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Dec 6, 20203 min read

366. Pensacola's First WWII Casualty

Today is known as "Pearl Harbor Day," an honor set aside for the men and women killed or wounded during the attack there by Japanese...

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172. Pensacolian's Husband First to Land on Saipan 1944

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Jan 6, 20192 min read

172. Pensacolian's Husband First to Land on Saipan 1944

Coll Hutcheck "Red" McLean was born on December 30, 1919 in Evansville, Wisconsin to the union of Coll McLean and Anne Hutcheck. His...

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154. Pensacola Brothers Killed Serving Their Country

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Nov 8, 20182 min read

154. Pensacola Brothers Killed Serving Their Country

Private Ralph Lamar Gilmore was born on September 5, 1925 in Brandenburg, Alabama to the union of David Cleveland Gilmore and Sarah Lydia...

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131. First Pensacola Female Soldier Wounded Belgium 1944

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Oct 15, 20181 min read

131. First Pensacola Female Soldier Wounded Belgium 1944

Gwendolyn Eunice Yniestra was born in Pensacola on January 18, 1915 to the union of William Brent Yniestra and Ethel E. Foster. Her...

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126. Walnut Hill Soldier Killed in France 1944

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Oct 2, 20181 min read

126. Walnut Hill Soldier Killed in France 1944

Leon A. Barron was born in Walnut Hill on July 7, 1014 to the union of James Calhoun Barron and Margaret "Maggie" E. Mayo. His father was...

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125. Pensacola High Grad Killed in Italy 1944

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Sep 27, 20182 min read

125. Pensacola High Grad Killed in Italy 1944

2Lt. Robert Minns Robertson, Pensacola High Class of 1941 was the son of Herman Sternberg Robertson and Florence May Pilcher. Born in...

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122. Tommy Dubuisson Shot Down Over Italy 1944

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Sep 16, 20182 min read

122. Tommy Dubuisson Shot Down Over Italy 1944

Thomas Erie "Buddy" Dubuisson, Pensacola High Class of 1942 was the son of Benjamin A. & Mary E. Dubuisson and brother of Gloria of the...

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121. Pensacola Marine Killed on Iwo Jima 1945

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Sep 15, 20182 min read

121. Pensacola Marine Killed on Iwo Jima 1945

Hubert Alexander "Smiley" Arnold was born on August 11, 1923 in Pensacola, Florida, the son of Arnold L. Arnold and Rosa Bell Sowell....

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120. Pensacola High Soldier Killed in Germany 1944

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Sep 5, 20182 min read

120. Pensacola High Soldier Killed in Germany 1944

Benjamin Franklin Laughton Jr., Pensacola High Class of 1932, was the son of Benjamin F. Sr. and Leola Belle Davis of Bagdad, Florida....

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77. Pensacola High Grad Killed on Guadalcanal 1942

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Jul 3, 20182 min read

77. Pensacola High Grad Killed on Guadalcanal 1942

One of the first land battles in the Pacific was on the banks of Alligator Creek on Guadalcanal by the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Marine...

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75. PHS Grad Killed on Tinian Bombing Mission 1945

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Jun 21, 20182 min read

75. PHS Grad Killed on Tinian Bombing Mission 1945

After the islands of Guam, Saipan, and Tinian were secured by the Marines, the US Navy Seabees went into a building frenzy to build their...

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61. Pensacola High's Ray Gilmore Wounded South Pacific

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May 4, 20182 min read

61. Pensacola High's Ray Gilmore Wounded South Pacific

One of Pensacola High School's students (Class of 1943) took part in the World War II landing at Hollandia in the New Guinea Campaign on...

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48. PHS Grad Killed in Germany Bombing Raid 1944

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Apr 10, 20181 min read

48. PHS Grad Killed in Germany Bombing Raid 1944

Charles Wesley Mankin Jr. was born on June 20, 1922 to the union of Charles W. Mankin Sr. and Elsie Letson. He was a graduate of...

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45. PHS WWII Casualty Brought Home After 65 Years

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Apr 3, 20182 min read

45. PHS WWII Casualty Brought Home After 65 Years

Born in 1925 in St. Augustine, Florida, Walter Adell “Rick” McClellan moved to Pensacola with his parents in 1932. Upon graduation from...

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43. PHS Grad Killed Aboard the Sub USS Trout 1944

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Mar 29, 20182 min read

43. PHS Grad Killed Aboard the Sub USS Trout 1944

Jack Gifford Ehlerding graduated from Pensacola High School in the Class of 1940. He was born in 1923 in Polk County, Minnesota, the son...

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42. PHS Airman Killed in WWII Bombing Mission 1944

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Mar 28, 20181 min read

42. PHS Airman Killed in WWII Bombing Mission 1944

Staff Sergeant Julius Cornelius Nord was born in Indiana in October 1, 1923 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard "Dick" Sweetman. He spent two years...

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41. Hollywood's First "Lone Ranger" Killed on Tinian July 1944

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Mar 26, 20181 min read

41. Hollywood's First "Lone Ranger" Killed on Tinian July 1944

America’s first “Lone Ranger” was none other than Lee Berriam Powell in the popular Western series in 1937. Following the initial movie,...

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33. Adopted Pensacolian Killed in Crash Off USS Essex 1944

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Mar 11, 20182 min read

33. Adopted Pensacolian Killed in Crash Off USS Essex 1944

Sadly, one adopted Pensacolian never made it to the battles of World War II. Flying at any time was a dangerous profession but during...

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29. Pensacola High Grad of 1943 Killed on Peleliu with USMC

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Mar 10, 20182 min read

29. Pensacola High Grad of 1943 Killed on Peleliu with USMC

When World War II erupted with Japan Pensacolian Jacque “Jack” Warren Eubanks (below) enlisted in the Marine Corps right after graduation...

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28. Pensacola High Grad of 1937 Trains Actor Clark Gable

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Mar 10, 20182 min read

28. Pensacola High Grad of 1937 Trains Actor Clark Gable

Following Pearl Harbor James Woodrow Ward reenlisted as a private in the US Army on August 19, 1942 and eventually wound up in the air...

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