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Most local folks are familiar with stories of the heroes of the famed 740th Tank Battalion Daredevils, the most decorated tank battalion of World War II, which included several lo-cal boys: Meredith Robinson,

A. J. Vinson, Carl Vinson and others.

Carl’s grandson, Jonathan Ellingsworth, has grown up with a deep and sincere ap-preciation for these Veterans,

has attended several of the 740th annual reunions with his grandfather and visited with many of his fellow Daredevils, and become close friends with

one in particular, Mr. Harold Bradley of Texas. The follow-ing is Mr. Bradley’s personal account of those Daredevil days.

Everyone knows that war is hell, but a person cannot pos-sibly know how hellish war really is until he or she has been there. The men of the 740th Tank Battalion, most of us boys at the time, who fought the good fight in World War II, were there. We are qualified to speak – But, you know, most of them don’t. Speak that is. About war, until we get togeth-er, then how the words flow. We can’t seem to get enough of each other’s stories. At least that’s the way it is now when the tankers who are still alive

and kicking get together, which a lot of us do each year when the 740th tank Battalion Asso-ciation meets, usually around the Labor Day Holiday.

Of course, there are fewer and fewer every year, some-thing like it was during the war after each clash with the Ger-mans. Always a few who didn’t make it back. What kind of people were these young men of the 740th in World War II? Many will never know if they do not tell their stories where their families can remember the brave men that fought to preserve the freedom we enjoy today. This is my story!

James Thomas left Allen Public Schools at the age of 17 in 1949. He was sent to boot camp in Lousiana where the recruiters discovered he was not 18. He was asked to sign a waiver to enlist because of being under the legal age to join the Army and so, Mr. Thomas joked, saying that he had to change his date of birth to serve his country.”

Mr. Thomas served from 1949 to 1952 during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged as a corporal in the Army. Mr. Thomas petitioned to receive a Veteran’s Diploma from the Oklahoma State Department and asked to receive his diploma from Allen Public Schools and Superintendent Harman and the Allen Board of Education were honored to present him with this diploma during the Veterans’ Day Program at the school auditorium Monday, November 11, 2013.

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The Story of the Daredevils

Ellingsworth Helps Record WWII Memories

Jonathan Ellingsworth proudly shares Harold Bradley’s World War II experiences with our readers. The two have met at numer-ous Daredevil Reunions and have become very close.

Veterans were honored Monday at the Calvin School program. Pictured are, front, Gene Fent, Jim Keefer and Royce Montgomery; back, coy Edwards, Denny Wilbanks and Robert Craven.

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Monday I had the privilege of attending Veterans Day ceremonies at several area schools. Being around so many heroes is an experi-ence I will never forget.

I had attended several World War II reunions with Dad before his death and I am so thankful I had that opportunity. There are many heroes that I know personally and then there are many that I do not.

There was one reunion held this year that I would have loved to witness but have obtained a picture and story about . . .

The cup of brandy that no one wants to drink. Is America today, what she has become, worthy of men such as these?

On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, the surviving Doolittle Raiders gathered publicly for the last time. They once were among the most universally admired and revered men in the United States. There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942, when they carried out one of the most courageous and heart-stirring military operations in this nation’s history. The mere mention of their unit’s name, in those years, would bring tears to the eyes of grateful Ameri-cans. Now only four survive.

After Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, with the United States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn the war effort around.

Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was devised. Sixteen B-25s were modified so that they could take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried -- sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier.

The 16 five-men crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet, knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier. They would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a safe landing.

But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted on. They were told that because of this they would not have enough fuel to make it to safety.

And those men went anyway. They bombed Tokyo, and then flew as far as they could. Four planes

crash-landed, 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed. Another died of star-vation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to Russia.

But the Doolittle Raiders had sent a message from the United States to its enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no matter what it takes, we will win.

Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a motion picture based on the raid; “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”, star-ring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was presenting the story “with supreme pride.”

Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson, Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with the name of a Raider.

Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is trans-ported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn witness.

Also in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born.

There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving Raiders, they would open the bottle, drink from it, and toast their comrades who preceded them in death.

As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February, Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.

What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.

The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts . . . there was a passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on the surface, had nothing to do with the war, but that emblematizes the depth of his sense of duty and devotion: “When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home, he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for three years until her death in 2005.”

So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle’s co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue.

The events in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It has come full circle; Florida’s nearby Eglin Field was where the Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission.

Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their sacrifice? They don’t talk about that, at least not around other people.

The men decided that after this final public reunion to get together once more and open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of them.

This past Saturday, November 10th, three of the four surviving Raiders met again, this time at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, and filled the four remaining upturned goblets and raise them in a toast to those who are gone.

“May they rest in peace,” Lt. Col. Richard Cole, 98, said before he and fellow Raiders - Lt. Col. Edward Saylor, 93, and Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, 92 - sipped the 1896 cognac from their specially engraved silver goblets.

Hundreds who had been invited to the ceremony, including family

members of deceased Raiders, watched as the three each called out “here” as a historian read the names of all 80 of the original airmen.

The fourth surviving Raider, Lt. Col. Robert Hite, 93, couldn’t travel to Ohio because of health problems, but his son Wallace

Hite said his father, wearing a Raiders blazer and other tradi-tional garb from their reunions, had made his own salute to the fallen with a silver goblet of wine at his home in Nashville, Tennes-see, earlier in the week.

Hite is the last survivor of eight Raiders who were captured by

Japanese soldiers. A B-25 bomber flyover helped

cap an afternoon memorial tribute in which a wreath was placed at the Doolittle Raider monument outside the museum. Museum officials estimated some 10,000 continued Page 4

THE FOUR SURVIVORS OF THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS: LT. COL. RICHARD COLE, AGE 98; LT. COL. EDWARD SAYLOR, AGE 93; STAFF SGT. DAVID THATCHER, AGE 92; LT. COL. ROBERT HITE, AGE 93.

LT. COL. JAMES DOOLITTLE AND HIS CREW BEFORE THEIR ATTACK ON JAPAN.

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History tells us that in Sep-tember 1939 began World War II – The bloodiest, most terrify-ing war in all history. It was a war that before long would sear the Globe.

In 1941 I was still in high school at Elmore City, Oklaho-ma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I was only 17 years old, a farm boy, knowing our coun-try was al-ready close to joining the war. We had only committed t o s e n d -i n g w a r s u p p l i e s on loan to the Allied F o r c e s , m a i n l y Great Brit-ain, France and Rus-sia. With-i n d a y s , J a p a n ’ s allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States. December 7, the “date which will live in infamy,” brought us into World War II.

Many young men in our school started enlisting in the Army, Navy, Marines and Army Air Corp. I was fortunate to stay in school, and graduated in May of 1942. In July of that year I turned 18 and registered for the draft, not knowing how long I would have before I would be called to serve my country.

It was harvesting time on the farm. Broomcorn was the crop that had to be cut, it was a cash crop for my Father and Mother to help clothe us for winter. I joined the other farmers and started cutting for 15 cents per hour. Late in the harvest time, Bill Paul, a senior when I was a freshman, was working at G. F. Wacker’s Warehouse in Pauls Valley. Bill was married to one of my teachers, Carmoleta Vaughn Paul. My neighbor had a car and one Saturday night we decided to go into Pauls Valley to see a movie and I ran into Paul and he asked me if I would like to come to work at Wacker Warehouse in Pauls Valley. I told him that sure would beat cutting broomcorn. Paul told me that he would find out Monday morning if the

opening was still available and he would have his wife call me if I had the job.

Monday morning came around, Dad and my brother, Overton, went to the broom-corn field, and I stayed at home. Mother asked me if I was sick or was I going to the corn field, and I told her that I was expecting a call from Mrs. Paul to see if I had a job in

Pauls Valley. She told me that she didn’t think that she would ca l l me. I to ld mother if she didn’t I would o n l y l o s e $1.50. About 10 AM, the phone rang. It was Mrs. Paul, and she told me if I could get to Elmore City, which was about four

and half miles NW of Pauls Valley, I could ride with her into Pauls Valley that evening. So I put some things together and I walked to town, and I went to work for George F. Wackers Warehouse the next day. At that time I did not have a place to stay but a young man about the same age as I who worked at the Warehouse invited me to stay with his parents. I stayed there over a month until I went to stay with Roy and Baby Mul-lins. They had three boys and twin daughters but they made room for me. I had no idea how long I would be work-ing at Wacker’s, but I didn’t let that worry me, I wasn’t cutting any more broomcorn. In September while attending the Garvin County Free Fair, I met a couple, George Machtolff and Earleen Cobble. Earleen had a sister who was riding the swings and she saw me talking to Earleen and wanted to know who I was, and Earleen told her she thought I worked at Wacker’s Warehouse. A couple of days went by and I was on a break at a Drug Store, where I met Kathleen Cobble.

One Saturday night just be-fore Halloween, Kathleen and I went to the show and I walked her home for the first time. She lived about a half mile from the theater and I lived over a mile from the theater. I got lost the

first time I walked her home and I must have walked two miles before I got on the right street and found my way back to town, but before long I knew my way around because we started going steady.

Cars were hard to come by back then and most of the time we had to walk just about ev-erywhere we went, but one day Kathleen asked me if I would like to go to church with her and her mother and sister and I told her I would love to. After that Sunday we attended church every Sunday from that time until I got a call from Uncle Sam telling me I need you and what was a young man to do? Just when Kathleen and I were getting to know each other, I was inducted into the United States Army at Oklahoma City, on February 19, 1943.

There were a lot of young men that got out of the draft and they were declared 4-F, and there were those that used this as a way to get out of serving our country. Not me or my brothers, Overton and Billy Joe. Our dad might have gotten one of us and maybe two by using us as farm exemption, but he never would do that. Overton and I were in World War II and Billy Joe was in the Korean conflict.

This is the story of our tank battalion and the things that happened to it in the war against Germany. It is not the purpose here to lay down tactical prin-ciples for the guidance of those who might fight at a later date, but is a narrative of the things that happened to us and what we did about them.

A good many battalions were attached to Infantry Divi-sions and remained with them through most of the war. Our lot was considerably different. We were nomads, traveling from one hotspot to another, doing maintenance while on railroad trains, picking up and dropping tanks and all other kinds of vehicles on the fly. We were always in a terrible hurry.

Our training background dif-fered considerably from that of the standard tank battalion directives. We engaged in a special training project shortly after our activation, which was tied in with a similar British project. As we expected to work with the British, we got together with them and devel-oped a coordinated system of giving commands and directing fire, which later on proved very confusing to reinforcements joining the battalion. Although

the project was not used by us, the training was of great value in our combat operations in the

Ardennes, the Ruhr Pocket, and both of our penetrations

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people turned out for Veterans Day weekend events honoring the 1942 mission credited with rally-ing American morale and throw-ing the Japanese off balance.

Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning said America was at a low point, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other Axis successes, before “these 80 men who showed the nation that we were nowhere near defeat.” He noted that all volunteered for a mission with high risks throughout, from the launch of B-25 bombers from a carrier at sea, the attack on Tokyo, and lack of fuel to reach safe bases.

The Raiders have said they didn’t realize at the time that their mission would be considered an important event in turning the war’s tide. It inflicted little major damage physically, but changed Japanese strategy while firing up Americans.

“It was what you do ... over time, we’ve been told what effect our raid had on the war and the morale of the people,” Saylor said in an interview.

The Brussett, Montana, na-tive who now lives in Puyallup, Washington, said he was one of the lucky ones.

“There were a whole bunch of guys in World War II; a lot of people didn’t come back,” he said.

Thatcher, of Missoula, Mon-tana, said the raid just seemed like “one of many bombing missions” during the war. The most harrow-ing part for him was the crash landing of his plane, depicted in the movie “Thirty Seconds over Tokyo.”

Cole, of Comfort, Texas, was Doolittle’s co-pilot that day. Three crew members died as Raiders bailed out or crash-landed their planes in China, but most were helped to safety by Chinese villagers and soldiers.

Cole, Saylor and Thatcher were greeted Saturday by flag-waving well-wishers ranging from small children to fellow war veterans. Twelve-year-old Joseph John Castellano’s grandparents brought him from their Dayton home.

Evelyn (Mecca) Foster passed away on November 7, 2013 in Hold-enville, Oklahoma. She was born on June 29, 1927 in the community of Non, Oklahoma to Pete and Florence (Duke) Mecca.

She attended Non Public Schools. She worked at Seamprufe in Holdenville until her retirement after 27 years of service. She was married to G. L. “Georgie” Foster. The couple had three sons, Jerry, Larry and Clifford.

Evelyn was active in her church, the Pentecostal Holiness Church of Holdenville, and was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary group. She worked at the Queen Bee Restaurant in Holdenville prior to her employment at Seamprufe. She enjoyed quilting, sewing, gardening, cooking, canning but most of all fishing. There was not a chance she would miss to go fishing. Her family and friends enjoyed many deli-cious meals she prepared for them with love.

Evelyn is preceded in death by her parents, husband Georgie, and sons Jerry and Clifford.

Survivors include her son, Larry Foster of Holdenville; grandchil-dren and great-grandchildren, Mark Foster and wife Nita, Teresa Foster and children Matthew and Porter, Larry Foster Jr. and wife Samantha and daughter Harlea Michelle Foster, Kelly Foster, Brian Foster and wife Cara and children Tori and Alec, Michael Foster and wife Karen and daughter Kaity, and Dava Hines and husband Scott and daughter Clara; daughter-in-law Renee Foster of Holdenville; sister-in-law Delia Hawkins of Bakersville, California; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.

Funeral service was held 10:30 am on Monday, November 11th, at the Hudson-Phillips Chapel in Holdenville, Oklahoma. Rev. Rick Madron officiated. Pallbearers were Ryan Wilbanks, Shelby Burchette, Darrell Burchette, Joe Ellis, Joshua Caudill, and Michael Hamilton. Honorary bearer will be Don Kimrey and Jerry Greer. Interment fol-lowed at Non Cemetery in Non, Oklahoma.

Services were under the direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home in Holdenville, Oklahoma.

by Cleo Emerson LeVally Recently the Chickasaw Public

Library had a class where people could meet together and get infor-mation and help in writing their life’s story. I have done research on all the lives of my family and the lives of my children’s ances-tors and written some of their stories. The amount of material I have is astounding.

The story of my life is my story, but in some ways it is not my story at all because it becomes the story of all the lives that are intertwine in own lives and the lives of our relatives. The stories become real to us and begin to take on charac-teristics that we recognize in our

own lives.Historians seem to make a great

deal of the male progeny and how we descended from them. Families attach a great deal of importance to carrying on the family name but as I do research I find many times the name of the female ancestors are lost and as I think of them, the life they led and the contribution to the lives of these men whose names we are careful to record, I real-ize they are more important than the male members of the family, because mothers shape the lives

of children. Maybe that is how the words, Mother Earth came in to being. The birth process is through the female or mother and thus all life comes into ex-istence.

We go through life thinking that we are only average people and that no one would be interested in what we think or do, or even what we have been , but each of our actions of the past and present are what and who we are. They make up the threads of our life and what we are is in our mind and heart. That is the soul of our being.

We are such private human be-

ings that we neither do nor always want to reveal or express what we are thinking but what we are, we have made ourselves. We are what we will in the final analysis present to God. To God only, we will be revealed in all our being. In that vein, if only we had daily records of the lives of those who have gone before us, would some great revelations be known to us today.

Some of the stories that we tell do not reveal who we really are. There are some thoughts of our lives that can be revealed to no person. However, it is very important to reveal somethings

in order to leave a heritage for your children and their children and for those who come after. We need to make some contribution of our lives to the world. It may be literature, a beautiful quilt, a painting or a work of art or, a reflection on life. God gave each one of us a unique talent and it is up to us to find it and make a contribution to the world for the good of mankind.

I have spent many hours and visited many places researching the background of family mem-bers. Each time I work with fam-ily records, I wish that I had asked more questions of my parents and relatives. Would my own story change any?Service held for

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“This was Tokyo. The odds of their survival were one in a mil-lion,” the boy said. “I just felt like I owe them a few short hours of the thousands of hours I will be on Earth.”

Organizers said more than 600 people, including descendants of Chinese villagers who helped the Raiders and Pearl Harbor survivors, were invited to the final-toast ceremony.

The 80 silver goblets used in the ceremony are engraved twice, the second upside-down. During the ceremony, white-gloved cadets presented each of the three with their personal goblets and their longtime manager poured the cognac. The deceased’s glasses were turned upside-down.

—CC— As I wrote earlier, my Dad

was a World War II veteran. He would cut out and save stories that he enjoyed. Here is one of his favorites . . . and mine.

I was stationed on Leyte during World War II. Although the region was secure, sometimes the enemy tried to infiltrate our food-storage area. One such adversary, dressed in GI clothing, once worked himself into the noontime chow line. Our camp cook spotted him, reached under the serving table for his pistol and yelled for the MPs who were patrolling the area.

After it was all over, we asked the cook how he knew the man was an enemy soldier. “I figured it wasn’t one of you guys,” he said, “’cause he was coming back for seconds.”

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The Allen 4H and The Material Girls Quilting Club have teamed up to make the Woodland Hills Nurs-ing Home Christmas Party a success this year! We are inviting anyone that would like to join us!

