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The War Years.... 1941-1945 |
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This first section is from the Feb. 10,2000 Clay County Courier Paper |
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1941
United States declares war on Axis powers, Germany and Italy, Dec.11th. These two nations declared was against the United States, Wednesday.
The United States is at war with Japan. Several hundred American lives have been lost in a surprise attack on us in the Pacific. Events have moved so swiftly since Sunday, December 7, that is difficult to realize the gravity of the situation. American cities have been blacked-out following air raid threats, which prove that it can happen here.
It is understood that the War Department will ask Congress for expansion of selective service age limits to include men from 18 to 44 years. This will reach a large number of World War veterans, many of whom was service in France. These old vets may be a little down in the back and minus a few teeth, but they can still shoot straight. |
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Eight Clay County men called by draft board: They are ordered to report at Piggot on Dec. 26: Alfred Eugene McMullen, Cloyce Leslie Stacy, James Elmer Banks, Raymond Alfred Purdom, Ralph Bryan Montgomery, Rufus Lee Parks, Willard Athel Province and Leroy Hunt. |
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USS Arizona |
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Only 18 days since the savage attack on Hawaii, and the United States Army and Navy have marked up a glowing record of victories and heroism in the Pacific. Many enemy ships have been sunk. The true spirit of American courage is shown by a handful of Marines on Wake and Midway Islands and those Navy fliers who died this week while sinking Jap battleships and transports in the Pacific. When Japanese planes bombed Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, when they struck at military bases and air fields in the Phillipines, the people of the United States became one. There is no dissention. Party lines were wiped out in Congress. Labor and industry dropped their differences and doubled production. |
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American lives have been lost in the Pacific. These lives will be avenged through uninterrupted production on the industry front.
Industry will build two battleships for every one that sinks!
We will match every enemy bomb with a dozen.
It will blacken the skies with planes to replace the ones shot down.
Industry's production in the great job of offense will be limited only by human endurance of the men who man and manage its facilities.
We Americans have not always seen eye to eye among ourselves. But, as always, aggression from without fuses our family differences in unity of purpose. The enemies of our country will find us one unbreakable phalanx in which class, creed, and petty differences are forgotten. |
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USS Shaw Dec.7,1941 attack on Pearl Harbor |
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Wherever you go it is war talk, but we have just got to trust in God and do our part. That's all we can do. (Reyno by Mrs. D.M Odom) |
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More to Come!!! |
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