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Tag: World War II

March 24, 2021March 25, 2021joynealkidney

Women’s History Month: Doris (Wilson) Neal, Written by her Grandson

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021joynealkidney

Guthrie Center Native Hubert Caloud, Superintendent of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France

December 7, 2020April 3, 2021joynealkidney

December 7, 1941

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020joynealkidney

Danny Wilson: October 1947 Pamphlets “Disposition of World War II Armed Forces Dead” and “American Cemeteries”

July 17, 2020July 12, 2020joynealkidney

Warren Neal: B-29 Superfortress Commander

June 1, 2020December 2, 2020joynealkidney

Uncle Bill’s WWII

May 25, 2020September 29, 2020joynealkidney

Artist Ray Sorensen’s Freedom Rocks: Iowa Memorial Day Treasures

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020joynealkidney

The USS Yorktown (CV-5) Located Three Miles Deep

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020joynealkidney

Washington Township School

December 13, 2019February 11, 2021joynealkidney

Drew’s Chocolates for Servicemen at Christmastime

October 16, 2019October 16, 2019joynealkidney

Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945

October 14, 2019January 12, 2021joynealkidney

Dallas County Heroes Listed on the Freedom Rock Storyboard

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019joynealkidney

Church Bells Heralded My Birth

June 3, 2019September 22, 2019joynealkidney

Nazi Submarine U-505, Captured the Day I was Born

March 22, 2019September 1, 2019joynealkidney

Radio Tokyo Named Dale Wilson a POW

February 25, 2019March 3, 2019joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: Cadet Training

January 30, 2019May 19, 2019joynealkidney

LST 388: A World War II Journal

November 27, 2018September 22, 2020joynealkidney

Dale Wilson’s Crew: Missing in Action

November 23, 2018January 20, 2019joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: More Combat

October 19, 2018October 2, 2020joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: 17-Mile Field, New Guinea

August 6, 2018October 2, 2020joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: Island-Hopping to Australia

July 13, 2018December 15, 2018joynealkidney

Warren Neal: B-17 Fortress Pilot

June 15, 2018May 3, 2020joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: B-25 Mitchell

May 25, 2018July 17, 2020joynealkidney

Those Crepe Paper Poppies

May 17, 2018December 15, 2018joynealkidney

Mother’s Day 1946

May 10, 2018August 19, 2019joynealkidney

The Year of the Weddings

April 30, 2018March 17, 2021joynealkidney

Spats, the Wilson Family Pup

April 16, 2018November 29, 2018joynealkidney

Delbert Wilson: Submarine Attack Teacher

March 4, 2018November 30, 2018joynealkidney

Delbert Wilson in the Atlantic–USS Achelous

February 22, 2018December 15, 2018joynealkidney

Furloughs–Wilson Brothers

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