There are donation boxes at The Allen Food Center, The Allen Public Library, Dave’s Diner, and Prairie Notions Fabric Shop. Items that are of need for the residents are: Body Wash, Lotion, Deodorant, After Shave, Brushes/Combs, Nail Sets, Nail Polish, Shampoo/Conditioner, Make up, Cards, No Slip Socks, Pencils, Paper Pads, Candy, Sugar Free Candies, Puzzles

A special big Thank You from the Allen 4H kids and parents to the Material Girls for teaching us to make the pillow cases for the Nursing home goodies to be delivered in! We had an awesome time with you!”

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The old run-down build-ing sits there in the center of town—empty. And it looks empty, abandoned and in poor repair. Not a hint that it once housed the busiest drug store downtown providing a center of gathering, a place to enjoy a banana split, or buy some cos-metics or have your prescrip-tion filled. It was a brightly lit place that was a centerpiece of Allen and a place to gather. Central Drug Store was a land-mark ran by a popular pharma-cist named Otho Butler. Otho was a civic leader whose wife was the church pianist down at the First Baptist Church. Otho was also a citizen soldier.

Commanding officer of Company G, of the 180th In-fantry Regiment, 45th Division (Thunderbird) U. S. Army, Captain Butler probably didn’t plan on actually going to war nor did the other Allen men of Company G. But they did. Called up to active duty before the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor,

the Company was sent to Texas for advanced combat training. Eventually they would all wind up on an Island called Sicily—the toe of Italy. A famous gen-eral named Patton was charged with clearing the island of its occupiers—the Germans—and that’s what he did. But it came with a cost—a horrible cost.

On July 25, 1943, on a hill-side near Palermo, Sicily, General Patton’s advance was slowed by some German ma-chine-gun-nests. Patton or-dered the guns taken out and the order went down the line and landed in the lap of one Captain named Butler and his Company G—a unit made up mostly of Allen area soldiers. They were pinned down and I imagine the Allen guys had already given moments such as this some thought—“How do I leave a secure place, stand up and charge a machine gun

emplacement that’s already shooting at me?”

Captain Butler was a leader. That’s why he was where he was and he made his plans, picked his men and they went over the top, and after a few minutes General Patton had been notified that the hill had been cleared off—but it had been a hard fight. Captain Otho Butler, Pharmacist and part time soldier now lay dead on the side of a now forgot-ten hillside in Sicily. For his heroism, Butler was awarded the Silver Star. It was well deserved.

As far as I know, Otho and his widow, Lola Dell Butler, had a daughter, Bonita. Lola Dell sold the store to Bill and Liberty Orick and they contin-ued to operate it for many years under the name “The Central Store.” Lola Dell continued to help out with her piano duties

and worked as a teller at The Farmer’s State Bank before she retired and passed away. And yes, he is the same Captain Otho Butler whose name is on the highway signs between Ada and Calvin. I’m glad his name is there as I don’t want the people of this area to ever forget him and the men of Al-len who marched off to war a long time ago.

The Allen band under the capable direction of Spencer Cody played several pieces at Monday’s Veteran’s Day salute to our veterans. Sometimes these programs are boring to kids but not this time. After Rio Jones led our Pledge of Allegiance and the band had finished its medley of music honoring the services, guest

speaker Will Maxwell shared with stunning clarity his ex-periences in Iraq. Will held the kids spellbound with his eye-witness accounts and his declarations of patriotism. A highlight was the presentation of a high school diploma by Supt. Harman and high school Principal Ward to Mr. Calvin Thomas. Thomas fought in Korea—entering service be-fore he could earn his diploma. Congratulation, Calvin, and thanks for your service to your country.

Thanks to my readers for writing. I enjoy hearing from you and enjoy reading the sto-ries many of you send. Have a good week and if you enjoy your freedom, thank a veteran. And be sure and go to church this Sunday.

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We have seen the pictures and heard the stories of the terrible destruction and loss of life from the typhoon that hit the Philippine Islands. It tears at my heart, seeing people and property ravaged by such storms of nature. It makes me ask, “How can God be a god of love and permit us to suffer so greatly? How can this be an expression of God’s love?

Could it be that God is try-ing to communicate a mes-sage to us? He has spoken to us through His word in the Bible, but have we listened and obeyed? No! All of us, like Eve and Adam have listened to the voice of disobedience. We are like the Child who fails to obey his parents when they tell him to not take drugs because they will enslave and destroy him. When the child disobeys his parents, he should not be shocked or blame his parents because he becomes an addict, steals to support his habit and/or loses his mind or ends up in jail.

Likewise, it is our disobe-dience to God that has sepa-rated us and our world from God’s care and protection. He warned us that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), but we have not listened. So,

how can we blame God when we suffer such tragedies and death? It is not God’s perfect will that we suffer such things, but since we chose to disobey Him, perhaps He is now try-ing to show us the terribleness of the things that can happen when we do not trust and obey Him.

He has also told us that there is a place where things much worse will happen to us. It is prepared for the Devil and his angels (Matthew 25:) and He is trying to keep us from going there, but if we choose to disobey Him and listen to the Devil, we will go to that place with the Devil whom we have followed in disobedience. Maybe God wants us to know that if we do not like suffering in such storms on earth, we really won’t like the suffering to which we will be exposed in hell. If God has gotten our attention by such storms, perhaps we need to change our ways and begin trusting and obeying Him. You don’t want to die while living in disobedience and unforgiven of your sins.

Pre-K student of the week from Mrs. Laxton’s class is Brailee Davis.

Brailee was born March 19, 2009 in Ada, Oklahoma. Her family is Mom, Dad and sister.

Her favorite book is “Sam the Cat.” Brailee’s favorite food is spaghetti and apples. Her pet is a cat named Kris.

Her friend is Breanna. Brailee likes to play and learn.

Someday she wants to drive to Chuck E Cheese and play. Brai-lee is excited when daddy comes home!

Pre-K student of the week from Mrs. Mills’ class is Olivia Fuller.

Olivia was born October 21, 2008 in Ada, Oklahoma. Her family is her brother, uncles, aunt, Dad, Grandpa and Grandma.

Her favorite book is “Tinker-bell’s Lost Treasurer.” Olivia’s favorite food is pizza. Her pet is a guinea pig.

Her friends are Anaya, Kyra and Joanie. Olivia likes to play with her friends..

Someday she wants to be Dr. Olivia. She is excited about start-ing at her new school!

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of the Siegfried Line. Our ability to hit anything we shot at, coupled with our previous extremely aggressive training, made a combination that ac-counted for the destruction of fantastic quantities of German equipment, the killing of well over 5,000 of the enemy, and the capture of over 62,000, with an extremely small loss of ourselves.

Never having trained in the so called conventional tank tactics, we contrived our own tactics as we went along. Our standard operating policy was that each tank platoon did what it thought was best at the time. It was instilled in everyone the idea that it was his job to out-smart the enemy. If we couldn’t hit him from the rear, or from all sides at the same time, we hit him so hard and so fast from the front that captured German reports often referred to the operation of one platoon as that of a battalion, and we were frequently credited with being a brigade. When Jerry knew we were going to attack and knew the direction from which we were approaching, we hit him before he thought we possibly could. The more confused and obscure the enemy situation was, the harder we attacked and the deeper were our pen-etrations, our belief being that if we didn’t know what was going on it was doubly certain that the enemy didn’t. Being surrounded meant only that we had more target area to fire at, and we were not hampered by indecision, or proximity of other troops.

Throughout the war we hauled all of our own ammuni-tion, fuel, and supplies, evacu-ated most of our wounded ,op-erated our own hospital which we leap-frogged forward, pro-cured our own clothing when it was available, and placed prac-tically no burden on Divisions we supported – except that of publishing citation orders for gallantry in action. This fiercely independent attitude was one of the great contrib-uting factors to our success in battle. We thought that there was no situation that we could not meet. We felt that no enemy could stand up to us and live. Very few did.

The 740th Tank Battalion (M) was born at Fort Knox, Kentucky on the 1st of March 1943. Its parents were the 7th Armored Division and 9th Armored Group, and its Godfather was General Scott. The Officers and non-commis-sioned officers who formed the cadre of this outfit arrived at Fort Knox on the 27th of February 1943 from Camp Polk, Louisiana. Its battalion commander, Major Harry C Anderson of the 9th Armored Group, Camp Campbell, Ken-tucky. The battalion was quar-tered in the wooden buildings located between 1st and 2nd Avenues and between 21st and 24thStreets, Fort Knox. While the cadre was setting up housekeeping, cleaning up the old dilapidated buildings and policing up the cigarette butts, other things were happening.

At the same time that we were being processed at Fort Sill, a group of young men from Texas were going through the same thing at Camp Wolt-ers, Texas. When this group of men from Oklahoma and Texas were being processed, the Transportation officers at

“don’t forget to come back” as we left for our homes.

Kathleen and I kept in touch with each other with our letters from the time I left in Febru-ary until I came home on a furlough. That was the longest train ride I ever took while I was in the Army, it seems like the train stopped at every cow track coming from Fort Knox to Oklahoma, but I finally made it and even though the 14-day furlough was short, I bought an engagement ring and asked Kathleen to marry me and she said yes and that was the beginning of something special.

One Saturday mother and dad came to Pauls Valley to do some shopping and they knew that I had met Kathleen before I entered the Army but they had not met her. She was working at Willis Variety Store, so Dad decided that he would go and meet her and he walked in and Kathleen didn’t know him from anyone else. He struck up a conversation with her as if he had known her all his life, and while they were talking he just happened to mention that he was my dad and it took Kathleen by surprise, but she was really glad to meet him and from then on they were good buddies. While I was on leave and our folks learned that we were engaged, mother and dad had a family get-together on the farm so all of the neigh-bors and relatives could get to know Kathleen, so we had one big feast before I had to return to Fort Knox.

After all of the men returned from their furloughs, the Bat-talion found out that furloughs for everyone had a catch. The catch was that, unknown to the members of the 740th Tank Battalion, they had been selected to participate in one of the Army’s most closely guarded secrets. This had been planned by the high command, that as soon as the unit training was concluded, the Battalion would be moved out to Area “X” and be confined there. We all knew that some kind of a secret project was being carried on out there. From then on the project was called a “Special Training Group.” We knew that other armored units had come to Fort Knox for this training but no one could find out. Like most anything, rumors and speculation was flying and that was only confusing, and those that knew would not tell.

The guessing came to an abrupt end for the members of our battalion, when on the 7th of September 1943 we moved lock, stock and barrel to Area “X”. There, in a “hush-hush” meeting, the battalion learned that our name had been changed to read “740th Tank Battalion (Medium) Special”. At this time all members of the battalion held up their right hand, took the oath of secrecy, signed a book, and then heard the details of the project. In-structors outlined the plans in mind and stressed the need for secrecy. Demonstrations of the use of this special equipment were attended, and technical classes were soon started.

No one was allowed to leave Area “X” for any reason for fear that somehow this closely-guarded secret might leak out. This ironclad security came as a shock to many because they had their wives in Louisville, or at least nearby. This meant

that they could not see them. A PX was set up where beer was doled out, and an open-air theater was built.

The interest and speculation in classes, everyone agreed that it held great promise and might revolutionize warfare wherever tanks could be used. We worked around the clock in training, and were anxious to try it out. The school at Fort Knox was technical, but a camp was being built in the Arizona Desert where the technical principles involved could be tried out in a practical manner. In September a place was selected, which was a val-ley about 10 miles wide and 30 miles long, entirely surrounded by high mountains. This place turned out to be Butler Valley, located about 20 miles east of Bouse, Arizona.

The camp was finally built and our battalion boarded the train on the 12th of October and left Fort Knox, KY on a train ride that took two days. We arrived at Bouse at about midnight and trucks from the camp were waiting at the rail-road station to transport us to our new home. For most of the men, this desert wasn’t one of God’s special places, but it was going to be where we must live and train in the secret project as long as our high command wanted it for us.

Lieutenant Colonel George Kenneth Rubel was given com-mand of the 740th special Tank Battalion. Colonel Rubel had commanded a tank battalion in the North Africa campaign and his battalion took a beating and when he came to the 740th, he told us about the loss and he promised that would never happen again, so he started us on a training program that put us at the top of all tank bat-talions that had taken the kind of training that we were going through. He adopted a motto that we would do everything first and do it better than any-one else.

While we were in the desert training site, we had an APO number for all our out going mail and all of it was censored and we were not allowed to let our families know what was going on. Even after we finally got a chance for a weekend pass we had to go in group of three to make sure that no one would speak to anyone about what was going on out in the desert. About half of each company would be allowed to go into Phoenix for a weekend and then the next week the rest of the company would have the weekend. This worked out real well and as far as I know, no one ever got out of line because if they did that would mean no more weekends off and that would also mean someone got into trouble.

Training was resumed about the 5th of November. The mo-rale of the men was very low and Col. Rubel wanted to start a new kind of training in hopes that he could build up the mo-rale of the troops. Col. Rubel knew the approximate training level the Battalion had reached and also most of its past his-tory. He knew why the state of unrest and low morale in the battalion existed. He told the General what he thought part of the trouble was and what he thought the cure would be. General agreed and the next day details were cut from over 300 men down to around 105

men. After talking to the offi-cers, Col. Rubel called a meet-ing of the battalion and told us what he thought the trouble was, how we could cure it, and that he had been ordered by General Pierce to produce the best Battalion in this special training group in record time. He had a couple of days to de-cide whether he wanted to take the battalion and had received a promise from the General that he would stay with it, and would not be relieved as soon as it got on its feet. This had happened at Camp Campbell where another battalion, which appeared to be going on the rocks, lost its battalion com-mander and he had been sent out on the same mission – to stand it on its feet. He wanted to stay with that battalion but they said “nothing doing” – he had to come back as Executive to the Group.

During the time that he com-manded the other battalion he had tried out several different ideas for training and had come upon one that not only held the interest of the men but had produced good results. He was determined to try it out on the 740th. It was not exactly conventional training and he knew he would have trouble answering questions if it failed. He outlined this system to the officers and NCOs of the 740th and it sounded to them like a good idea. Over that much of a hurdle safely, he said “Let’s go” – and every man in the battalion jumped into it. The Staff worked day and night to keep ahead of the training, and within a week heads were high and chests were thrown out. The Battalion had not only regained its pride, but it walked with the air of a vindicated man. Together, we reviewed the basic principles of driving, and firing, and learned how to live together. We spent about three days cleaning up vehicles and getting them in shape to run. The tanker became in-separable from his tank. He drove it everywhere he went. He drove it day and night, with and without lights, and over the roughest terrain.

After this special training, we passed the battalion crew test with an average score of 83.73 percent, the highest record in the entire Armored Force at that time.

During our stay in the des-ert the battalion had taken on a feeling of fierce pride in itself. We had hung up new records in target practice for the rest of the Armored Force to try to beat, but more impor-tant than that—we developed confidence in our selves. We proved to ourselves that we could do anything we made up our minds to do and could hit anything that we shot at and we had confidence in our abil-ity to meet any situation, the way we carried ourselves, not only in parades but when we walked down the street. After our first combat we found that our training in the desert had been along the right lines. We knew that no man could stand up to us and live.

As our time was drawing to a close and the talk was that our next move would be to Europe, but first of all we had been in the desert for six months. The most important thing about the desert train-

both camps were making plans to ship us all out of Oklahoma and Texas for a place that we would soon call home, and that was Fort Knox, KY. There we were met by a group of officers and non-commissioned officers who formed the cadre of this outfit and had arrived at Fort Knox earlier. We soon learned that we would be placed in the 740th Tank Battalion. We ar-rived on the 7th of March 1943. We wondered what the world was coming to.

On the 15th of March basic training got underway, and we soon learned the terrible penalties for unbuttoned shirts and un-shined shoes. We also learned to love the Fort Knox weather. However, those who thought the weather was bad at that time soon found that we had seen nothing yet, when, on the 3rd of May, we started driving instruction. Two com-panies at a time bivouacked in Area 19. During the period of this driving instruction weather reports read, “Cold, rain, with some snow.” The pyramidal tents that we lived in looked like mounds of mud. For the tanks we were learning to drive, driving instructions went something like this: Start the engine at 7:30 AM; warm the tank up; start driving at 8:00 AM; get stuck in the mud at 8:15 AM, spend the rest of the day pulling the tank out, spend most of the night washing the mud off. Repeat the process the next day. During this driv-ing period most men found out what we wanted to do, and all were placed on “Table of Organization” jobs.

On the 12th of May, 1943, the Battalion was relieved from the standard tank bat-talion and assigned to Special Troops, Armored Force, and was assigned to the 8th Tank Group. Here again we went into basic training where we made ourselves familiar with all the jobs in the battalion nomenclature and function-ing of weapons and the vari-ous echelons of maintenance, which was concluded on the 14th of June. Then the battalion entered upon its unit-training program. This training started with a 4-day period spent in the field where the basic elements of maneuvering were outlined. We had daily instructions in the field by companies. Small problems in minor tactics were finally worked out. On the 5th of July the battalion underwent simulated gas attack from the air. From the 12th of July to the 7th of August 1943 the battal-ion began to find out how hard it was to hit the “bulls-eye” with a government weapon. Tank crews fired the 75 mm gun, sub-caliber machine gun, as well as the 30 caliber co-axial machine gun. Everyone fired sub-machine guns and pistols. No one was surprised when nearly every man quali-fied with his weapon.

