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- [S2532] paintedhills.org WWII Potter Vets, World War II Veterans from Shinglehouse areaMilitary Scrapbook of Robert Lockwood (1939 - 1999)Submitted By Jesse Lockwood - Transcribed by Frankie Stonemetz.
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World War II Veterans from the Shinglehouse, PA area
From the Military Scrapbook of Robert Lockwood (1939 - 1999)
Submitted By Jesse Lockwood - Transcribed by Frankie Stonemetz
(Veterans Index)
Austin, Russell R.
Blauvelt, Daryl
Buchanan, Welcome H.
Bump, William H., Jr.
Easton, Alfred E., Sr.
Fuller, Dean E.
Fuller, Ken
Fuller, Leon W.
Fuller, Victor P..
Gross, Robert
Knight, Lawrence W.
McDonald, James H.
Smith, Deforest, A. Jr.
Smith, Ray H.
Springer, Bea (Buchanan)
Springer, Glenn
Thielges, Dale L.
Weeks, Ellen (Thielges)
Weeks, Carl A.
Wisel, Edward F.
Wisel, Edwin F.
Wisel, Grant G.
S|Sgt. Daryl Blauvelt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Blauvelt of Shinglehouse, was inducted in the U.S.Army on May 15, 1941, being one of the first Pearl Harbor Draftees.
He received his basic training at ?? Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., and further training at Fort Bragg, NC, and Auburndale, Mass.
At Camp Phillips, KS, he was advanced to Staff Sgt. He went on maneuvers at Camp Forrest, Tenn., and is now seeing action overseas.
Pvt. Robert Gross,
son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gross of Shinglehouse, was inducted into the U.S.Army on April 6, 1943.
He received training at Camp Robinson, AR, later leaving for overseas duty in the Quartermasters Corps in the Fifth Army. He was in the North Africa and Italian Campaigns.
Deforest A. Smith Jr., and Ray H. Smith,
both First Lieutenants, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Deforest A. Smith, Sr.of Shinglehouse.
1st Lt. Deforest A. Smith, Jr. enlisted in the U.S.Army during the summer of 1942, and received his basic training at Fort Bragg, NC. He was transferred to Fort Sill, Okla., where he entered the Battery Officer course.
Lt. Smith who has been in Italy with the Fifth Army since March, 1944, was fortunate enough to visit a number of the places of Historical and artistic renown. . 1st Lt. Ray H. Smith was commissioned at Fort Sill, OK, on Sept. 16, 1943, and received a battlefield promotion to First Lieutenant on Oct. 17, 1944, in France.
Reconnaissance officer of an armored artillery battery of the Third Army, he was awarded the silver star in Franc
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