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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1995)
VETERAN’S TAB - Wednesday, Aug. 23,1995-Sect. 2, THIRTEEN Coquille-------- RICHARD “Dick” DAVIS US. ARMY ALBERT N. BACKMAN U.S. AIR FORCE Dec. 1942 - Dec. 1945 June 1942- Oct. 1945 Squad Leader, S/Sgt. Armored Infantry Co. Served in 3rd Army in France and Germany. Remembers the break out of the Battle of Bulge and the liberation of displaced people in the labor camps. ★ ★ ★ HARLEN HOY-U.S. NAVY 1944 -1946 Aircraft maintenance in the North Island, Sail Diego. The absolute frustration! I worked at Lockheed building airplanes and could have been deferred but thought I should enlist and defend my country and see some of the world. When they found out what I could do they stuck me on North Island out of San Diego doing the exact same job as Lockheed - at a fraction of the pay for the duration!!. •fc -A- -A- HELEN ABER U.S. WOMENS ARMY CORP. 5 Apr. 1944 -12 Oct. 1946 Army Nurse. Served all over Texas, El Paso, San Antonio, Waco, Fort Worth, and Selina, Kansas. Recall going down to the runway to welcome the military planes (carrying our prisoners of war and welcoming them home. In Selina I met my very best friend I ever had, my husband of 49 years. ★ ★★ Aerial Gunner, B-17's, 301st Bomb Group, 419 Squad. Served in Africa, Italy, Austria and Germany. Was in Italy when Mt. Vesuvius erupted, assaulted all night with lava rock. Sixty B-25's destroyed (more than Germans shot down). Flew 28 missions, shot down, reported missing in action. Captured by Germans and spent 13 months in Stalag 17-B as P.O. W. Was on a forced march headed toward France at end of war. Rescued by Pattons Army at Braunhau on the Inns River, Germany. kw M JEAN WILSON - U.S. ARMY Mar. 1945 - June 1946 Army Nurse Corps. NurSe in Army General Hospital, surgery, infection control, general patient care. Basic training at Madigan General Hospital at Fort Lewis. Stationed at Dibble General Hospital at Menlo Park, California. The terrible trauma and injury to such young men and how it affected their lives remains a vivid memory. ★ w ★ EDGAR “Ed” CAMPBELL U.S. NAVY RESERVE 22 Mar. 1943 - 26 Nov. 1945 PHILIP L. DAVIS ARMY AIR CORPS. - 8TH AIR FORCE Nov. 1942 - Nov. 1945 Radar Mechanic, ground crew. Served in England. Tried to catch a joy ride on a B-24, missed by a couple of minutes. The plane crashed. Serviced, Radar Radio, Sonar & Loran Electronic Equip. RT 1/C Radio Tech. 1/C. Served in Ireland, England, France, Italy, N. Africa, S. Pacific, Hawaii, Guam, Tinian, Saipan. Duty on destroyer U.S.S. Tillman DD641. Es corted 2 cruisers, 1 carrying Pres. Franklin Rosevelt to the Yalta Conf. Escorted 200 troop transports and supply ships to Europe bringing prisoners back. In the Pacific we stood by as 600 B-29's took off from Tinian, Guam, Saipan to bomb Japan. We rescued survivors from B-29's when departed from Japan and returned. Frankie Twite, Owner/Broker ..L... 396-4261 Qnluoiw K'Lynn Landmark, Owner/Sales ....396-6115 Jim Judd, Associate Broker ...........396-4002 Lynn Kindred, Sales Assoc. 396-3445 Debbie Pinkley, Sales Assoc, .^...396-5793 Kathy Barnett, Sales Assoc.:......... 396-6521 REX REALTY, INC. Mike Barnett, Sales Assoc 4,... 396-6521 (503) 396-5516 • 743 CENTRAL • COQUILLE, OR 97423 BACKMAN CONSTRUCTION, INC. QUALITY RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL DOUGLAS N. BACKMAN - TIMOTHY M. GEDEROS 43 EAST 5TH ST. - COQUILLE, OR 97423 LYNN KINDRED ‘ Sales Assoc. DEBBIE PINKLEV Sales Assoc. KATHY BARNETT Sales Assoc. MIKE BARNETT Sales Assoc, (503)396*4816 LICENSED & BONDED #14211