Although the battalion was sublimely unconscious of the fact, great things were cook-ing in Washington, and on the 7th of August “Manna from Heaven” was dropped on the battalion in the form of furloughs. Fifty percent of the Battalion could be gone at one time and the furlough period was to be completed with everyone back on the job by the 30th of August. There were handshaking and admoni-tions to “have a great time and

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ing, we were there on a secret special project where all our mail was censored in order that they could keep it a secret and we never were able to use this special project. What a waste of government money, but that is the way the Army was and we did not question the way they handled the Gov-ernment’s business. Today the way things are handled there is no secret to what is going on. Our newspapers, radios and television reporters are given information that they report everyday and our enemies can see what we have to fight with and they know just about where and when we will use it, even before our fighting men know where they are go-ing. For instance, the U.S. sent troops to a starving Nation to try and save that Nation from starvation. The TV cameras and reporters were already waiting for the troops to land and it ended up hurting the U.S. more than it helped. As a former newspaperman I under-stand that the Media wants to get their reports out there but I believe there must be some restraints in order to protect our Freedom.

Although we had never been issued special equipment, we felt that we would be able to use it. During the end of our stay at Camp Bouse we did use it. A General from the War De-partment paid us an unexpected visit. The other battalions that had trained with this special equipment had left camp or were in the process of leaving. Those that were left didn’t want to risk trying to put on a demonstration, so our Com-mander jumped at the chance. Well we got one day and a night to become familiar with the equipment. The following day we put on a show for the General that no one else would do and again the 740th proved that we could do anything we set out to do—and do it well.

Before we could close Camp Bouse, the Battalion received word that every man would be given a 14-day furlough. This was a time Kathleen and I had been looking forward to so we could make plans for our wedding. On a weekend pass into Phoenix, Arizona, which was about 125 miles from Camp Bouse, I called Kath-leen to give her the good news about my leave. It was around midnight in Pauls Valley and a cold night in Oklahoma, and it was like summertime in Arizona. Kathleen told me she just about froze talking to me but she soon warmed up when I told her I was getting a 14-day leave and for her to start plan-ning for our wedding. I could not tell her when I would get my leave, so she started the next day making plans. She had to change them three times before I could give her the date I would be home.

In March 1944 our dreams and plans came true. On March 29, 1944 we were married in the First Christian Church in Pauls Valley with Rev. Charles H. Nininger officiating. My sis-ter, Ileana Bradley Cagle stood up for Kathleen and Raymond Johnson stood up for me. We had a very short honeymoon as we traveled by bus to Chick-asha, OK. Not knowing where my next assignment would be, my leave came to an end much

too quick and I had to report back to Camp Bouse, leaving Kathleen not knowing when or where we would be together again. But our faith was strong enough to see us through.

After all the leaves were finished, our battalion would stay at Camp Bouse, police the area and salvage as much of the camp as possible and then off to Fort Knox, KY, where we would draw clothing and equipment in preparation for the coming excursion to Eu-rope. When we got the word that we would be making a stop at Fort Knox, I got word to Kathleen that we would be at Fort Knox and all the rest of the married men in the bat-talion did the same thing. As we closed our camp at Bouse, Arizona, we bade good-bye to our jackrabbits, rattlesnakes and all those desert cactus, if any were left standing or sur-vived our time there. When we learned to drive the medium tanks in the mud in Kentucky, to driving them to perfection in the dusty Arizona Desert, we were proud that we knew how to use a tank as our protector from the Germans.

We boarded the train on April 24, 1944 and headed for Fort Knox, KY. By this time our wives knew about when we would be in Fort Knox and they had their plans made to be at Louisville, KY a day or two after we arrived at Fort Knox. I made plans to be at the train depot to meet Kathleen and also some of the other married women that were coming in from Oklahoma with Kathleen, and I was there to let them know where they were to meet their husbands and where they would be staying. It was a good thing that Kathleen came in on the train when she did, because I didn’t have a red cent in my pocket to buy a bus ticket back to where we would be staying while we were at Fort Knox. I had rented a one-room place in a little town called West Point, KY located about 200 yards from the Ohio River. It wasn’t the best in the world, but that was all we could pay for, you see $78 wouldn’t go too far even back then. This little old lady had fixed this utility room with a bed in it, and that was what we called our home while we lived in West Point. It didn’t have a bathroom so we had to do what I had done when I grew up on the farm, a number 2 wash tub to bathe in and we had to use an outdoor toilet but that didn’t make any difference to us because we were together. No matter what we had, we were happy even if it wasn’t what we would have liked, we made the best of what we had.

When we left the desert we only expected to be in Fort Knox not more than two weeks, but shortly after we ar-rived at Fort Knox we were in-formed that our shipment date had been postponed and that instead of leaving within 10 days for Port, we would have a longer stay than anyone would have guessed. In the meantime we had to have some extra money to live on while we were living there, so Kathleen got a chance to go to work on base at Fort Knox. She was as-signed to work in the quarters where the nurses lived and help fix their breakfast and lunch each day. There was one nurse that had the rank of a colonel

and some of the other nurses told Kathleen that she was a tough person to satisfy in how she wanted her food cooked. Kathleen went to her and asked her how she would like her meals fixed. She would make them the way she wanted, and bless your heart, Kathleen did it the way she wanted and she made a friend with the Colonel until the day Kathleen had to leave to go back to Oklahoma. With Kathleen working on the base, that helped us out with our meals. We were able to ride a bus that ran between where we lived and the base free of charge and we would eat our breakfast and lunch on base, and then for our evening meal we would just have an ice cream Sunday; we loved to eat butterscotch Sundays and they were only 10 cents each.

After the Allies pushed Mus-solini, Hitler’s puppet, to sur-render, there were a lot of prisoners of war from Italy and a lot of them ended up at Fort Knox. At first they didn’t cause any trouble but the longer they stayed there, they started to believe that they could do what they wanted to and get by with it. One day they started to brag about how many tanks they knocked out while fighting in North Africa and how many men they killed and when they started doing that sort of things we had to bite our tongues to keep from starting another war.

We had troubles of our own. Although far from Utah Beach, three of our young men were killed and 19 wounded when contrary to all regulations, one man brought a dud from the firing range. While we were taking instructions on the fir-ing range we would take a truck and go out and mark our targets that we had fired on, and this was when a member of Company C picked up this 37MM high explosive pro-jectile and he carried it back across the rough road with several men, including me, on the same truck and it was a thousand wonders that it hadn’t exploded enroute back to the instruction site, but we made it safe. But that didn’t last very long when he started pecking it in the dirt and rocks where we were taking instructions and all of a sudden the darn thing exploded, killing Sgt. Richard Fomby Wimberly a close friend of mine from Pauls Valley. His wife was the former Lucille Coffman and one of the women that came to Fort Knox with Kathleen. The young man that had the dud had both legs and both arms blown off and his insides filled with small pieces of lead that was broken into pieces. He lived long enough to get to the hospital before he died, also another man died in that same accident. I was among the 19 that had to be transported to the hospital for treatment. I was sitting within arm length behind him. I had my mess kit buttoned to my Army Uniform and the ex-plosion blew it in all directions from me. And I was wounded on the thumb. The wounded was taken to the same hospital that Kathleen was working. By the time the wounded began to arrive at the hospital word had been received about the explosion at Company C, and Kathleen was wondering if I was among the wounded. She was on her way to the emer-

gency room when a Lieutenant stopped her. She told him that her husband might be one of the wounded and after a short time, the nurse that Kathleen was taking care of came by and told the Lieutenant to step aside and let Kathleen see if her husband was one of the wounded. Sure enough I was. I received a tetanus shot, which this Colonel Nurse gave it to me in between my ribs and boy did it hurt. She told me it would take effect quicker. They dressed my thumb and released me to go back to the company.

How ironic was that day at Fort Knox. It was the day that the Allies made the invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. As we soon learned, the reason that we stayed this long at Fort Knox was due to the planning for the invasion of Normandy and they needed all the avail-able shipping to make the land-ing, so we got to stay in Fort Knox a little longer. This was good news for all of the mar-ried men in the battalion and their wives, this gave us more time together. We all knew that the time was coming that we would be called on soon to take part in the fighting in Europe. It was July, 1944 when we re-ceived word the time had come when we had to start making plans for Kathleen and other Oklahoma wives to return to Oklahoma before we had to pull out and head for Port of Embarkation. J. D. Keen’s wife lived in Oklahoma City and they had an old car, so they invited Kathleen and two other women to make the trip back to Oklahoma. The nurses where Kathleen worked tried to get Kathleen to stay and continue to work for them, but Kathleen had not been away from home without me so she chose to go home and work and wait for the time that I would come home.

As the time came for us to leave Fort Knox, we were re-stricted to our quarters and the night before we left, some of the men slipped out to say good bye to their wives. As for my-self I chose to stay in my quar-ters and avoid any punishment by not obeying the orders. On the 19th of July we boarded the train for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. While we were getting settled on the train, our wives had gathered at the station to wave good bye.

We had some great times while at Fort Knox, the best one was planned for me, when Kathleen planned a birthday party for me and things didn’t work out the way she had planned. I didn’t make it be-cause I had to stand guard on a soldier that was absent without leave after he had been given a weekend pass. It all worked out in the long run, because he was credited with saving my tank and about 20 men during an ambush by the Germans—you see he was my radio operator and I had an extra 30-caliber machine gun mounted on top of our tank for him to use and it came in handy that day and we only lost one man and a tank.

Kathleen told the story that as they headed back to Okla-homa, the old car they were riding in had a lot of trouble when they were traveling up the mountain highway com-ing out of Kentucky. She said more than once the car would quit before they got to the top and Dorothy Keen would let

it roll back down the road and then they would try again. Finally they made it back to Oklahoma. Kathleen found work back in Pauls Valley and she lived with her mother and father and saved our money so if and when I returned home we would have a start as a civilian.

We boarded the USS Gen-eral Mitchell on the 24th of July and then on the 26th, 5,000 additional troops came aboard and we moved out. A few miles out of New York Harbor we joined a convoy of 15 troop ships and 16 fast tankers and one destroyer and eight destroyer escorts. Then we pushed out to sea on our way to England.

Over the next 16 months I will attempt to trace my foot-steps that I played in the War and what a war it was. By this time my brother Overton was already in the Armed Forces. He went into the paratroopers. He joined the 101st Airborne Division. So this left mother and dad short to work the farm.

On the morning of Aug. 4, 1944, we were running in the Irish Sea and if it hadn’t been for the thick fog, we would have been able to see Ireland on our right and Scotland on the left. As we came near a port in England, we dropped anchor in the river just before Liverpool on the night of Au-gust 5th.

Arrangements had been made for us when we docked at 11:00 AM the next day with plenty of trucks to take us to our camp in England. After we had loaded our trucks with equipment and the men, we were in a truck convoy headed for Glynder-wyn, Wales. We arrived at our new camp at Rosebush where we were attached to the 9th Armored Group. There wasn’t much training that we could do while we were at this camp, due to the hills, rocks and the nature of the terrain. So we got permission to move to Castle Martin, a British tank training center that was located right on the Sea. At this time we had a chance to visit several nearby towns. During this time I found out that my brother was also in England and we were able to get together for a day, and that was the last time we saw each other until after the war.

While we were training, ru-mors came down that we might never use our Special Project and that we might be converted back to a Standard Tank Battal-ion in the very near future. Well the rumors came true and we were converted back to what we were best in, that we hit what we were shooting at.

On October 29, 1944, our Battalion was loaded on LST’s, crossed the English Channel on 30th of October and boy was it a rough crossing. We arrived at Utah Beach but could not land because the Sea was running so high so we had to wait until the next morning, November 1.

Utah Beach liked a lot to be desired in the way of comfort, cleanliness and facilities. We left Utah Beach on the morning of Nov. 2 without any orders, and by the time we got near Paris, France we received our orders. We would be assigned to the First United States Army and indicating our destination as Aubel, Belgium. We trav-

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eled through several towns in Belgium on our way to the village of Neufchateau; we had a pretty good idea of the problems that confronted the wartime soldier in World War II.

Up to the time of our arrival in Belgium, our conception of war had been entirely theoreti-cal. We had expected to fight but it was a far away propo-sition. Now we were on the fringe of war and it was hard to tell whether our spirits were high or low. Our Battalion ar-rived at Aubel, Belgium on No-vember 6 and set up camp for the night in an apple orchard, near Neufchateau. Just as we were getting settled in a Ger-man V-1 flying bomb, trailing orange flames, roared a few hundred feet over our heads. Awe struck, we watched in horror as the motor cut out, and a nerve-wracking wait began for the pilotless craft to dive for the ground. Fortunately, the explosion came some minutes later, well past the encamp-ment. During a jittery night, we counted at least 50 more of the monsters as they roared overhead. The best guess was that the rockets were headed for Leige or Antwerp and that our bivouac was directly in the fly path. ‘Devilish things’ we never knew when one of them would go wrong, turn, and dive right into our midst. It was something that we never really got used to. And that was our welcome to the war in Europe.

We pulled up stakes from the miserable conditions of the countryside and moved to bil-lets in Neufchateau itself and in the neighboring village of Montroux. We were about half-way between Liege, Belgium and Maastrich, Holland—a mile or so east of the Meuse River and just north of the Ardennes. The Ardennes—a somewhat mountainous and heavy forested area that was shortly to become the site of the fiercest battle of the war and our baptism of fire.

Written orders came shortly, relieving our battalion from our general assignment of the European Theater of Opera-tions and assigning the 740th to Lt. Gen Omar Bradley’s 12th Army Group, specifically to Lt. Gen Courtney Hodges First U.S. Army. We were placed in Army reserve and our first combat was expected some-time after the first of the year. Not being involved in the fight-ing set George Rubel’s teeth on edge. Finally, on December 14, he decided to pay the 99th a visit to find out first hand what was going on. Enroute, he got side tracked and ended up back in camp, suddenly, things began to pop. Instruc-tions awaited the Commander to report to the First U.S. Army Headquarters at Spa, Belgium immediately, if not sooner.

Enemy patrols and activity in general were escalating. But First U.S. Army Intelligence was not overly concerned, just taking precautions. Could it be a spoiling attack? The Germans were certainly in no shape to launch a major offensive, least of all through the Ardennes. They had taken quite a beating during the fall Campaign. And the Allies were hoping for a winter slowdown, so that sup-plies could catch up.

The Fall Campaign had been costly to our troops as well. As

November turned into Decem-ber, the winter snow and sleet descended on the action at the front. The First and Ninth U.S. Armies, fighting side by side, had lost 57,000 killed or wounded and another 70,000 to battle fatigue and exposure to the wretched weather. Five hundred fifty tanks were lost in the First Army alone. Still, with the British, Canadian Armies, the U.S. First Army and the U.S. Ninth, all in all, the Allied High Command was feeling pretty good about the situation. All was quiet on the Western Front.

Then all hell broke loose! Although Hitler found him-self with astounding loses in both men and equipment and backed up to his own border on all sides, he still had some ten million troops in uniform. The draft was soon extended to 16 to 60-year-olds. In total secrecy, the German Fuhrer had amassed his powerful forces for the breakthrough. Two Panzer Armies of 24 divisions were poised and ready to strike out of the mist and fog of the Schnee Eifel, a heavily-forested and protected area adjoining the Ardennes, with additional army on each flank, to take up the slack. At 5:30 AM, December 16, 1944, a dark Saturday morn-ing broke bitterly cold in the Ardennes. A six-inch blanket of white snow covered the for-est floor. All up and down our 60-mile “Ghost Front,” from the quaint little community of Monschau on the German side of the Belgian border in the north to the antiquated Luxem-bourg town of Echternach in the south, the Ardennes came alive.

At first, whistles in the dis-tance alerted the American outpost that something unusual was happening. But suddenly, after the alert, pinpoints of fire flickered from afar, and the German artillery opened up and came whistling in at the main points of attack. In the distance, the sky lit up like the fourth of July from the explosions of the German big guns, and the breakthrough of our lines was in motion. My battalion was in reserve north of where the break came. We knew that our time had come, but we didn’t have any tanks to fight with. We had nine tanks that we were using to train with. We were ordered to deliver them to the 745th Tank Battalion; that left our battalion with 2,105 assault guns, 3-M5A1 light tanks, and with that kind of equipment we couldn’t fight our way out of the mud if we had too.

The breakthrough of the Ger-man Sixth SS Panzer Army Kampfgruppe Peiper, was cre-ated to spearhead the attack. Joachim Peiper was personally chosen by Hitler to lead the Sixth SS Panzer army’s main attack. We learned that Peiper had significant combat experi-ence in Russia and a reputation for both ruthlessness and hero-ism in battle.

Breaking out on the sec-ond day of the Blitz, Peiper overran one small town after another, by passing strong points and heading hell-bent for the Meuse River. His tanks and troops took no prisoners, shooting even civilians who got in the way. We were told as the column clawed its way toward Malmedy, Peiper’s troops ran

headlong into a passing convoy of American field artillery ob-servers at a little road junction at Baugnez. The atrocity that followed came to be known as the “Malmedy Massacre.”

After he shot-up the con-voy, he took over the vehicles that were not destroyed, then disarmed some 130 survivors and crowded them together in a nearby field. In short order, shots rang out and a number of Americans fell. No more than 46 were able to scramble to safety. The chilling news of the German rampage through the Ardennes began to echo through the rear echelons the next day.

We were still billeted in the homes and with the people of Neufchateau and Mortroux in the vicinity of the Meuse – and getting along famously! The Belgian citizens very much appreciated their newly won freedom and the safety pro-vided by the presence of our troops, and the GIs recognized the heartache and suffering our new found friends had been through and valued the warmth and acceptance of the citizenry.

