The following are some of the World War II stories of veterans published in the Hendersonville Times-News from 2000 to about 2006. Links to the web site, www.blueridgenow.com, are at the beginning of each story. A few of the stories written on the men listed below are not archived on the newspaper’s web site.
The reader should please note the dates that the articles were published. Many, if not most, of these World War II veterans are now deceased.
The following articles represent men who were living in Henderson County or Western North Carolina at the time they entered the military during World War II.
If someone has another published story of a Henderson County veteran that is not listed below and wants the veteran included, please contact [email protected] Not all the stories written about the World War II veterans from Henderson County are archived on the newspaper’s web site.
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Ray Anderson – Army and Navy, Pacific Theater
Robert “Bob” Cheadle – Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
Debois Edmundson – Army, European Theater
Vernon Edney – Army, European Theater
Larry Feagin – Army Air Corps (Air Force), Pacific Theater
Harry Garren – Army, European Theater, POW
George Gash – Army, European Theater, segregation
Fracier Griffin – Army, European Theater
Norman Guice – Navy, Pacific Theater
Le Roy Hawkins – Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
George Edward Hudson – Army, European Theater
Dewey Hunnicutt – Navy, Pacific Theater
Foy Israel and George “Buck” Lyda – Army, European Theater
Jack C. Jones – Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
George Justice (Thomas Dillard) – Navy, Pacific Theater
Zeb Kilpatrick – Army (Airborne Division), Pacific Theater
Levi Brothers – Army, European Theater and Panama
Fred Logan – Army, Pacific Theater, segregation
Carl McCarson – Army (Coast Artillery), Pacific Theater
Troy McCrary – Army Air Corps (Air Force), European Theater, POW
Joe McGraw – Navy, Pacific Theater
John Magness – Army, European Theater
W.A. “Bill” Moffitt (Frank Drake) – Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
John Nelson – Navy, Caribbean and Pacific Theater
Clint Nichols – Army, European Theater
Marvin “Jake” Owings – Army, European Theather
Craig Pace – Navy, North Africa and Pacific Theater
Harold “Bo” Phillips – Navy, North Pacific and Russia
Garland Rhodes – Army Air Corps (Air Force), Pacific Theater
Carroll Strider – Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
Tankersley brothers – Army, European Theater
Argie Taylor – Army, European Theater
Clarence Thompson – Army, North Africa and European Theater
J.D. Tweed – Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
Homer Whitted – Army, European Theater