II | Pearl Harbor
Green River Your Town
Tuxedo to celebrate Homer Levi's 100th birthday on Saturday
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James Homer Levi, who dropped out of school in the sixth grade to work at Mondamin Dairy milking cows and deliver ice and milk to Lake Summit residents, recalls that it was a 14-mile walk around the lake. Read Story »
Tags: Green River | World War II veterans | centenarians | Bobs Creek
Henderson County News
Local students advance to nationals in history contest
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Several students from two local homeschool programs advanced to the national level of competition in the 2021 National History Day Contest. Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans | World War I | National History Day | American history | World War II
Henderson County News
Remembering Henderson County's D-Day casualties
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Tags: World War II veterans | WWII in Henderson County | D-Day
Henderson County News
WWII veteran hits 1,600th workout at age 92
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Webb Van Dokkumburg, 92, a resident of Carolina Village and U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, has kept a day-by-day journal of his workouts for the past 13 years. Read Story »
Henderson County News
Laurel Park honors Lt. Hubert M. Smith, a late casualty of WWI
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In a letter to his mother from the battlefield of World War I, Hubert M. Smith showed a wisdom beyond his years. Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans | military veterans | military affairs | WWII in Henderson County
Henderson County News
Zeb Kilpatrick, a jumper in heroic POW liberation, dies at age 91
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Zeb Vance Kilpatrick Jr., who participated as a young U.S. Army paratrooper in the daring airborne raid that liberated a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines, died on Wednesday at the Elizabeth House at age 91. Read Story »
Henderson County News
Eighth Air Force veterans remember Pearl Harbor
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The Eighth Air Force Historical Society met a week after Veterans Day, the national observation inspired by the surrender on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 to end “the war to end all wars.” Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans
Henderson County News
JROTC captain stitches quilt for WWII hero
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Dudley Brown was cruising toward high school graduation in New Jersey in the winter of 1941. “There were three of us,” he said. “After Japan hit Pearl Harbor we said we’ve got to do something about this.” Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans | military veterans | Dudley Brown
Henderson County News
County to mark 70th anniversary of VE Day
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Henderson County will recognize the 70th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day throughout the week of May 3 through May 8. Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans
Henderson County News
County to salute Battle of the Bulge
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On Dec. 16, 1944, 250,000 German troops attacked approximately 80,000 American troops along a thinly held line in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium. The German offensive, the last ditch Nazi offensive of World War II intended to overwhelm Allied ground forces, became known as the Battle of the Bulge. Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans | military veterans | military affairs
Hendersonville Life
Family grateful WWII pilot was 'Not Forgotten'
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Capt. Ryan McCown, a U.S. Marine pilot shot down in the Pacific during World War II, lived on in the memory of his little brother, who lived on Page Farm Road at the foot of Tryon Mountain. Read Story »
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Henderson County Life
Honor Flight thanks Greatest Generation's veterans
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The old soldiers arrived before sunup. Now in their late 80s and early to mid-90s, they don't sleep in. Read Story »
Tags: HonorAir | Jeff Miller | World War II veterans | Veterans Day
Henderson County News
WWII brought strict price controls
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Unnecessary and costly regulations are a frequent and popular topic for discussion among small business owners in today's world. Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans | Frederick b. Jones | WWII in Henderson County
Henderson County News
WWII: The hunt for Clark Gable
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In the fall of 1943 the film Gone with the Wind was still immensely popular and the musical Oklahoma had opened on Broadway in the spring. Read Story »
Henderson County News
Oral history project to interview WWII veterans
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Researchers are seeking interviews with World War II veterans in Henderson County as part of a history project to collect and preserve the first-hand stories of veterans. Read Story »
Tags: World War II veterans | Mike Murdock
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