But life for my Tank Bat-talion was about to change, drastically. On December 18, orders flashed through from the First U.S. Army Head-quarters which turned our citizen-soldiers’ world upside down. We were to field a rein-forced company immediately. We were ordered to move to the ordnance vehicle depot at Sprimont, Belgium, equip our-selves with whatever combat vehicles were available; and advance to Aywaille. There on the Ambleve River, just a few miles southwest of Spa, we were to take up defensive positions and slow the deadly German thrust. Company “C” of which I was a member, commanded by Capt. James D. Berry. As we prepared to move out and climbed into GI trucks, we couldn’t help but wonder at the turn of events. We left body-and-soul afraid. Where was the armor with which we had trained? Where were those prized Sherman Tanks that fit us like a glove that we knew like the back of our hand? The 75mm Cannons that could tear out the side of a building, hiding the enemy? The 30 caliber machine guns that would chop to splinters any place a sniper could secret himself? The 50s that could ravage all but the thickest Ger-man steel? This kind of equip-ment was nowhere to be found. We were tankers! This was no way to go into battle. Life and death against an enemy force so powerful that it was spreading panic up and down the front and literally crush-ing everything that stood tall enough to get in its way. How could we be expected to fight the enemy without tanks.

We arrived at the Ordnance depot to grab what armor we could find. In the meantime, Col. Rubel took off with his liaison officer for Aywaille on the Ambleve to report in, then scout out the area to be defended. He quickly learned that an armored task force was coming our way and was in fact no more than a dozen miles away and we still did not have any fighting machines.

The Ordnance Depot at Sp-rimont was sheer bedlam as

we worked desperately to make something to fight in from leftover tanks we found there. There were perhaps 25 tanks of different types in the depot. But only three were in any shape to fight. Fortunately these three were M4 Sherman’s Medium tanks in which we had trained. Unfortunately, even these were without essential equipment. What was left in the pile ranged from M5 and M24 light tanks to the old M7 and the open-topped M10 as-sault gun motor carriage and even an M36 tank destroyer with the high-velocity 90mm gun (which strangely enough, turned out to be a blessing in disguise). They all had parts destroyed or missing.

We worked throughout the night taking parts from one vehicle and putting it on an-other. It was demoralizing, backbreaking, heart wrench-ing work and for a while it looked like there was no light at the end of the tunnel. By the next morning we had put together anything that looked like a tank company and Capt. Berry shouted, “All right let’s move ‘em out!” and our un-tested young tankers headed for Remouchamps and thence the destiny in the Ambleve Valley.

Our ragtag column of tanks clattered up to the command post. We were briefed and ordered into the attack, and the ground steadied under our feet. We had been assigned to the 119th Infantry Regiment of the 30th Infantry Division on December 19 and they needed help now – before the infantry was completely overrun.

The Third Platoon (my pla-toon), Commanded by Lt. Charles B. Powers was to spearhead the attack, with the first and second platoons to follow. The Commander of the 119th was notified that our battalion was coming in to help. We were equipped with anything that looked like a tank company. As we rolled past the Regimental Command Post where the staff was grin-ning out loud but shouting encouragement, Capt. Berry was heard to say, “They’re bastard tanks, but we’re shoot-ing fools.”

A chilling rain-drenched fog and long lines of battle-scarred troops working their way wearily to the rear slowed our column of tanks to a crawl as we moved toward the front. All up and down the line we were told we were crazy to go up there. “It was a slaughter, a bloodbath, and the German tanks still come.” Even as we rolled forward another Ameri-can tank company was falling back, withdrawing from the fight. “We’re low on ammo and fuel. One tanker shouted.” “Its holy hell up there, guys,” called out another. “Good Luck.” The first tank we encountered was abandoned in the field. Mean-while my platoon, led by Lt. Powers led our platoon around the stalled tank.

When our column reached the front, the 119th began to filter into the forest abreast of our tanks. Dusk came early in the winter in the Ardennes, and the gloom and fog of late af-ternoon played tricks with our eyes. Just short of Stoumont Station, Powers and his loader were standing with their heads out of their turret hatches when

a German tank was spotted. Jack Ashby, Lt. Power’s gun-ner, fired a round that hit and ricocheted downward –a lucky strike considering the Panzer’s thick armor – and the German tank exploded and burst into flames.

Minutes later, Powers spot-ted another tank, again Ashby got off the first shot, this time the shot ricocheted up and spun away. Then Ashby’s gun jammed. Powers signed his No. 2 tank Command by Staff Sergeant Charlie W. Loopey to move up. Loopey and his crew were in an M36 tank destroyer with the big 90 MM gun. As the German tank was moving forward trying to get into position to shoot, Loopey told his gunner to fire, the first round hit in the gun shield that kept him from getting down on Loopey’s tank destroyer. They threw several more rounds and blew up the tank.

With all of the trouble that Powers’ crew had, they finally got everything cleared up and he resumed the lead, only to face a third Panzer Tank on the opposite side of the road. Ashby’s first shot miraculously blasted the muzzle brake of the German’s cannon; and he kept firing as the tank tried to back away, finally setting it on fire.

Our Tank Battalion was right smack dab in the middle of the war. Together with the 119th Infantry’s First Battalion, we continued the attack into the darkness and blunted the main thrust of Hitler’s First SS Pan-zer Division’s Kampfgruppe Peiper, gaining back over 1,000 yards of bitterly con-tested front given up earlier that day. We held the line that night at Stoumont Station, most of us sleeping as best we could in our tanks.

With our beat-up tanks we stopped the best Hitler had, and from our stand point we felt like we had prevented the Germans from retaking Bel-gium. We soon learned that our rag-tag tank company was no match for the firepower of the German tanks so we had to out smart them and when we did, we were able to knock out our share of the German Tanks. From our first battle in combat and after we won this one, we never backed away from a fight the rest of the War.

One of the first captured German Mark VI Tiger Royal Tank at Spa, Belgium. It was quite a monster of a fighting machine. This machine we knew we couldn’t knock out by firing straight on, so I used a lot of smoke screen shells and so we could out-flank the monster and then hit it from the side and rear. Life Magazine was on the spot taking pictures and reporting on the battle of the Bulge. One such picture appeared on the newsreel in the movie house back in the States. One of my cousins saw it and she thought it was me standing on the tank and she was so sure that it was me that she had them repeat it to make sure and sure enough it was someone else.

The battle for the town of Spa and Stoumont, Belgium, was one of the fiercest battles that we had encountered so far in the breakthrough in Belgium. On December 21st our attack had bogged down and we lost three tanks that day and the casualties were running high

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By Herman BrownAllen correspondent

The good news for the Allen Mustangs is that the Fox Foxes are in the rear-view mirror.

The bad news is the Laverne Tigers are up next.

Coach Kenny Deaton’s AHS football squad wrapped up the District B-2 campaign last Friday with a punishing 50-8 setback at Fox. With the loss, Allen slips into the fourth-place spot in the district playoff pairings. The reward is trip to Laverne to play the defending Class B state champions on their home field.

How good is Laverne? The Tigers bring a 24-game win streak into the first-round showdown. Coach Tim Allen’s seniors have a combined re-cord of 45-4 during their prep career at Laverne.

The Tigers were a perfect 14-0 in 2012. They returned in 2013 and posted 10 more wins to the growing streak. Here is a list of victims beaten this season by the Tigers:

09/06 - Shattuck, 44-1809/13 - Canton, 38-14 09/20 - Covington-Douglas,

54-609/27 - Ringwood, 62 – 010/04 - Medford, 54-610/11 - Waukomis, 60-1010/17 - Garber, 60-610/25 – Merritt, 46-011/01 – Seiling, 64-1411/08 - Pond Creek-Hunter,

40-6That is what is facing the Al-

len Mustangs this weekend in Laverne. It’s a classic ‘David vs. Goliath’ showdown on the football field. On the bright side, David scored an upset victory in the Bible story. Mus-tang fans will be praying for a similar outcome.

“Nobody gives us a chance,” said Coach Deaton. “For that reason, we do not have any pressure on us. We need to go play and do our best. If they beat us, we can live with that. But I told our kids that eventu-ally someone has got to beat them. How do we know it’s not this weekend? That is why you go play the game.”

Even with the difficult chal-lenge this week, Coach Deaton is all smiles.

“We’ll be one of only 16 teams in Class B still playing football,” he said. “I don’t want the kids to forget that. We earned the right to be in the playoffs. These (Allen) kids are being rewarded for what they have already ac-complished during the season. I could not be more proud of them. Let’s go play this game and see what happens.”

For those who are unable to make the trip to Laverne, the football game will be streamed live on the Internet from Wood-ward radio station K100.1 FM. See information at the end of the article to learn how you can listen live to the playoff game.

As for last week’s game, Coach Deaton was not pleased with the performance. Allen struggled in the ground attack in the 50-8 loss. The Mustangs ran the football 32 times and gained only 4 net yards. The only real production came in the passing game where Justin Deaton completed 11 (of 24) throws for 113 yards and one touchdown.

“We could not get anything going,” the Allen coach said. “That was very frustrating.”

Fox countered with 234 yards rushing and 3 scores on 40 carries. The Foxes added 180 yards in the aerial game with a near-perfect 15-of-18 showing for 180 yards and 3 touchdowns. The other FHS touchdown came in special-teams action on a kickoff return.

Fox exploded for a 22-0 lead with three touchdowns in the first quarter. The Foxes passed for a 30-yard score, ran in a 54-yard TD, and passed for a 35-yard scoring toss. They added conversion runs on two of the TDs to secure that 22-0 cushion.

Allen finally answered late in the first quarter. Colton Brown-ing caught a 35-yard touch-down pass from Justin Deaton. Dalton James followed with a successful conversion run to

make it 22-8. Fox blew open the game

with three more touchdowns in the second period. A 69-yard kick-off return opened the scoring spree. A 44-yard run-ning play garnered the second tally. The third TD came on an 18-yard pass play. The Foxes connected on 2 of 3 PAT kicks to help built the advantage to 42-8 at intermission.

After half-time, Fox added a safety and a touchdown to finish off the scoring. The Foxes recorded the 2-point safety when AHS running back Dalton James was tackled in end zone. The defensive play extended the lead to 44-8.

Fox put up one more TD when Taylor Townsend raced 15 yards for the score later in the third stanza. When the PAT kick failed, Fox settled for the 50-8 lead, which would be the final score.

Fox ended up with 18 first downs and 414 yards of of-fense. Meanwhile, the visitors were limited to season lows in first downs (6) and total of-fense with 117 yards.

Dalton James was the work-horse on offense with 25 car-ries for 35 yards. However, the rest of the rushing total lost 31 yards on 7 carries – which pulled the total down to only 4 yards of rushing.

Justin Deaton spread out his 11 completions to four differ-ent Mustangs. Dakota Nickell had 5 receptions for 52 yards. Colten Browning added 2 receptions for 45 yards and a touchdown. Thirkiel Wedlow followed with 1 reception for 17 yards. Dalton James round-ed out the list with 3 receptions for -1 yards.

Allen had two bright spots in special-teams play - both on kick-off returns. Gunner Holder had a return for 25 yards. Colten Browning added a return of 16 yards.

On defense, Cody Lively was the leading tackler with 10 stops. Just missing out on double digits were Gunner Holder and Dalton James with 9 tackles each. Colten Brown-ing was active in tackles with 8. Dakota Nickell was next on the team with 7.

Coach Deaton is hoping to put last week’s game behind the Mustangs.

“We need to forget about the Fox game,” he said. “It will be critical to come out this week and play our best football of the season. If we do anything less than that we could be in big trouble in a hurry.”

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Fox 50, Allen 8Allen - 8 - 0 - 0 - 0 - (8)Fox - 22 - 20 - 8 - 0 - (50)

Fox – Frank Davidson, 30 pass (pass failed) 6-0Fox – Taylor Townsend, 54 run (Seth Argo run) 14-0Fox – Seth Argo, 35 pass (Seth Argo run) 22-0Allen – Colton Browning, 35 pass from Justin Deaton (Dalton

James run) 22-8Fox - Trayvon Davidson, 69 kick-off return (Seth Argo kick)

29-8Fox – Frank Davidson, 44 run (kick failed) 35-8Fox – Kamricks Buycks, 18 pass (Taylor Townsend kick)

42-8Fox – safety, Dalton James tackled in end zone, 44-8Fox – Taylor Townsend, 15 run (kick failed) 50-8

---TEAM STATS

Situation Allen FoxFirst Downs 6 18Rushing Yards 4 234Passing; C-A-I 11-24-0 15-18-0 Passing Yards 113 180Total Offense 117 414 Fumbles - Lost 3-2 1-1 Penalties - Yards 3-25 11-85Time of Possession 19.34 28.26Punts – Average 3/25.3 1/27

---INDIVIDUAL STATS

Allen rushingJustin Deaton, 4 carries for -12 yardsDalton James, 25 carries for 35 yardsTeam carries, 3 carries for -19 yardsTeam totals: 32 carries for 4 yards

---Allen passing

Justin Deaton, 11-24 for 113 yards, 1 TD---

Allen receivingDakota Nickell, 5 receptions for 52 yardsColten Browning, 2 receptions for 45 yards, TDDalton James, 3 receptions for -1 yardsThirkiel Wedlow, 1 reception for 17 yardsTeam totals: 11 receptions for 11 yards

---SPECIAL TEAMS PLAY

Kick-off ReturnsGunner Holder, 2 for 25 yards (long: 25)Colten Browning 2 for 20 yards (long: 16)

---DEFENSE

Player and total tacklesCody Lively, 10Gunner Holder, 9Dalton James, 9Colten Browning, 8Dakota Nickell, 7 Ty Brown, 3Thirkiel Wedlow, 3Auston Hamilton, 3Tommy Peay, 2Justin Deaton, 1

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Mustangs open play-offs with defending state champsAllen travels to Laverne to face Tiger team on 24-game winning streak

TO LISTEN TO THE ALLEN-LAVERNE football game stream-ing live on the Internet Friday evening, please visit the 100.1 KWFX radio website in Wood-ward. …

Click on the listen on-line tab at the top of the web page. The football game’s pre-game show will come on the stream-ing broadcast shortly after 7 p.m. on 100.1 KWFX radio at http://www.woodwardradio.com

Dakota Nickell wrestles the ball carrier to the ground

Senior Cody Lively man-handles an offensive line-man during a recent contest.

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on both sides, we lost two more tanks and the Infantry Battalion had lost nearly 200 men.

We had been trying to call in air strikes, but the same old story was given - poor visibility - so the strike was cancelled. On the night of De-cember 22nd Jerry sent over a good many transport planes and we feared that they were dropping paratroopers, but it turned out they were dropping ammunition, fuel and rations for Colonel Von Peiper’s Ger-man task force, to whom we had given a beating. Some of the fuel and ammo fell in our laps so the German task Force came up a little short.

One of the best fighting Infantry Divisions we were attached to was the 82nd Air-borne, they worked well with us and our relations continued wherever we were fighting to-gether. During our fighting for Spa, Stoumont and La Gleize, Belgium, we counted over 175 vehicles that had been knocked out during the Battle for the town. We lost six tanks, ten men were wounded, but no one killed.

On December 27th we had accomplished our mission. We destroyed Task Force Von Peiper, and by doing this we stopped the threat of a German Penetration to Liege and the encirclement of Spa. During this fighting, Company C was awarded the Presidential Cita-tion for a job well done.

Boy, was it getting cold in Belgium. It was still snowing and the temperatures hovered between zero and 10 below, and the snow was about a foot deep and our tanks were having trouble staying on the roadway. Steel tracks on the tanks just couldn’t cut the mustard, so we set out to fit all our tanks with rubber tracks. Our mainte-nance officer had trouble find-ing the tracks, but somehow he came up with enough to outfit our Battalion. But to find Grousers was a little harder to get, so we set out looking for knocked out tank destroy-ers, they had thought more about the future. By the first of January we were equipped with Rubber tracks and grous-ers and we were ready for our next assignment. On January 3rd my Company received 12 new Tanks and we had trouble getting these new tanks back to our staging area. The reason was the cold weather, and the snow just kept falling and each tank was equipped with steel tracks and it took two days to get the tanks to us.

Our next mission jumped off with A and B companies attached to the 325th glider Infantry Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division. Company C remained in reserve. Boy, was it noisy on January 4th as the 504th Parachute Infan-try had a mission to take the high ground southeast of the village of Mont de Fosse. By doing this it would permit the 82nd Division to dominate all crossings of the Salm river in the vicinity of Grand Halleux. It took until midnight, but they did it. The quality of the enemy forces opposing us was rapidly deteriorating. The German SS troops were busy pulling out by Von Rundstedt, and less important people were being put in and by this time the Ger-man air attacks had practically stopped.

Our next mission came on

January 7th south of the town of Arbrefontaine. My company was given the job of supporting the 508th Parachute Infantry when my Platoon joined the Third Battalion of the 508th during the attack. My tank crew destroyed an A.T. Gun (antitank gun) after a severe fight. The objective, Their du Mont, was taken, and we set up defensive positions. The next operation for us was on a line extending from the town of Malmedy, south to St. Vith, and we were to drive to the north-east, pierce the Siegfried Line, and hold the position until re-lieved. Word came down that the Germans were beginning a counter attack north along the line on the road that was lead-ing from Herresback. With our tanks and the continued force of the 82nd, we caught the Ger-man column by surprise, we opened fire with all guns and within a few minutes, we killed 65 Germans and captured 201, and no Americans were scratched in this battle.

