WORLD WAR II
Veteran flew bombing missions over Europe
LUVERNE — After flying 35 missions bombing Axis strongholds across Europe, shooting at German fighter planes and surviving a saboteur’s attempt to destroy his B-24 Liberator, Ray Anderson still hates heights.
March 18, 2010
Answering the call of duty
SLAYTON — He was trained in weapons firing, unloaded ships, did guard duty, went to telegraph school, worked as a radio operator, decoded messages, was a switchboard operator and finally installed telephone lines in Japan before he was sent back home 10 months after the armistice (Victory over Japan) was announced and World War II had come to an end.
March 11, 2010
Jenkins viewed wrath of atomic bomb 
WWII veteran from Bigelow served in Navy SeabeesBIGELOW — At 39 square miles, the island of Tinian — part of the Mariana Islands in the North Pacific — is just a mere speck on a world globe. Yet, what happened on that little island, surrounded by secrecy, changed the course of battle and brought victory to the American forces in World War II.
March 04, 2010
Hansen trains WWII soldiers with eighth-grade education
HARDWICK — Don Hansen was already married with a couple of children when he received a draft notice ordering him to report for duty in World War II.
He wasn’t surprised. In fact, he’d expected the papers would arrive sooner or later.
February 25, 2010
Tending to the boys of war
Jackson’s Strube cared for soldiers on stateside Army basesJACKSON — She dedicated nearly her entire adult life to caring for the ill and the injured, but perhaps nothing had a more profound impact on her than the years she tended to our nation’s men in uniform — the broken, the battered boys of war.
February 11, 2010
WWII veteran trained as torpedo gunner
SLAYTON — The year was 1943. Jim Meaden was in his senior year of high school at Slayton and working alongside his dad, Otto, in the family-owned Meaden Machine Works, when his draft notice arrived in the mail. He was told he would need to report for duty soon after graduation, but it wasn’t until he was interviewed by specialists at boot camp that he was assigned to the U.S. Navy.
February 04, 2010
Ketterling fought Japanese in Philippines
Luverne man earned Purple Heart in hand grenade explosionLUVERNE — Gilbert Ketterling still has the scars on his legs and a few marks on his back to show where shrapnel scattered and pierced his body 66 years ago.
January 21, 2010
Column: Remembering two Worthington vets who survived World War II
WORTHINGTON — Daily Globe readers are applauding Julie Buntjer’s interviews with World War II veterans from the local area. I hear people talking about the stories.
January 16, 2010
Pipestone man served in Africa during World War II
Hubner shares tale of booby-trapped guns and Axis SallyPIPESTONE — With the exception of his 42 months in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, 90-year-old Loren Hubner has spent his entire life within a quarter-mile stretch of farmland on the northwest side of Pipestone.
January 14, 2010
Demjanjuk trial hears of Nazi guards' use at camps
MUNICH, Germany — Former Soviet prisoners of war were trained by the Nazis as guards and used regularly in the Germans' machinery of mass murder, a historian testified today at the trial of John Demjanjuk.
By Geir Moulson, Associated Press , January 13, 2010
Torpedo attack nets World War II vet a Purple Heart
SLAYTON — When Ray Goergen was drafted into the U.S. Army on Feb. 13, 1942, the military already knew how best to use the Granville, Iowa, native’s talents.
January 07, 2010
Radio show aims to help Southwest Honor Flight
LUVERNE — One by one, a handful of Rock County veterans bonded by their common service in World War II shared their stories. Some told of love found while on furlough from active duty, others recalled horrors seen while liberating concentration camps.
December 31, 2009
Dekker was ‘Jack of all trades’ in WWII
Local veteran eager to take part in Southwest Honor FlightWORTHINGTON — At the age of 88, Worthington’s Jake Dekker said things happened during his tour of duty throughout Europe in World War II that can be forgotten, but the two things he most wants to forget remain etched in his senses today — the sight and the smell of death.
December 31, 2009
How to Sponsor, Donate, or Apply for Honor Flight Southwest Minnesota
To sponsor a veteran, make a donation, or request an application for a World War II veteran to attend Honor Flight Southwest Minnesota...By DAILY GLOBE , December 29, 2009
Rock County veteran eager to see World War II memorial
LUVERNE — Johnny Johnson is fondly referred to as a triple-decker by some of the staff at the Royal C. Johnson Veterans Administration Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. The nickname refers to the collection of medals Johnson earned while serving in World War II — the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Navy Commendation.
By Julie Buntjer , December 24, 2009
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1945: Write Your Own Treaty
Americans were encouraged in 1945 to write their own peace treaties, according to this March 1945 editorial.
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1945: Food Will Win the War
Boote's Hatcheries (extra chicks every Tuesday and Friday) put this ad in the March 1945 Daily Globe.
It reminds me of a long interview I h
1945: Bad Photoshopping Before Photoshop
I'm pretty sure this 1945 Pillsbury Mills ad features at least two actual pictures, and possibly more.
For one thing, the boy's head does not ap
1945: Salvage Need Is Real
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1945: Red Cross Box Appreciated
In 1945, a Worthington woman received a gracious thanks for a Red Cross box she had prepared for a soldier's family.
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1945: Lakefield Soldier Wins Bronze Star
Kenneth Eder of Lakefield won a bronze star in 1945 for heroic achievement in action, because "his coolness and calm leadership resulted i
1945: Women, You Are Urgently Needed!
Women were urgently needed for poultry processing in 1945 at the Worthington Creamery and Produce Company. It was war work.
1945: Nobles County Soldiers Liberate Luzon
A number of Worthington area boys were involved in the Battle of Luzon in January 1945, although not much information was released at the time.
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