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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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Jan 24, 20192 min read
187. Pensacolian's Husband Killed in South Pacific 1944
As so often happened during WWII, one of our Tate High School students met and married a young aviator that caught her eye in his spiffy...
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Jan 11, 20192 min read
176. Pensacola Captain of USS Suwanee Killed in Crash 1945
Charles Clarke McDonald was born on November 15, 1901 in Illinois and after his preliminary education he decided to make the Navy his...
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Dec 17, 20182 min read
165. Pensacolian Goes Down on USS Indianapolis 1945
Seaman 1st Class Burnice Rufus Silcox was born on April 27, 1922 in Bratt, Florida. He was the son of Rumley "Rummie" David and Katie...
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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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Oct 11, 20182 min read
130. Bluff Springs Soldier Killed in Holland 1944
Bernie Eugene Kimmons was born in Bluff Springs in Escambia County, Florida on March 17, 1918. He was the son of Jerry L. Kimmons and...
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Oct 4, 20182 min read
127. Century Soldier Killed in Normandy 1944
Sammie Ingraham was born on September 10, 1922 to the union of Sam and Callie Ingraham in Century, Escambia County, Florida. His father...
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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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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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Sep 20, 20182 min read
124. Pensacola Boys Remember Guam's War Dogs of 1944
In 1942, the Marine Corps decided to experiment with the use of dogs in combat situations. The new unit on Guam consisted of sixty dogs,...
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Sep 19, 20182 min read
123. Pensacola Marine Watches Brother's Ship Sink 1942
Pensacolian Milton Oliver Hardy was the son of Robert Morgan Hardy and Lula Belle Pyburn. Milton enlisted in the USMC prior to WWII and...
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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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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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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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Sep 4, 20181 min read
119. US Army Air Corps Officer Acquitted of Mercy Killing 1945
On March 2, 1945, an Army Air Corps Lt. Colonel was acquitted by a military court of the charge of "voluntary manslaughter" in China's...
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Aug 11, 20182 min read
114. Pensacolian Killed in Manila Battle 1945
To recapture the city of Manila in the Philippines, the US Sixth Army landed on the beaches of Lingayen Gulf on January 9, 1945. Meeting...
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Aug 6, 20182 min read
105. Pensacolian Lost in the Pacific 1944
The Munda airfield on the island of New Georgia was fought over by more Pensacolians that most people knew. Another hometown boy was Cpl....
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Jul 30, 20181 min read
104. Pensacolian Disappears Over New Guinea 1944
One of several Pensacolians killed in New Guinea was AMM 2nd Class Joseph Edward Brown Jr. of Route #4, Pensacola. He was the son of...
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Jul 23, 20182 min read
95. Pensacolian Goes Down with the USS Lexington 1942
On the morning of May 8, 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea, the USS Lexington was attacked by a Japanese airstrike. During the...
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Jul 14, 20182 min read
92. Pensacola's Rinehart Brothers Take on the Japanese Fleet
In the small town of Ridgeway, Missouri, a farmer and his wife gave birth to two sons. Frank Turner Rinehart and Ola May Sanders had nine...
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