We were still fighting the weather as well as the Ger-mans, with snow and sleet about three to four feet deep. We ran into some small Ger-man fighting units, but the fight in the German soldiers was almost gone and they had orders to use all of their ammo and then give up if they didn’t get killed in the process. We moved through the small towns in Belgium and we got our orders that we were to drive to the Siegfried Line before the spring thaw.

On January 31st the tempera-ture rose several degrees. This meant double trouble for our tanks. It would mean that we were again road-bound if we could get out of that forest to a point where there were avail-able roads. By nightfall the snow had stopped and all of a sudden the snow had changed to knee deep slush. By the time we were getting used to moving our tanks on the frozen snow, we had to learn to drive our tanks in the mud. This was the way that we learned to drive those Sherman tanks back in Kentucky.

Once the thaw had set in, from our map study of the defense of Udenbreth and Neuhof, there appeared to be one road leading from the main highway near the railroad to the gate through the Siegfried Line. Had the ground re-mained frozen we could have fanned out on a front of about 3000 yards, but now we had to attack in a column down the road and we knew that the losses were going to be heavy, both vehicles and men.

The Battle of the Ardennes was declared by Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expe-ditionary Forces which com-menced on the 16th of Decem-ber 1944 and ended, for the purpose of the record, on the 28th of January 1945. It was officially declared a campaign and the participants were en-titled to a Bronze Battle star.

While I was doing battle with the 740th Tank Battalion in Belgium, my brother, Overton, was also fighting the Germans in and around Bastone with the 101st Airborne Division. Lady Luck ran out on him while his patrol was moving into position, and he was hit by a German sniper under his left shoulder while he was falling to get into position to

fire his rifle and he had to have medical attention. The action was in the area where Bastone was encircled. That is where a German General wanted the 101st to surrender, but General Anthony McAuliffe, at the Ba-stone Garrison, responded to his request by simply “NUTS” and they stayed and fought un-til help came and the German attack was repulsed and all of the injured were evacuated and my brother was sent back to the States.

On February 1st my Com-pany was committed with the Third Battalion of the 325th Glider Infantry of the 82nd Airborne. My platoon led the attack and we moved in to Udenbreth, we shot up the town for 30 minutes, and dur-ing the battle a good combat friend of mine, Corporal Jack Ashley, was killed when a German 88-mm round struck his tank. In that attack, our battalion was badly battered and we hoped that we would have a few days to reorganize and draw more tanks. We were told to spend the 6th of Febru-ary on maintenance and that night and until noon the next day, no sleep, and regardless of how tired we were we always serviced our tanks before we went to bed. The reason for this was, if the tanks ran and our guns would fire we felt like that was our protection and maybe they could save our lives.

Our Battalion maintenance platoon rounded up several fairly good tanks while this last battle was going on, we were trying to scrape enough crews to replace the ones that we lost. While we were getting a break from the fighting, a messen-

ger ran into our headquarters and delivered a message that our Tank Battalion had been transferred to the VII Corp and attached to the Eight Infantry division. Immediately and we were to move to the vicinity of Gressenich. This was to be a secret move and all mark-ings on our tanks were to be

removed and covered up and we were not to reveal our Bat-talion’s name to anyone.

Once more any thought of rest flew out the window, and we were saying good bye to the 82nd airborne Division in hopes that we might fight with each other again. Gen-

Stories of the WWII Daredevils

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Our WWII vets remain heroes to the Belgium citizens with many monuments and sites dedicated to their sacri-fices. Above, a young Belgium boy gets autographs from the Daredevils. Pictured left is Dick Clark, shown right is Harold Bradley.

During a trip back to Belgium the men of the Daredevil unit met with the mayor of Aubin-Neufchatuea. Pictured left to right, veterans Dick Clark, Larkin Dilbeck (seated), the Mayor, and Harold Bradley.

Maria Bosch, who was a young girl in Belgium in 1944 when the battalion stayed in the area, shared a moment with Dick Clark (left) and Harold Bradley.

This World War II era tank is just one of many set throughout Belgium as reminders of the valiant Americans who fought for their freedom. It brought back many memories for Mr. Bradley.

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Calvin dropped a heart-breaker to Caney 38-32 in overtime. The game was

tied at 9 after the first quar-ter. In the second period Calvin was ice cold and did not score a point. They went into the locker room trailing 16-9.

In the third period the Bull-dogs roared back and cut the lead to 25-21. Calvin held Caney to only five points in the fourth quarter and sent the game into overtime tied at 30.

The overtime period was all Caney as they outscored the locals 8-2.

Robert Attkisson led Cal-vin in scoring with 12 points, followed by Blake Fulton with 10. Teddie Yonker scored six points and also hauled down a game high 10 rebounds.

Rounding out the scoring was Michael Lacey with 4.

Friday night the Bulldogs fell to Vanoss 65-34.

They couldn’t get their offense going in the first pe-riod. Vanoss increased their lead to 33-6 at half.

In the third quarter Calvin made a comeback and cut the lead to 44-22. The fourth period was all Vanoss as they rolled up 21 more points to the Bulldogs 12.

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Robert Attkisson led Cal-vin with 14 points and 6 rebounds.

Michael Lacey and Blake Fulton each had 5.

Teddie Yonker and Kaden Turpin added three apiece as did Wesley Bain. Justin Holman rounded out the scoring with a free throw.

LADY BULLDOGSThe Calvin Lady Bulldogs

will be looking for their first win at their homecoming game Friday night.

In their past two games Calvin fell to Caney 52-29 and lost to Vanoss Friday night 70-40.

Lindsay Carter led Calvin in scoring with 11 in the

Caney game followed by Emily Carter with eight. McKenzie Blaylock added six.

Rounding out the scoring was Sara Jennings and Am-ber Harden with 2 apiece.

Ashley Gillean led the Lady Bulldogs in scoring against Vanoss pouring in 14 points. Emily Carter added 12.

Other scoring for Calvin were Lindsay Carter 6 and Sarah Jennings 4 and Brooke Shumacher and Amber with two points each.

Friday night Calvin will face Wanette in their home-coming games. Homecom-ing will begin at 6:00 p.m.

Calvin FFA members for 2013-14 are pictured above. Seated are T.J. Fugitt, Sarah Jennings and Emily Carter. Standing are Principal Tricia Marlow, Patricia Spray, Brooke Schumacher, Rebecca Kiogima, Blake Fulton and Kaden Turpin.

The Lady Bulldogs will be looking for a win this Friday as they host Wanette. Homecoming will be held pregame at 6:00 p.m.

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Suspected cattle thief Larry Gene (Snag) Smith, Jr. (48) surrendered to the Ponto-toc County Sherriff’s office in Ada Tuesday, November 12th. Smith appeared with his lawyer to turn himself in at the Pontotoc County Justice Center around noon. He then appeared before Judge Steven Kessinger by video and a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. He is being held on $500,000 bond. Smith is due

back in court on December 19th.

Smith and an accomplice, David Wallace of Atwood, are charged with the theft of 99 head of cattle belonging to Jet McCoy. The theft was discov-ered the first week of October in Allen.

Special Agents with the Oklahoma Department of Ag-riculture, Food and Forestry began searching for Smith on October 31st and agents have worked with the Pontotoc County District Attorney’s Of-fice to pursue charges.

Smith’s attorney said he turned himself in because he was tired of running. He didn’t do it sooner because he had to put some things in order before he was incarcerated. Smith also said he no place to go.

Jerry Flowers, chief agent of the law enforcement division for ODAFF, said, “Nobody would have anything to do with him because harboring a fugitive in this state (carries)

a stiff penalty, and that’s what we’ve been telling folks. If anyone harbored him, they were going to wind up getting in trouble right along with him, and it just wasn’t worth that.”

According to the report filed in October by Jet McCoy, who is the caretaker of the cattle owned by Randy Heflin, 99 of the 179 steers, weighing between 500 and 700 pounds and pastured on leased land near Allen, had gone miss-ing. Agents invested the theft and discovered at least 43 of the steers were sold through the Atoka Livestock Auction. ODAFF Agent Ricky Rush-ing wrote in his affidavit that David Wallace had previously worked for the owner of the land but was fired in Septem-ber.

“Under Miranda, Smith con-fessed that he did steal steers from Heflin/McCoy Ranch and was accompanied by Wal-lace,” Rushing wrote. “Smith explained how it was Wallace’s idea since Wallace had worked on the ranch and had a key to the gate. About two or three months ago, Wallace called Smith asking him to haul some calves for him.”

Smith also stated he and Wal-lace had made numerous trips to Atoka Livestock, hauling “about six to nine stolen steers each trip during the months of September and October of 2013.”

Investigators reportedly dis-covered evidence that the men had sold steers and were able to track down the steers at various ranches around southern Okla-homa, confirming they were the missing steers belonging to Heflin.

Special Agents with the law enforcement section of ODAFF are available to inves-tigate livestock theft in every county of the state. Cases may be reported to 405-522-6102.

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November has officially ar-rived now that the season’s first Arctic front has swooped in. It may have something to do with Santa looking at his calendar and suddenly realizing that Thanksgiving and Christmas is right around the corner.

Oh well, a bowl of good hot soup on a cold, rainy day is not a blessing to dismiss lightly. Neither is snuggling into a favorite chair later on that evening with an afghan and a good book.

Joyce Searcy sang “Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?” as the special music selection this Sunday. She was pinch-hitting for James Hammonds, but you would have thought she had been practicing all week.

Rev. Karch’s message was from the 17th chapter of I Sam-uel and was titled “How Can We Find Victories in Life?”

Most of us have been famil-iar with the story of David and Goliath since we were children. It is probably on everyone’s list of favorite Bible Stories, and it has taught us much about fac-ing challenges.

In today’s sermon we see that when David arrived on the scene he saw that the battle

was between God and the Philistines, not just a contest between Goliath and some unlucky soldier in Israel’s Army.

David’s response to the situ-ation provides a blueprint that shows us how to serve God and live life victoriously.

First, have no fear. David stepped up to do what needed done.

Second, have confidence. David had faith. God had helped him protect his sheep from a lion and a bear, he rea-soned. God would help him in this situation, too.

Believe firmly that you can do what you need to do. Don’t entertain thoughts of defeat at all.

Third, be prepared. David had a plan, a sling shot, and 5 stones. You can prepare for the challenges you meet each day by praying for God’s guidance and reading your Bible.

In the story Goliath laughs at David and launches into a long speech designed to com-pletely undermine him. David responds with courage, confi-dence, and poise. He simply looks Goliath in the eye and states that God will be deliver-ing him into his hands that very day. End of statement. [No brag, just fact.]

Fourth, know that God is on your side. If you are trying to do God’s will, He is on your side, and who can stand against both you and God?

Back to the story, though. David whirls the stone that flies straight to Goliath’s forehead. Goliath falls, and David cuts off the giant’s head. His vic-tory is complete. This restores the Israeli soldiers confidence, and they destroy Goliath’s brothers and defeat the rest of the Philistine Army.

Several thousand years later, David’s victory plan and the words in Philippians 4:13 still help us win victories over the challenges we face.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Without Christ everything is hard. With Christ we can win victory after victory as we serve God by defeating which-ever giant we’re facing today.

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and hoped to repel any counter-attack Jerry might dream up. We arrived in the town just in time to come under heavy enemy artillery fire. As dawn broke on the morning of March 3rd, we were ready to attack the town of Frechen that was the last strong point before the drive to Cologne. Things were generally brighter all up and down the line. We could see the tower of the Cathedral in Cologne, and we knew that our objective was just about reached. We had rough going all across the Rhine Valley and we wanted to get the job done and close up along the Rhine River as soon as possible, and we hoped that once this happened we would get a few days rest.

Somehow or other the 9th of March seemed like Sunday. There had been no rest for any-one since we had jumped off from Duren on February 23rd. We had been going day and night and we were all border-ing on exhaustion, but the rest and time to try to get our tanks in shape for another run at the Germans all came to a quick stop when we received orders that we were being temporarily attached to the Seventh United States Army for operations in the vicinity of Morhange, France, no later than the 15th of March.

This job that we were to do for the Seventh Army involved breaching the Siegfried Line for the second time. The only thing that we knew for sure about temporary assignment was that we were to be there no later than the 15th of March. After a meeting at First Army Headquarters it was decided that our tanks would be loaded on flat cars at Aachen, Ger-many and the crew member would ride in the boxcars which would be placed ahead of the flatcars and all the other wheeled vehicles would march over land. The overall distance from where we were to our new location was about 350 miles.

Our Battalion arrived at Morhange, France on the 15th of March. We were attached to the 70th Infantry Division, and plans were made for us to sup-port the Division’s proposed attack through the Siegfried Line to capture Saarbruken. But before any fighting could start, we were detached from the 70th and attached to the 68th Division who was set up at Auersmacher, Germany, some 20 miles south of our present location, but about 40 miles away by the road.

On the second day after we arrived at our new assignment, we moved to Aursmacher and we found out that our job was to drive a hole through the Siegfried Line defenses through which the 6th Armored Division could pass through and exploit a breakthrough. The Siegfried Line at this point consisted of large dragons teeth in front of which anti-tank ditches had been dug, roads going through the line had been blasted forming huge craters, and standing guard over these road passages were several pair of enormous concrete bunkers with walls five to six feet thick, some equipped with 75 MM high velocity Anti-Tank guns. Our job was to pulverize these and some 30 or 40 other pill boxes that formed the defense of the Siegfried Line. Jerry had perfect observation on

Emsheim, where our command post was located. Ormeshiem and Ommersheim is where my company had settled in for the time being.

A part of B Company crossed the Siegfried Line and this advanced our front line and enabled us to bring fire on two larger pillboxes. Enemy artillery and mortar fire was extremely heavy through this area. We used a lot of Smoke Screen to protect our tanks as we made our advance. My company was able to move to Ommersheim.

On the 20th of March we made an attack of the higher ground. By this time two holes had been cut through the Sieg-fried Line the day before, one of these holes north of Ensheim on the Ensheim-St. Ingbert road. The other was north of Omnersheim on the Ommer-sheim---Ober-Wurzbach road. This would allow us to go through in two columns and would make the capture of the high ground possible.

Over at Ommersheim, where my company had been operat-ing, the Infantry took their objectives without receiving a shot for some reason - no one had remained to do any shoot-ing - the enemy had gone. Com-pany C and its tanks returned to Ommersheim and were alerted for possible move.

On the morning of the 28th of March we received orders from the 12th Army Group, order-ing us to return at once to the First United States Army and the 8th Infantry Division who were at the time attempting to capture the town of Siegen on the southern edge of the Ruhr Pocket. We were not too eager to go back - fighting was not so rough down here. Well, on March the 31st we loaded our tanks on the flatcars again and headed back North, and April 1st we were due to unload our tanks at Aachen, Germany but our destination was changed and we unloaded at Oden-drof.

By this time we were near the Rhine River before we got or-ders that we were being moved to Southern France. We had been going day and night from the Ruhr River and during this time we had received several replacement troops, and my tank was no exception. I had received a gunner on the tank with no experience.

One day we were chasing the Germans and they were on the run all through the Rhine Valley, and as we approached a small Village a horse drawn vehicle came up from a side road and he turned away from us. I told my gunner to fire his 30-caliber machine gun at him. What you don’t know is the 75-mm gun and the 30-caliber gun switches set side by side and operated by the gunners left foot, and the inexperienced gunner stepped on the wrong switch. He got a direct hit and he blew that horse and man sky high and in the process I was wounded, nothing too serious, but had to have medical atten-tion. I pulled my tank over to the side of the road and got out to wait for the medical team. While waiting, five German SS troops came out of a bun-ker with their hands over their head and surrendered. They had all the fighting they wanted and I was sure glad they did. I received my medical attention and we were back on the road

with my tank and Lt. Tomp-kins tank loaded with Infantry troops on the back of our tanks, we headed for a little town of Zeetze and we took the village without resistance. We moved about 500 yards further and met very heavy resistance. Lt. Tompkins tanks were knocked out. One of his crew was killed, the rest of the crew scrambled for cover. The battle lasted about one hour and half. After Lt. Tompkins tank knocked out, I pulled my tank around his and ordered my crew to start firing everything we had to protect the rest of us.

That day we were in a wood-ed area and I was concerned about using my 75 that some of the shells would explode and injure some of the other men on the ground. A few days before this, my radio operator had asked if I could get him a 30-caliber machine gun and have it mounted on top of the tank. We did and boy it came in handy. The other machine guns jammed and it was up to him to keep the Germans pinned down so we could get everyone back safe and sound, and he did. As it turned out, we only lost one man and no other was wounded. This was the same soldier that cost me a birthday party while we were still at Fort Knox, KY. For our action, he and I were awarded the Silver Star, the third highest Medal the Military presents for heroism. People call us heroes, well at that time I guess we were, but when things happen that fast you do what you can do to survive and save as many of your buddies as possible.

After all this fighting and moving from one end of the combat zone to the other, Ger-man prisoners started giving up and began to march forward to us, and the roads became so jammed packed we couldn’t get our vehicles down the road. Pvt. T. J. Woodress, the soldier who was my radio operator and loader of the 75-MM gun that saved our lives on May 1, went out one day and came back with a company of Ger-man soldiers and they all still had their weapons, so he had them come to attention and open their lines and he took a sack and had them put their weapons in the sack. Then he sent them on their way to a POW camp.

