A "Rich" Life – Flirting with Death
By his own reckoning, WWII veteran James “Troy” Rich “nearly died 15 times – more lives than a cat.” He “was always a bit of a...
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- Sep 12, 2019
- 4 min
“Hard to turn off the Switch”
Eugene Roberts had seen the worst of war. He spent the last few months of WWII in the Pacific. One of hundreds of young men plucked from...
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- Sep 3, 2019
- 4 min
A "Rich" Life – Flirting with Death
By his own reckoning, WWII veteran James “Troy” Rich “nearly died 15 times – more lives than a cat.” He “was always a bit of a...
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- Aug 18, 2019
- 3 min
Follow Your Dreams – Veteran George Bradley
“They put a sack over my head and marched me to a cell. That was a scary moment.” While he was not really captured by the enemy, for...
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- Aug 7, 2019
- 3 min
“The Coldest Winter I Ever Saw”
For 97 year old Eldie Scheffel, the time he spent on the Aleutian Islands was the coldest he’d ever been before or since. He was part of...
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- Aug 2, 2019
- 3 min
Helping to Feed the Army
As the old idiom goes, “An Army marches on its stomach.” This oft repeated saying’s roots go as far back as Frederick the Great and...
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- Jul 25, 2019
- 4 min
Vietnam Veteran Doug Foster and the Healing Wall
Doug Foster had heard about the Texas South Plains Honor Flight from some veterans in Snyder who had gone on the flight. Doug, a Vietnam...
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- Jul 18, 2019
- 3 min
Living Intentionally
Opal Roberts knows the importance of apparel. She remembers a uniform she wore that was made of “extremely high maintenance fabric”....
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- Jul 2, 2019
- 3 min
Bill Northcut –Citizen Soldier
Bio: Born: 2-18-1933 in Emory, TX. Married Billie Frances Northcut June 1952. Children: Melinda, Brenda and William. Bill Northcut...
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- Jun 27, 2019
- 3 min
WWII Veteran George Lewis — Occupied Germany
Rubble and destruction in Germany were everywhere the fall of 1945, and George Lewis saw it up close. He was a corporal and squad leader...
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- Jun 27, 2019
- 3 min
Alvira Agee: "I Can Do That"
After a visit with 90-year-old Alvira Agee, it’s easy to see that she could do anything she put her mind to. Alvira developed a “can do”...
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- Jun 5, 2019
- 2 min
Following His Brothers
Truett Tyler grew up on a farm near O’Donnell, Texas, and the youngest of four brothers. One of his brothers died in 1932 at age 7....
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- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
WWII Veteran James Braxton - A Lifetime of Music
James Braxton grew up loving music. After graduation from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, James attempted to follow...
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- May 15, 2019
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Dr. Bernhard T. Mittemeyer – A Lifetime of Service to His Adopted Country
Bernhard was born Oct. 30, 1930 in Paramaribo, Surinam, South America. His parents Jan and Hanna were there as missionaries from Holland....
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- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
PHIL CRENSHAW FOUND HIS CALLING
As told to Katherine McLamore and edited by C. Wheat When American Sniper Chris Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, recently came to Lubbock, WWII...
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- Apr 10, 2019
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Dr. Ted Hartman – Sherman Tank Driver and Orthopedic Surgeon
Dr. J. Ted Hartman was born in Louisiana. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to Ames, Iowa. He was the last of three siblings. His...
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- Mar 26, 2019
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Dr. Robert and Iris Anderson: Battling on Two Fronts
Robert Anderson and his future wife Iris saw how devastating a World War can be, up close. For Bob, it was surviving the siege on...
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- Mar 19, 2019
- 3 min
WWII Seabee M.T. Allen - "Quonset Hut" Expert
Marion T. Allen (known as M.T.), now 97 years young, was drafted and joined the Navy Seabees on April 20th, 1943. He had “already...
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- Mar 11, 2019
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Roger Haberer – Normandy, Days after the Invasion
Roger Haberer clearly remembers the day he was picked with a group of men to be dropped off at Normandy, France. They arrived on June...
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- Feb 18, 2019
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Bob Hale – WWII Navy “Boat Driver” to Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Navy Coxswain Bob Hale, all of 18 years old, didn’t know it at the time, but he was headed into the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War....
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"From Texas South Plains War Stories: Interviews with Veterans from World War II to Afghanistan © 2021 Larry A. Williams and Katherine McLamore by permission of McFarland."
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