So on May 8th the day that we had been looking forward to ever since we arrived here had come to an end. During our battles through Belgium, France and Germany we had a large number of vehicles, guns and equipment destroyed or captured. We destroyed a total of 69 tanks, 178 other enemy weapons, 550 miscellaneous vehicles, 246 airplanes and 77 miscellaneous items, such as Pillboxes, machine gun nests, river barges. Machine gun po-sitions on the Siegfried Lines were not counted.

While we were overseas and doing battle against the Germans, our tank Battalion was what many considered a separate tank Battalion. We were never attached to any division very long at any one time, when the call came out that a division needed armored support we were ready to go. All in all during the time in Europe, our Tank Battalion was attached to 24 different di-visions, Armies, Army Groups and Corps while fighting for

eral Gavin, Commander of the 82nd, presented a letter of appreciation for our splendid performance while we were attached to his division dur-ing the attack to pinch off the Ardennes, salient, destroying the 62nd Volka Grenadier Di-vision. Following that, we had advanced into Germany to the east, penetrating the Siegfried Line and seizing the key de-fenses at Undenbreth.

On February 8th we moved to Schlich, Germany, a small vil-lage about a mile from Duren, Germany. It would be indeed difficult to anyone to describe the area around Duren. Nearly every building in most of the town had either been smashed flat by bombs or was shot up by Artillery. The surrounding fields had been churned by artillery and mortar fire and there was hardly a square foot of ground that had not been hit. The usual dead horses and cows dotted the countryside. Many of them had been killed by artillery or mortar fire, some had stepped on mines, most of the horses remained hitched to the wagon or other machines they were pulling when hit. They were bloated and smelled to the high heavens.

While we waited for our next assignment, we were near a railway station so we decided that we would cut some railroad tracks in about two foot pieces and spot weld to our tanks for extra protection in hopes that the German AT guns wouldn’t penetrate our armor.

The crossing of the Roer Riv-er was postponed for 24 hours due to heavy rains that flooded the entire Rhineland and also because the Germans were still in control of the large dam and they could open the flood gates, flood the river and wash out any bridge that we could make, and if we got anyone across the river we would be cut off from the rest of the Di-vision without a paddle. While waiting, we got surprised again on the evening of the 11th that the attack had been postponed indefinitely. On this day we had some replacements sent up to us, but these men were not combat ready troops and our only hope was that we could teach them something about combat. The training of the new troops would have to wait for now, and all of them would have to learn on the job so to speak, so the men were as-signed to the tanks that needed to make a full crew.

On the 23rd of February the attack started to cross the Roer River, and it sounded like the world had suddenly begun to explode. It stopped about one hour later and during the 24th most of the elements of the at-tacking force had crossed the river and the town was cleared by nightfall and we left the town of Duren behind. It was said that before the war the town of Duren had 14 residents of Duren who were worth a million dollars each, but you could not tell by the look of the city - not one building escaped the fire power of our troops. One exception, the large Ca-thedral, was left standing.

The attack across the Roer River was costly to Company C; we lost three tanks, three men were killed, and eight other men were wounded. The Company moved into the town of Modrath and on March 2nd we set up defensive position,

again. I received the Purple Heart from this action.

We were told that there was only one bridge still opera-tional across the Rhine River. As I told you earlier in my Army life, we were a Special Tank Battalion. We used it only one time while in training and that was a demonstration for a General while we were at Bouse, Arizona, well we still never got to use it our selves, because the terrain had to be level and smooth for it to be effective and the battle fields over there was no place to use it. I believe it was used one time by another tank Battalion on the Rhine River to protect the bridge from getting blown-up with mines.

In our push to the Rhine our Battalion was the tank bat-talion due to spearhead across the Bridge, but we finally got the needed rest and we were pulled back and let some one else do the crossing. The battle for the Rhur Pocket was over and in many ways it was a steeplechase. From our stand-point it was a hundred miles of spearheading and a grueling, exhausting battle. We had lost as many tanks here as we lost in the battle of the Ardennes. After we crossed the Rhine River the fighting began to taper off and most of us could feel like the war was nearing the end, but there were a few hot pockets that popped up now and then, and we still had to keep our guard up and be ready to defend the areas that we had captured.

On April 18th the 13th Infan-try Regiment in which we were attached to had been ordered to assume the responsibility for the Province of Dussel-forf, Germany and our main job here at Dusselforf was to establish law and order and gather up prisoners of war as well as enemy weapons and ammo. Then on the 19th of April my company moved to the city of Cologne, Germany where the POWs continued to give up and also many dis-placed persons. There were 58 displaced camps in the area, which held from 10,000 down to 500 or so. Then on the 25th of April we received orders that we would be moving from our present location and we would be assigned to the second Brit-ish Army for operations. This involved about 350 miles. After the overland march to Bohlenn, Germany, our Bat-talion was again attached to our favorite fighting machine, the 82nd Airborne Division. The way things started out was the 82nd was to forge a crossing of the Elbe River at Bleckede and another one five miles south to Barskamp. Having secured the bridgehead, this permitted us to attack toward Schwerin and veer to the left and go to the Baltic sea at Wismar. Things were moving real fast and it looked more and more that we could see a light at the end of the tunnel and the war was about to come to an end.

As the month of April came to a close, we had moved a total of 760 miles and had fought under three armies, the First and Ninth U.S. Armies and the 2nd British Army. On May 1st we started our final assault against the Germans and in most cases resistances were with a little artillery fire and a little small arms was also met. On that same afternoon

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the freedom we enjoy today. If I had to pick only one group that we fought with, I would have to go with the 82nd Air-borne Division.

On the 27th of May, the Battalion was sent back to Schwerin, Germany where a memorial service was held for all the tankers who had fallen in battle. During the battles we were in we had 40 soldiers killed in action and many more wounded, some serious enough to them they were sent to the states, while others like myself stayed to fight another day.

A few days later we held a formal parade in the ETO where General Moore of the 8th Infantry division presented Distinguished Unit Badges to the members of Company C. I was a Tank Commander of a tank crew and several other men who were attached to C Company when we stopped Von Rundstedt’s drive in the Ardennes. I believe that every man deserved a medal for valor for his part in the defeat of Ger-many. There are innumerable deeds of heroism that were not recognized.

Orders were flying around about what units would move and what units would stay where they were. We had hoped to stay at Schwerin, but we knew that we would be moving somewhere else, because according to the oc-cupational zones being drawn up the Russians would be mov-ing into Schwerin for army occupation. Our future was very vague; we didn’t know whether we were going to be shipped immediately to the Pa-cific War or whether we would remain in the ETO as an Army of Occupation force. We soon learned that we were to become an Army of occupation and we were ordered to move to Wit-zenhausen, which was a nice size City about 30 miles East of Kassel and the border of the U.S. occupation zone.

We had an education pro-gram as well as athletic and special service programs set up for most of us to take part in, we had a chance to play some baseball and several other games while serving as the occupational forces. When the month of August rolled around, we saw the beginning of the point system for discharge. If we had so many points we could get a trip to the states and be promoted to civilian status. So I was one of those who had enough points to be able to start packing for a trip home. If I remember correctly 12 points were given for each child under 18 years of age, not to exceed three. One point was given for each month of service since Sept. 1940. One additional point was given for each month service overseas. Then we were given five points for each battle star and for each combat decoration, and when I added them all up I had a total of 85 points. I wrote the folks back home and told them it won’t be long now.

When V-J Day was announced on the 2nd of September 1945, we again encountered the same anti climatic condition that had confronted us on V-E Day. For some reason, we couldn’t get into the spirit of celebration, we just went on about our busi-ness, but we did breathe a sigh of relief and a great weight had been lifted from our shoulders. We knew that World War II was

over. No soldier likes to fight a war. Soldiers stop wars; they do not start them.

Victory in Europe came as an anti-climax to us. There was no hilarious celebration as at home. For one thing, we were too busy gathering up prison-ers. Then, too the war had re-ally been over several days as far as we were concerned, and the radio announcement was not news in any sense of the word. We knew there would be an announcement, but we won-dered when it would take place. Rather than celebrate, we felt more the way a builder would feel after having completed a house - this job is finished, now let’s get to the next one.

We did have some cognac and wine which had been do-nated to us through the courtesy of the German Post Exchange Service, but we drank most of that on the nights of the 2nd and 3rd of May, and had very little left for the official 8th of May.

For most part, V-E Day on the banks of Schwerin Sea passed about the same as the others. We tuned in on the BBC to hear Prime Minister Winston Churchill tell England that the war in Germany has ended with their unconditional surrender. Across the lake the Russians put on a good fire-works display by shooting up all their flares, but this had been going on for several days and as we found later, contin-ued for a good many more. Just to the north of us the Seaforth Highlanders got rid of their remaining flares, and not to be outdone, some members of our battalion threw a few hand-grenades, for we had no flares to begin with.

There was an unexplain-able detached feeling in the Battalion about the German surrender. The folks at home and the people in England had heard and read of the victory but we had actually seen the complete disintegration of the enemy before our very eyes. It hadn’t come overnight. It had been a gradual process, more and more discernible as time went on. We had not only witnessed this breakdown, but had considered ourselves in-strumental in accomplishment of it. If an impartial observer looked at the Germans and the U.S, soldier on the 2nd of May, he might have had quite a bit of trouble in telling who looked worst. About the only difference was that we still had the guns in our hands when the shooting stopped. As a matter of fact, we probably appeared to be more on the verge of col-lapse from sheer fatigue than the Germans, for we had been driving forward day and night, and they, for the most part, had been sitting at home eating, drinking and sleeping.

My darkest moment during my tour of duty in Europe was in the early part of the battle of the Bulge when we had been fighting for seven days. We had never seen any fighting until that time, but it doesn’t take long for a man to learn what is meant by the word “scare”. We were drawn back after the seven days were up, but not to rest, just to get ready to draw some more tanks. After we had drawn our tanks, orders came down for us to attack. Well, we knew a little of what was going on. We were to jump off at 0600 hours the next morn-

ing. I was tank commander and it was my first time at it in combat. I didn’t know what my reaction would be. The time came and we were on our way. The ground was covered with snow and it had frozen. All our tanks could do was slip and slide all over the road, but nevertheless we had our objec-tive to take before night. As we moved along we picked up our Infantry. We had our plans worked out for the way to at-tack, but things didn’t work out so well. We had a little bad luck - one of our tanks hit a mine and was disabled, so it couldn’t go any further. So now we had to go on with our other four tanks. We advanced a half mile when a tank destroyer came up from the side road and pulled out in front of our lead tank and Jerry had that spot zeroed in and it exploded, trapping the rest of our tanks and we could not go forward, so we started to back our tanks up. And when that happened, Jerry started to throw some rounds at our tank in the rear and he would had have the rest of the tanks trapped, but we kept moving back. The gunner of the 88 must have been off, because he started firing at my tank. My tank was the third one back. He started throwing them at me. I could look over the side of the tank and see those 88s plowing up the dirt along side of my tank. I counted seven or eight of them and each time every one seemed like it was getting closer. One did get so close that it covered me up with dirt in the turret of my tank. I didn’t know that a tank could move so fast in reverse but I finally got my tank under cover. We were lucky that day and we lost only one tank and the TD. All I can say is that, My Lord must have been riding with me.

From the day that the Japa-nese surrendered it was a long time before I finally got my orders that I was going home. It was nearing Thanksgiving 1945, and it was beginning to look like I would spend an-other Christmas in Europe, but things began to move a little faster and I soon was on my way to France where I boarded a troopship and I spent Thanks-giving day on the high sea. I got so sick I couldn’t enjoy my Thanksgiving dinner, but after a couple of days out at sea I began to feel better knowing that I would soon be back in the good old United States.

After seven days and nights at sea, battling a strong storm, we arrived in New York safe and sound with my feet planted on the ground. Debarking at New York, I was taken to Camp Kilmer, N.J., where I began processing out of the Army life back to Civilian life. The Army personnel, whose duty was to try and sell you the life in the Army, promised me a commission to 2nd Lieutenant if I would re-enlist. I told them that I had enough of the Army life and I would love for them to get on with the processing and make me a civilian as soon as possible.

While I was waiting for my orders to be processed I had a few hours leave. I went into New York City and it was here that I saw my first television, and boy was it small, but we all know now that it was only being tested and it wouldn’t be long until that little picture would be gaining in size.

My processing was complet-ed on the seventh of December 1945 and I arrived at the sepa-ration center at Camp Chaffee, Ark, on December 8th. At the Separation Center I received my honorable Discharge and received my mustering out pay which amounted to only $300 total, but I only received $100 at that time and was told that the rest of my money would be mailed at a later date. I also received $14.30 for travel pay and that was supposed to buy my bus ticket to Pauls Valley, OK. They had it all figured out and that travel pay got me home on December 10th. I was on a bus heading for Pauls Valley, arriving there around midnight. I took a Taxi to 129 N. Chestnut Street, where my wife was expecting me. For the first time in almost three years I was a civilian and look-ing forward to spending some quality time with my wife and families. And having a Merry Christmas.

While I was off serving our Country, Kathleen was work-ing and living with her mother and dad, Floy and Earl Cobble. Kathleen was trying to save all the money she could so we would have a little start when I got home. Also she was keep-ing a scrapbook of all things that was going on. The follow-ing are some of the articles that she kept for me. This one here came from President Harry Truman, who became Presi-dent after the death of Frank-lin D. Roosevelt: “Harold G. Bradley you answered the call for your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the Enemy. I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation, as one of the nation’s finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform, because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example in further exalting our Country in peace.”

Kathleen received a letter from Major General Bryant E. Moore, commander of the 8th Infantry Division. The let-ter stated that “On the 29th of May 1945, I have just awarded the Silver Star Medal to your husband, Sergeant Harold G. Bradley. This award was made by virtue of Gallantry in action. Permit me to share with you the pride, gratification that this award must bring you, and to congratulate you on your con-tribution through your husband to the success of our Military Operations.”

The General orders from the Headquarters of the 8th Infantry Division, states, “By order of the President of the United States, the Silver Star is awarded to Sergeant Harold G. Bradley of the Armored Forces, Company C, 740th Tank Battalion for gallantry in action on May 1, 1945 in the vicinity of Zeetze, Germany, when the platoon leader’s tank was put out of action by Enemy fire, Sgt. Bradley immediately led his tank into the lead posi-tion and directed the fire of the entire platoon, thus prevent-ing it from being encircled. Through his leadership and sound judgment, the enemy counter-attack was repulsed and the supporting infantry-men were given covering fire while they maneuvered to other

positions.”I believe that every man in

our Battalion could be called heroes, but there were 40 men that didn’t live to be called a hero, but nevertheless, they died in combat that those of us that did make it through the war could enjoy the free-dom that we take for granted today.

After returning to the United States and receiving my dis-charge from the Army, I would have loved to have had more time to take life easy, but that would have to come later, because I had to start looking for a job and that was my top priority, it was time for me to get back to work as a civilian. The first place I checked for work was my former employer, G. F. Wacker Stores. They told me when I was drafted that they would make room for me if I wanted to go back to work for them. After my visit with the boss he offered me a posi-tion in the retail store in Pauls Valley, and I started to work in the store after the first of Janu-ary 1946. My wife was already working there. Working at a 5 and 10 cent store was quite a change from the jobs I had just finished.

My time in the Pauls Valley Store was short lived Another store needed someone to man-age a small store in Monahans, TX and they wanted to know if I would be interested in mak-ing the move to West Texas. I jumped at the chance. Before we could make the move, we had to buy a car. We shopped in Pauls Valley but couldn’t find anything. Kathleen’s mother and dad took us to Oklahoma City and we found what we could afford, a 1939 model four door Ford. That was our first car. On our way home I noticed the car was burning oil and at one point we didn’t know if we were going to make it to Pauls Valley. On Monday, Kathleen’s dad took the car to a friend and he pulled a ring job and had it ready to go in a couple of days, and by the weekend we were packing what we could carry with us and we headed out for West Texas where the sand storms were a way of life out there.

A day after we arrived in Monahans, I met with Joe Van-diver, who was the manager of both stores. He filled me in on the position and what he wanted me to do. I hit the work force running and Kathleen was working along my side. I also had two other sales per-sons. One of the largest jobs we had to do was go through the store and all merchandise that was made in Japan we had to pack up all the items and take them out of circulation, due to the war with Japan.

Our first child was born in February, 1948, a son. That year, Kathleen’s dad passed away and we moved back to Pauls Valley where I went to work for the Pauls Valley Daily Democrat and 37 years later, I retired in 1986. Our son, Phil-lip, enlisted in the Air Force in 1966 after graduation from High School, and spent four years serving his country. After leaving the Air Force and start-ing his family, Phillip fell from a cable television tower to his death in 1979. In 1997 health problems in my family made it hard for us to live in Pauls Val-ley, we moved to League City, TX. to be near our daughter

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LEGAL NOTICEIN THE DISTRICT COURT

WITHIN AND FORPONTOTOC COUNTYSTATE OF OKLAHOMA

No. P-2013-81In the Matter of the Estate of IMOGENE FRYE, Deceased.

COMBINED NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE OF HEARING To: All persons interested in the Estate of IMOGENE FRYE. You are hereby notified that on October 14, 2013, the petitioner, Dennis Franklin Frye,

of Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, filed in the District Court of Pontotoc County, a Petition for Summary Administration. The petitioner has alleged that IMOGENE FRYE, age 89, died testate on September 23, 2013, domiciled and residing in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and that the total value of the decedent’s property in Oklahoma is less than $175,000.00.

In an Order for Combined Notice entered on October 29, 2013, the Court found that it should dispense with the regular estate proceedings prescribed by law, appoint a Personal Representative, order notice to creditors and issue an order for hearing upon the Petition for Summary Administration, the final accounting and petition for determina-tion of heirs, legatees and devisees and distribution.

Pursuant to the Order for Combined Notice, all creditors having claims against IMOGENE FRYE, deceased, are required to present the same, with a description of all security interest and other collateral, if any, held by each creditor with respect to such claim, to the Petitioner, Dennis Franklin Frye, c/o Kurt B. Sweeney, P.O. Box 190, Ada, Oklahoma 74821-0190, on or before the presentment date of December 7, 2013, or the same will be forever barred. The claim of any creditor now shown in the Petition will be barred unless the claim is presented to the Personal Representative on or before the presentment date.

Notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held on the 2nd day of January, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock am at the Pontotoc County Courthouse, before the Judge of the District Court. At the hearing the Court will decide whether to approve the Petition for Summary Administration and the final account and petition for determination of heirs, legatees and devisees and distribution of the estate by the Petitioner. The final account and petition for determination of heirs, legatees and devisees and distribution will be filed on or before December 12, 2013.

You are hereby advised that you must file objections to the Petition for Summary Administration and the final account and petition for determination of heirs, legatees and devisees and distribution at least ten (10) days before the hearing and send a copy to the petitioner’s attorney, Kurt B. Sweeney, P.O. Box 190, Ada, Oklahoma 74821-0190, or you will be deemed to have waived any objections. If you have no objections, you need not appear at the hearing nor make any filings with the Court.

If an objection is filed at least ten (10) days before the hearing, the Court will deter-mine at the hearing whether summary proceedings are appropriate and if so, whether the estate will be distributed and to whom the estate will be distributed.

s) Dale Rex #31199for Kurt B. Sweeney, OBA#17544

Sweeney, Draper & Christopher, P.L.L.C.1320 Stone Bridge

P.O. Box 190Ada, Oklahoma 74821-0190

(Published in The Allen Advocate on November 7 and 14, 2013)

LEGAL NOTICEIN THE DISTRICT COURTOF PONTOTOC COUNTY

STATE OF OKLAHOMA Case No. CV-2013-147

TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF ADA, OKLAHOMA, A Non-Profit Corporation, Plaintiff,

vs.BETHEL PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OF ADA, also known as BETHEL PRIMI-

TIVE BAPTIST CHURCH, if in existence, and if dissolved, its unknown members and successors; WALNUT VALLEY PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH of Blanchard, Oklahoma, and its unknown members and successors; PAT LEDFORD, MATTIE LEDFORD, W.M. LEDFORD, and LILLIE LOMAN, if living, and if deceased, their unknown successors; and THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, ex rel. THE OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION; and

The Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Trustees, and Assigns, and the Unknown Successors of MARY RACHEL “MOLLIE” DAGGS, SARAH ELIZABETH SWEENEY, OPAL LEOTA BARRINGER, JAMES W. DAGGS, BATY DAGGS, DAISY L. SANSEVERINO, ELIZABETH KING, and CATHERINE DAGGS, all Deceased; and ZELDA R. SANSEVERINO; Defendants.

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: BETHEL PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OF ADA, also known as BETHEL PRIMI-

TIVE BAPTIST CHURCH, if in existence, and if dissolved, its unknown members and successors; WALNUT VALLEY PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH of Blanchard, Okla-homa, and its unknown members and successors; PAT LEDFORD, MATTIE LEDFORD, W.M. LEDFORD, and LILLIE LOMAN, if living, and if deceased, their unknown suc-cessors; The Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Trustees, and Assigns, and the Unknown Successors of MARY RACHEL “MOLLIE” DAGGS, SARAH ELIZABETH SWEENEY, OPAL LEOTA BARRINGER, JAMES W. DAGGS, BATY DAGGS, DAISY L. SANSEVERINO, ELIZABETH KING, and CATHERINE DAGGS, all Deceased.

TAKE NOTICE that you and each of you, have been sued by the above named Plaintiff in the above entitled action in the District Court of Pontotoc County, State of Oklahoma, and that you must answer the Petition filed by Plaintiff in said cause on or before the 27th day of December, 2013, or said Petition will be taken as true and judg-ment rendered accordingly in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendants above named in said action, quieting title to the following described real property located in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma:

All of Lot 2 in Block 50 of the Original Townsite of the City of Ada, Oklahoma, AND A tract of land in the NW/4 of NE/4 of Section 32, Township 4 North, Range 6 East,

more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the Southwest corner of Lot 2 in Block 50 of the Original Townsite of the City of Ada, Oklahoma; thence West 50 feet; thence North 140 feet; thence East 50 feet; thence South 140 feet to the place of beginning, being a tract 50 feet by 140 feet.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 6th day of November, 2013.Karen Dunnigan, Court ClerkPontotoc County, Oklahoma

By: s) B. MyersDeputy(SEAL)

Barry G. Burkhart, OBA#14092120 South BroadwayAda, Oklahoma 74820(580) 332-2800(580) 332-2811 (fax)Attorney for Plaintiff (Published in The Allen Advocate on November 14, 21 and 28, 2013)

LEGAL NOTICEIN THE DISTRICT COURT

WITHIN AND FORPONTOTOC COUNTYSTATE OF OKLAHOMACase No. JD-2012-13

In the Matter of HEATHER A. NAYLOR, DOB: 12/26/06; ZOEY NAYLOR, DOB: 9/21/2008; RONNIE NAYLOR, DOB: 5/23/2010; Alleged Deprived Child as Defined by the Laws of the State of Oklahoma

Summons and NoticeTHE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, COUNTY OF PONTOTOC TO: Mother: Brandi Herrera – Address Unknown You are hereby notified that a PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS has

been filed in the above styled and numbered case, alleging that the above named child has been adjudicated deprived, and that the State alleges your rights parental rights may be terminated under Title 10A under the Oklahoma statutes. The attached Petition is hereby made a part of the Notice and incorporated by reference.

That this matter will be heard at a hearing upon the Motion on the 6th day of January, 2014 at 1:30 pm in the District Court for Pontotoc County, located at 120 W. 13th St., Ada, Oklahoma, before Judge Martha Kilgore at which time and place you may appear and show cause, if any you have, why order and judgment in the proceedings should not be entered as in the Motion prayed, and you are hereby summoned and notified to be present at said time and place.

You are advised that the respondent parents, guardian or custodian, and respondent child are entitled to be represented by an attorney at each and every stage of the pro-ceedings and if the parties are unable because of lack of present financial resources to obtain an attorney, they are entitled, upon demonstrating this fact to the Court’s satisfaction, to a Court-appointed attorney at no expense to such parties.

Failure to personally appear at this Hearing constitutes consent to the termination of your parental rights to this child or these children. If you fail to appear on the date and time specified, you may lose all legal rights as a parent to the child or children named in the Petition or Motion attached to this Notice.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 7 day of November, 2013.

Karen DunniganCourt Clerk

By: s) G. PingletonDeputy(SEAL)

(Published in The Allen Advocate on November 14, 2013)

LEGAL NOTICEIN THE DISTRICT COURT

WITHIN AND FORPONTOTOC COUNTYSTATE OF OKLAHOMACase No. JD-2012-13

In the Matter of HEATHER A. NAYLOR, DOB: 12/26/06; ZOEY NAYLOR, DOB: 9/21/2008; RONNIE NAYLOR, DOB: 5/23/2010; Alleged Deprived Child as Defined by the Laws of the State of Oklahoma

Summons and NoticeTHE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, COUNTY OF PONTOTOC TO: Mother: William Naylor – Address Unknown You are hereby notified that a PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS has

been filed in the above styled and numbered case, alleging that the above named child has been adjudicated deprived, and that the State alleges your rights parental rights may be terminated under Title 10A under the Oklahoma statutes. The attached Petition is hereby made a part of the Notice and incorporated by reference.

That this matter will be heard at a hearing upon the Motion on the 6th day of January, 2014 at 1:30 pm in the District Court for Pontotoc County, located at 120 W. 13th St., Ada, Oklahoma, before Judge Martha Kilgore at which time and place you may appear and show cause, if any you have, why order and judgment in the proceedings should not be entered as in the Motion prayed, and you are hereby summoned and notified to be present at said time and place.

You are advised that the respondent parents, guardian or custodian, and respondent child are entitled to be represented by an attorney at each and every stage of the pro-ceedings and if the parties are unable because of lack of present financial resources to obtain an attorney, they are entitled, upon demonstrating this fact to the Court’s satisfaction, to a Court-appointed attorney at no expense to such parties.

Failure to personally appear at this Hearing constitutes consent to the termination of your parental rights to this child or these children. If you fail to appear on the date and time specified, you may lose all legal rights as a parent to the child or children named in the Petition or Motion attached to this Notice.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 7 day of November, 2013.

Karen DunniganCourt Clerk

By: s) G. PingletonDeputy(SEAL)

(Published in The Allen Advocate on November 14, 2013)

LEGAL NOTICEIN THE DISTRICT COURT

WITHIN AND FORPONTOTOC COUNTYSTATE OF OKLAHOMACase No. PB-2013-62

In the Matter of the Estates of DOXIE COLBERT and MARY FRANCES COLBERT, Both Deceased.

NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT, PETITION FOR ORDER ALLOWING FINAL ACCOUNT, DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP, FINAL SETTLEMENT, DISTRI-

BUTION AND DISCHARGE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Gregory Dewayne Colbert, Personal Representa-

tive of the Estates of Dixie Colbert and Mary Frances Colbert, both Deceased, having filed in this Court his Final Account of the administration of said Estate, his Petition for Order Allowing Final Account, Determination of Heirship, Distribution and Discharge of said Personal Representative, the hearing of the same has been set by the Judge of this Court for Monday, the 16th day of December, 2013 at 9:00 o’clock a.m. at the Pontotoc County District Courtroom, Pontotoc County Courthouse, located in Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and all persons interested in said Estate are notified to then and there appear and show cause, if any they heave, why said Account should not be settled and allowed, the heirs of said deceased determined, said Estate distributed and the Personal Representative discharged.

DATED this the 4th day of November, 2013.Thomas S. Landrith

Judge of the District CourtKenneth R. Johnson130 East 14th, Drawer 1690Ada, OK 74820580/332-2558Attorney for Personal Representative (Published in The Allen Advocate on November 14 and 21, 2013)

and her family and Kathleen’s doctors in Houston.

Many years had passed and the 740th Tank Battalion had been having reunions, but I was never able to attend. In 1997, several members of the Battalion traveled to Europe to retrace the tracks we had left behind at the end of WWII. They returned from their so-journ to share their accounts of old friendships renewed and the many memorials they had visited in Belgium which were situated at various locations in tribute to the many allied soldiers who had fought and died there. To their surprise some even bore mention of the 740th. Subsequently, at the annual meeting of the Associa-tion in September 1997, it was suggested that since so many units had placed monuments to memorialize their comrades, it would be fitting for the heroes of the 740th to be represented as well.

The membership favorably received the idea of a monu-ment project. A campaign was initiated for raising funds and immediate discussion ensued concerning preliminary sketch-es. Following the January 1998 Board meeting, designs for our monument were reviewed. There was a monument in Du-mas, TX, that was dedicated by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and it was suitable in design to what our organization had in mind.

Contact was made with our friends, Marcel and Mathilde Schmetz of Clermont, Bel-gium, for researching monu-ment manufacturers, compar-ing their capabilities, materials, credibility and pricing. As to

the location, our primary con-cern was that the monument be place in any one of the many areas where the Battalion had been stationed or engaged in combat and that the particular site be properly maintained. The Battalion also sought au-thorization from the city gov-ernment to conduct a formal dedication at a convenient time of the year. Marcel and Ma-thilde dedicated themselves to our project, spending countless hours in obtaining the particu-lars as well as contacting the various city heads. After sev-eral meeting with Mr. Dewez, Mayor of Dalhem/Neufcha-teau, we were advised that the ground had been designated for the monument. By this time the monument dimensions had been finalized and submitted to the selected Monument Com-pany for a final quote.

So compelling was the enthu-siasm, that our generous mem-bership came through with the necessary funds in just a matter of months. On April 24, 1999, our 20-month effort culmi-nated with amazingly beautiful results. The dedication of the monument embodied in stone and granite the lasting bond of love among patriots.

The monument was funded through generous, voluntary contributions of Tankers and their families. Tanker widows and their families and fam-ily members of those killed in action, all members of the 740th Tank Battalion Asso-ciation. The memorial’s main structure stands nine feet in height and ten feet in width. It is cut of Belgian blue stone and black granite, constructed and installed by the Pesser

Pierres and Marbres, of Aubel, Belgium. The protectors of our monument are Monsieure Desire and Charles Wiels of Dalhem/Neufchateau.

On April 24, 1999, members of the 740th Tank Battalion and citizens of Dalhem/Neufcha-teau and the surrounding area dedicated the monument to the members of the Battalion who gave their lives for our country and to the citizens of the area who took our members into their homes and comforted them during the dark days of November and December, 1944, prior to the battalion’s entrance into combat dur-ing the Battle of the Bulge. Although the monument was late in becoming a reality, our members often wished that a marker of some kind could be erected in Belgium dedicated to the effort and struggle they encountered there. Due to the fact that our members were raising families, making a liv-ing and dealing with life, the monument was delayed until this time.

I was not able to make the trip for the dedication of our monument. Those who made the trip had the dedication cer-emony videotaped and a gold medallion made so that those unable to attend could remem-ber this special occasion.

The 740th Tank Battalion now has monuments erected at Camp Bouse, Arizona, Fort Knox, Kentucky and Dalhem/Neufchateau, Belgium.

In July of 2004, I had the op-portunity to return to Europe with a tour group of 29 people, and we honored the men killed in action at the Monument with a special program. This was the first time I had returned to Europe in 60 years and will be the last time. The years are creeping up on all World War II Veterans. There are reports that 1000 vets are dying each day. How many are there left that haven’t told their stories?

2004 was NOT the final return to Europe for Harold Bradley. Harold made sev-eral more trips with the bat-talion, including a trip in 2011 when, at the age of 86, Harold climbed on top of a Sherman Tank in the middle of Bastogne, Belgium. And in June 2013, I was privileged to be traveling buddies with Harold Bradley on our trip to Germany and Belgium with the 740th Tank Battalion.

Harold’s energy and enthu-siasm will surprise one; and if one thinks Harold is an aver-age old man, one would be wrong. Harold is anything but average. He is a gentleman, patriot, Silver Star winner, writer, father, grandfather, and a widower. Harold is ready at all times to pass down his wisdom of life experience and his war memories for those of younger generations (like my-self) that haven’t experienced the things he did.

I was privileged to get to sit beside him as we traveled across Belgium and Germany, but more importantly I’m privi-leged to call him my friend.

~ Jonathan Ellingsworth

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Tupelo School Reunion The annual Tupelo School Reunion will be held Saturday,

November 30th, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m., in the school cafeteria. Sandwiches will be furnished and those attending are asked to please bring a dessert.

Theme for the 2013 reunion is “Golden Oldies” and guests are asked to bring school memorabilia that is 50-years or more old.

The Allen Public Library is hosting an “Oasis of Reading” Scholastic Book Fair this week. The Library/Fair is open from 8 am until 6 pm on Thursday, Friday and Monday (November 14, 15 and 18) and 1 to 5 pm on Sunday, the 17th.

Book Fairs benefit both the public and school libraries. Come in and shop!

Allen Pre-K teacher, Ms. Laxton, won the big prize for pre-viewing the Book Fair this year. She is the recipient of $100 worth of books and goodies. Other winners of $20 in books were Ms. Mills for Pre-K; Ms. Laden and Ms. Scroggins for 1st grades; Ms. Johnson and Ms. Pitts for 2nd grade. Classroom wish lists are posted for you to shop for your favorite teacher.

Allen Book Fair Continues until Sunday

Lindsey Laxton was the lucky winner of the door prize and collecting $100 of books and goodies.

Ada Faith Assembly of God Women’s Ministry is having a Fall Bazaar on Saturday, November 16th, from 9 am to 3 pm. There will be crafts, quilts, house wares and food. Come shop in the Fellowship Hall.

The church is located on the J.A. Richardson Loop, west of Nichol’s $ Saver grocery store. The fellowship hall entrance is the side door next to the church’s north entrance.

Craft Show Saturday at Ada Church

Since Sunday was the day before Veterans Day, we hon-ored our veterans in our morn-ing service. After Sunday School, we said the flag salute and sang patriotic songs in the congregational singing. Our children sang “I May Never March in the Infantry” and Kelsey played “America the Beautiful” on her violin. We then watched a video en-titled “God Bless America,” which highlighted all the branches of the service. We recognized our veterans that were there. Jennea read a poem and our group sang a medley of patriotic songs.

Bro Larry’s sermon taken from Deuteronomy 6: 4-5; Genesis 1:1; and John 1:1 was entitled “One God or three?”. There is only one God. In the ancient world many gods was the norm. Through divine rev-elation Israel learned that there is only One God. He is the Creator, Sustainer, Provider, Protector, Leader, etc. The Bi-ble is the story of God at work in this world. In the Bible God expresses Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The one God is worthy of all our affection. We are to love Him with all our heart. Our love for Him is to be greater than all other loves. We are to love Him with all our soul.

All that we are and ever hope to be is wrapped up in Him. We are to love Him with all our strength. This reminds us that we are created to serve god physically. There are things to do in the kingdom that requires us. Witnessing, ministering, building, and helping others. God has no hands on earth but our hands. Without intentional effort many things will come first before God. Anything that comes before God ultimately damages everything else.

We invite you to attend church with us. Sunday we will have our Thanksgiving Dinner after services.

Atwood Church of the Nazarene

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!....was that Superman?? Allen was super safe Monday, October 21st, with all the Super Heroes in town attending Beta Sigma Phi’s Halloween party hosted by “Spi-derman” Janice Deaton.

While enjoying hero sandwiches the group was surprised by the arrival of “Super Santa” Joy Anderson. “The Hulk” Brenda Johnson, “Elasta Girl” Jill Kaminski, guest “Super Shakespeare” Jan Moore, “Bat Girl” Tammy Frederick, “Super Man” Cindy Davis, “Super Nan” Tanya Caldwell, “Super Man” Sue Boyd, guest “Flash Gordon” Terry Riddle, “Super Mom” Jennifer Smith, “Super Granny” Cindi Sanders, and guest “Super Memo” Thelma Goddard had pumpkin and a variety of other flavored cheesecake, pumpkin roll ice cream and delicious homemade cookies for dessert while sharing who their real life heroes are.

Plans were finalized for the carnival cakewalk and the Super Heroes sped off into the night returning to their regular lives.

Sorority Has Super Time

MISDEMEANORSAshley Nicole Cross—

driving under the influence by a person under 21

Sherwood Ray Jackson Jr.—domestic abuse-assault & battery

Jennifer M. Martin—driv-ing a motor vehicle while under the influence of al-cohol

Tony Ray Sands—driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol ag-gravated

Chad Sinclair—public intoxication

Bradley Ray Williams—driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol

MARRIAGEArthur Lee Green, McA-

lester & Karen LaDonna Albrighth, Lamar

DIVORCECasey Bear vs James

BearStephen Hearn vs Felicia

HearnSamantha Jo Lambert vs

Jeffrey LambertCIVIL

State of Oklahoma/Okla-homa Tax Commission vs Carl Wayne Nester—tax warrant

Cavalry SPV I LLC vs Lacey Davis—indebted-ness

SMALL CLAIMSSteve Bauman vs Liz

Roach—damagesAnna Marie Hubbard vs

William Spars—entry & detainer

Muscogee Creek Nation Housing vs Kesha L. Piza—entry & detainer

Muscogee Creek Nation Housing vs Eliza Barnett—entry & detainer

TRAFFICNowell Leann Aguilera—

failure to comply with com-pulsory insurance law

Chasity Austin—speeding 1-10 mph over limit

Amber Nichole Bryant—speeding 1-10 mph over limit

Kenneth Gabriel Carter—driving under suspension-3rd offense

Brent L. Dahle—driving under suspension-1st of-fense

Bryan Scott Fitzgerald—driving under suspension

Max Ellig Frye—driving under suspension-2nd of-fense

Michaela Gayler—speed-ing 1-10 mph over limit

Mary Ellen Gewitsch—no seat belt

Michael Tanner Goforth—speeding 1-10 mph over limit

Patrick Taylor Goodwin II—driving under suspen-sion-1st offense; speeding 1-10 mph over limit

Shawn Allen Gray—no seat belt

Madison Greenwood—speeding 1-10 mph over limit

Donna K. Harjo—no seat belt

Jacob Lee Hopper—driv-ing under suspension-1st offense; speeding 1-10 mph over limit

Micha Jackson—no seat belt

Arthur Johnson—no seat belt

Kaylin Denise Kellogg—speeding 1-10 mph over limit

Jamie Wayne Lassiter—speeding 16-20 mph over limit

Jennifer M. Martin—trans-

porting open container-beerLogan Kyle Dontae Mill-

er—no seat beltKenneth Daniel Mooney—

driving under suspensionKyle D. Pipkin—operating

motor vehicle without valid driver’s license

Shellie Kaye Rogers—failure to stop at stop sign; failure to comply with com-pulsory insurance law

Bret Allen Stapp—speed-ing 21-25 mph over limit

Anthony Ross Thetford—driving under suspension

Brandon Vaughn Tinsley—operating motor vehicle in manner not reasonable and proper

Matthew Trump—speed-ing 1-10 mph over limit

Mario Josue Velasqez—no seat belt

Tymber Nicole Ward—no seat belt

Adam Eugene West—no seat belt

William Thomas West—no seat belt

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WANENMACHER’STULSA ARMS SHOW

November 9 & 10WORLD’S LARGEST GUN & KNIFE SHOW!

Bring your Guns to Sell, Trade or Free Appraisal.See Annie Oakley's and Theodore Roosevelt's Guns!

Tulsa Fairgrounds – Sat: 8-6; Sun: 8-4. Tell your Friends!

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WORLD’S LARGEST GUN & KNIFE SHOW! Bring your Guns to Sell, Trade or Free Appraisal.

See Annie Oakley's and Theodore Roosevelt's Guns!Tulsa Fairgrounds – Sat: 8-6; Sun: 8-4. Tell your Friends!

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Stockers & Feeder • Pairs, Cows & BullsWednesdays starting at 9:00 a.m.

Steers350-378 .............................$215.00-$229.00403-435 .............................$201.00-$215.00450-498 .............................$195.00-$208.00485-490 .............................$180.00-$186.00510-545 .............................$179.00-$191.00560-570 .............................$168.00-$170.00604-638 ...........................................$162.00608-641 .............................$152.00-$155.00770-788 .............................$148.00-$155.00

HEIFERS300-328 .............................$195.00-$203.00370-398 .............................$189.00-$198.00405-446 .............................$180.00-$189.00465-475 .............................$163.00-$175.00518-540 .............................$158.00-$161.00550-587 .............................$147.00-$157.00594...................................................$144.00612-629 .............................$144.00-$146.00

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AUCTIONSAT., DEC. 7, 11 AM

119 CR 2380 BAGWELL, TX 75412 (ON SITE TRACT #1)

546 ± ACRESRED RIVER COUNTYBAGWELL, TEXASBEAUTIFUL HOME

IRRIGATION • CREEK BERMUDA GRASS • TIMBER

OPEN HOUSE DATES: Nov. 24, 1-3 PM & Dec. 6th, 1-5PM

TRACT 1: 346± Acres. TRACT 2: Home & 10± Acres. 3,000± Sq. Ft. brick home with 3 bedrooms, 2 Full Baths & 2 half baths. TRACT 3: 190± Acres 30’ x 60’ metal building; Barn Master 36’ x 36’ horse barn w/6 stalls. 60’ x 100’ hay barn; 20’ x 100’ pipe/metal covered hay stor-age. There is an irrigation well (1,000’ deep) pumps 350 g.p.m., 24 hours with 20’ drop down, 6 5/8” casing, 4” sub pump. Pond is 17± feet deep. TERMS: Look online or call for brochure to get terms and any other info needed.

www.AllianceAuctioneers.com254-965-4040

Brent Graves, TX Broker 0497549. Texas Auction License #13507

AUCTIONSAT., DEC. 7, 11 AM

119 CR 2380 BAGWELL, TX 75412

(ON SITE TRACT #1)

546 ± ACRESRED RIVER COUNTYBAGWELL, TEXASBEAUTIFUL HOMEIRRIGATION • CREEK

BERMUDA GRASS • TIMBER

OPEN HOUSE DATES: Nov. 24, 1-3 PM & Dec. 6th, 1-5PM

TRACT 1: 346± Acres. TRACT 2: Home & 10± Acres. 3,000± Sq. Ft. brick home with 3 bedrooms, 2 Full Baths & 2 half baths. TRACT 3: 190± Acres 30’ x 60’ metal build-ing; Barn Master 36’ x 36’ horse barn w/6 stalls. 60’ x 100’ hay barn; 20’ x 100’ pipe/metal covered hay storage. There is an irrigation well (1,000’ deep) pumps 350 g.p.m., 24 hours with 20’ drop down, 6 5/8” casing, 4” sub pump. Pond is 17± feet deep.TERMS: Look online or call for brochure to get terms and any other info needed.

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Mondays ~ 5:30 pmHoldenville

To Consign Call405-221-0535

JimLock StorageMini Storage Units

3 sizes to choose from(405) 645-2457

The Gun Store100 N. Hinckley, Holdenville

(405) 379-3331Cash for Gold & Silver Coins

Buy – Sell – Trade

PositionsIMMEDIATE OPENING —

Full time position with benefits, some overtime. Apply in person at Cloverleaf Feed, Stonewall, OK. (850) 265-9200

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IMMEDIATE OPENINGS FOR CLASS A CDL DRIVERS — Must be at least 23-yrs of age with 2-yr verifiable experience and clean MVR. Home Sunday and Monday. Pre-scheduled routes. 401K w/employer 50% match. Weekly pay. Health,

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NEW AGE PROJECT is ac-cepting applications for a Site Manager at the Gerty Nutrition Center. Position is Monday through Friday, must be able to lift or move up to 50 lbs., have a courteous disposition, maintain participant confidentiality, pass a drug test, and have a clean driv-ing record. Applications can be picked up at the Nutrition Center or the office in Holdenville at 323 Broadway of America. Please send applications to:

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For SaleFOR SALE — 3 Bed, 1-1/2

bath brick home with double carport. Will consider trade for land of equal value. (580) 320-3266

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FOR SALE — 2012 Impala LTZ. Leather, sun roof, loaded. Only 9,000 miles. Call (580) 310-4262.

FOR SALE — 2003 Chev-rolet Silverado 1500 LS 2WD Extended Cab, 5.3 L. 150,000 miles. Custom rims and tires. $7,000.00 Farmers State Bank, (580) 857-2402

SPECIAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM! Own land/Fam-ily land ZERO down. New and Repo homes. No Land? We have a home program for you. Don’t prejudge, E-Z qualify by phone. $1,000 furniture package with purchase. WAC. 405-631-7000 or 405-635-4338.

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Garage SaleGARAGE SALE — 207 N.

Cleveland St, November 15 & 16. Friday 8 to 4; Saturday 8 to 12. 57” oak desk & hutch, glass top coffee table and end tables, Hoover vac, men & women clothes, Home Inte-rior, small appliances, fishing misc, Christmas misc, shoes, storage containers, cookbooks, new carpet cleaner, dishes, 27” RCA TV

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Bryant Pecan Co.We are opening a new store in

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Skelton’s Dive-Drive thru - walk up - outhouse

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Basketball Season is coming soon...

2 designs - 2 colors - something for everyone!

Order now and be ready!

Orders being taken until next Tuesday - Order forms will be circulating around town or call Julie Mills (580)272-3107 or Linda Baber (580)421-5182

short & long sleeve ts &

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adult t’s in the new soft

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adult & child sizes

*JV Boys Game at 5:00 pm/HS Games at 6:30 pmNov. 21 Calvin Away*Nov. 22 Asher Away*Dec. 2-7 Pontotoc Conf Tourn @ CalvinDec. 10 Wanette Away*Dec. 13 New Lima Home*Dec. 17 Roff Home*Dec. 19 Weleetka Home*Jan. 7 Tupelo Home*Jan. 9-11 Moss TournamentJan. 14 Kiowa Away*Jan. 16 Hartshorne Home*Jan. 20-25 Pott. Co. Tourn @ OBU-ShawneeJan. 30 Sasakwa Home*Jan. 31 Vanoss Away*Feb. 4 Wetumka Away*Feb. 7 Stonewall Home*Feb. 11 Bowlegs Away*Feb. 14-15 District Tournament

Allen High School BasketballSchedule

The annual Allen Community Thanksgiving Service will be held Sunday evening, November 24th, 6:00 p.m. This year’s wor-ship service will be at the Richmond Avenue Free Will Baptist Church.

Community Thanksgiving Friday, out & about from

Tulsa for the weekend, was Diane Miller. While here she spent a night with Fay Rinehart. Joining in that visit were Sarah Randell and Carol Roebuck. She also visited in the home of Jearl and Linda Knighten.

Mrs. Miller spent Saturday night with her brother and family, Stormy and Debbie Rinehart and Jesse.

Others she visited while here were Mike and Tammy Lawler, Kayla and Lauren.

—O&A— Visiting in Ada recently, at

the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Manuel and their grandson,

Charlie, were Martha and Scot-ty Files, Dennis Files, Desiree and Isaiah, and Betty Finney.

Joining in that visit were Mr. and Mrs. Leon Knighten of Tupelo.

The Manuels are former Allen residents who recently celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.

—O&A— Tyler and Raiden Harrington

came to Allen on Saturday and spent the afternoon visiting family. They spent time with Joanie Harrington, Glenn and Joetta Harington, James and Charlene Summers, and Adam and April Burris.

—O&A—

Aaron Finney and Betty Finney attended the 7th Annual Singing at Johnson’s Chapel in Citra this past Saturday night. The singing is held in memory of Sister Sue Walton. Also attending were Randy and Rhonda Nation.

—O&A— Several from the Allen United

Pentecostal Church attended a Ladies Retreat, which was held in Tulsa this past weekend.

Attending were June Vinson, Debbie Vinson, Sandy Leal and Gina, Shirley and Michelle Riley, Joyce Reich, Sylvia, Autumn and Kylie McNeely, Andre Pegg and Sue Sanders.

Other family members and friends joining them at the re-treat were Gladys Moore and Syvilla from Petrola, Texas; and Charlotte and Tammy Vin-son, Natalie Sommers, Stepha-nie and Phoebe Sharp, Pam Bennett, Rhonda Pachucki and Londa Litke.

—O&A— Out & about, visiting at the

Gary Vinson and Carl Vinson homes has been Randy Vinson and Dawson from Tupelo, Mis-sissippi.

The Allen 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade want to thank Jimmy & Rita Nix for sponsoring their trip to the pump-kin patch.

Also thanks to Stephen Caldwell for volunteering to drive the bus for us.

We had an awesome time. Thanks

• Thanks •

The Treat family would like to thank their friends and neighbors for their kindnesses during Bob’s recent surgery and recovery. Your calls, visits, cards and gifts of food were greatly appreciated.

Bob & Joyce Treat& Family

Thank You

Out & About

Ada Faith Assembly of God Women’s Ministry is having a Fall Bazaar on Saturday, November 16th, from 9 am to 3 pm. There will be crafts, quilts, house wares and food. Come shop in the Fellowship Hall.

The church is located on the J.A. Richardson Loop, west of Nichol’s $ Saver grocery store. The fellowship hall entrance is the side door next to the church’s north entrance.

Fall Bazaar Saturday at Ada Church

Allen Food Center • VISA • MasterCard • Amex • Discover Accepted• Money Orders• Senior Citizen Discount Wednesdays

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Downtown Allen • 857-2627

Open Sundays12 to 5

Sale runs November 14 through November 20

Campbell’s

CHOICE FRESH MEAT

GreenCabbage

Lay’s

Shurfi ne

VegetableOil

$2 48 ozbottle

C&H

Sugar

Shurfi ne Grade A Vitamin D

12.6 to 14 oz

Milk - whole- 2%- 1%- Skim

Kraft Wrapped

Velveeta Slices

Tony’s

Pizza2 $4

DAIRY AND FROZEN PRODUCE

Family Pack Chicken

Thighs or Drumsticks

USDA Choice Boneless Certifi ed Hereford

ArmRoast

Bar-S

ChoppedHam

Lb

for

Handi-Foil

TurkeyRoasterPans

Bulbed

Green Onions

for

Western Family

BathroomTissue

Shurfi ne Ready to Spread

Frosting

Shurfi neFrench Fried Onions 6 oz

Shurfi ne

CreamSoup 69¢

13 lbbag

Shurfi ne White Sandwich

Bread

¢

Fresh Dole

Cranberries4 pack

Tomatoes$159

4 pack

PotatoChips

99

Chunky Soups

16.5 oz

box2 literbottle

Sierra Mist, Pepsi or Mountain Dew

$¢

$ 2494 lbbag

Health & Beauty Care

Allergy CenterWestern Family

FREE

3$2

$49912 roll pkg

$199

$1

¢99bunch

$512 oz bag

299$Lb

Honeysuckle Grade A Self Basting

Turkeys

Lb

¢99all sizes

3$212 ozPkg

Hormel

Rev Wraps

¢993 ozPkg

selectvarieties

Bar-S

MeatBologna

¢9912 ozPkg

Original or thick sliced

Bar-S

SlicedBacon

7$2 12 ozPkg

Hillshire Farm’s

LittleSmokies

2$ 99original or beef

13-14 oz Pkg

Cake MixesShurfi ne Layer

4$2select18.8 ozvarities 2 all

$4.29varieties

Gold Medal

Flour

$1995 lbbag

all purpose or unbleached

Shurfi ne

Stuffi ng

¢996 oz

Shurfi ne

ChickenBroth

32 ozasceptic

pack 3$2

Shurfi neChocolateBakingChips

$19912 oz

Shurfi ne

Fancy cutYams

3$229 ozcan

BUY 1, GET 1 OF EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE

16 oz

10 oz

- Chicken- Celery- Mushroom

99¢24 ozloaf

¢59lb99gallon

$2Shurfi ne

assorted 8 oz tub

Blue BellIce Cream

991/2 galall rims

9912 ozPkg

Cottage Cheese

$28924 ozcarton

Marie Callender

Pies

¢

¢99ToppingCool Whip

99$5 fruit or cream varieties

We have

6

$5

$ ¢9979Call ahead

we’ll have it ready!Hunt’s Bro. Pizza

89

Cranberries

2

$32

- semi sweet- milk chocolate

4 varieties

assorted8 oz tub