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Museum exhibit examines changing role of women during WWII . . . 17 Bomber crew buried together . . . 22
Final salute for Pearl Harbor vet . . . 23 Influential photographer dies . . . 25
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weeks in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, before moving into the desert. Kirgis said when Staff Writer they stayed in the desert, they were jgurney@advertiser-tribune.com doing convoy support until the ground We were all weighed down with all this equipment getting war started in March 1991. He said conA veteran who spent four years in the voy support was almost like working for onto this plane and the stewardesses all said it was their Army said he got to see “a lot of differthe Ohio State Highway Patrol. For exent things” during his time in the Persian maiden flight and they had never had (people) getting on ample, if a truck was pulled off to the Gulf. side of the road, Kirgis said his unit Wendell Kirgis, a 1988 graduate of would check to make sure the driver was Seneca East High School, said that at the with their guns before.” OK, that his unit knew where he was and time, he wanted to be a police officer, so Wendell Kirgis, recalling flight to Persian Gulf that he had food, water and was safe. he joined the military police and served “With the National Guard units and in the 66th MP Company. After graduatPakistani truck drivers, they had thouing that May, he joined the Army in Ausands of truck drivers over there and gust and he stayed until 1992, spending “Every third man had a belt-fed mamilitary police, his unit acted as law enevery time one would break down, they about six months in the Persian Gulf. chine gun and every man had an M16 forcement for the base. weren’t going to stop the whole convoy Kirgis said he spent four months in and everyone had a .45, bayonet. ...,” Kirgis then did a two-year tour in training at Fort McClellan in Alabama. Germany, which is when his unit was ac- Kurgis said. “We were all weighed down for them,” he said. “We would just drive “It wasn’t as bad as it was in the with all this equipment getting onto this up and down the roads and make sure tivated to go to the Persian Gulf. They movies,” he said. plane and the stewardesses all said it was that those guys were OK.” were told the government was getting Kirgis’ unit moved into Iraq after the During the ’80s, Kirgis said, there still involved in it, after Kuwait was invaded their maiden flight and they had never ground war started and they ended up were a lot of Vietnam War veteran had (people) getting on with their guns in August. handling prisoners of war. After the end cadres, men who ran training, as opposed before.” “We started doing a lot of convoy of the war, his unit also helped set up a to the drill sergeant who ran the day-toHe said they then spent a couple of work, going up to the shipyards and day activities. Because this was prior to working security for the shipyards bethe war on terror, he said the main focus cause they were loading up container was on Russia and North Korea. ships full of supplies to run them,” Kir“We were taught, it was always how gis said. we’re going to support big armor moveOnce they were told they were on the ment and the engineers and the infantry list to go, he said, they spent all their and how we would support them, like in time getting ready, packing supplies and a massive battle in Europe,” Kirgis said. checking equipment for several weeks. “That was what it was all about coming They were given a day’s notice of when off of the ’80s, Reagan and the Cold War they were to leave and spent the time at and all that, so it was a different type of the motor pool checking supplies and Honoring All training.” waiting to load up and go, Kirgis said. He said for a year and a half, he was He said a unique thing about it was Who Have Served at Fort Hunter Liggett in California, that after they went to Rhein-Main Air which served as a training base for other Base, they flew on Hawaiian Air, which Heidelberg University is proud units. Personnel from other countries was a civilian liner with civilian flight to support all veterans and went there to train as well. Kirgis said as attendants and everybody was loaded. first responders.
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huge perimeter around refugee camps with the 66th MP guarding half and the French army guarding the other half. “We never got to actually do our assigned job, so we ended up filling in to help out other MP units that were doing their assigned jobs. That’s how we ended up guarding the POWs,” he said. One reason for this was because of the United States’ use of “blitzkrieg,” which requires mobility — something Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s forces didn’t have, Kirgis said. He said his unit’s goal was to follow the front line as it moved forward, and the front line’s goal was to not slow down if it happened to come across a pocket of resistance. “They would leave just enough unit there to keep them from breaking loose and then we were going to come in to backfill that unit. … Instead of stopping the whole front line, they were going to go around it and surround it and pulverize it from the air at their leisure, but they were going to keep the front line moving,” Kirgis said. “What happened was, there was no resistance. (The Iraqis) tried to fight, but
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get them that fast and that sudden. They weren’t expecting thousands of guys to surrender all at once.” He discussed the “Highway of Death” in Kuwait, which he said was “bad,” and said everything was burnt up and there was “billions of dollars’ worth of destruction.” Kirgis said engineers had been there and had cleared a path through all of the vehicles and knocked them off to the sides. “As we were driving (our Humvee) down there, I looked down on the road and there was an RPG (launcher) and right beside it was the rounds. People just abandoned them. … It’s not really cool seeing those unexploded RPG rounds laying there off the road,” he said. On the last day of the shooting war, around 2 a.m., Kirgis’ unit was driving on the highway and pulled up on a line of tanks on its way to Safwan. Kirgis said there, in the middle of the desert, was when they first saw the oil well fires. “You could hold up your clipboard (sideways) and still see (the oil well fires) and they were a couple miles away,” he said. At sunrise, the group had to take six Iraqis to a POW camp, where it set up at an abandoned radio station. This is when the group went to Safwan to run security they kept getting knocked down and they to American forces with a picture next to middle and razor wire around the during the peace talks, Kirgis said. perimeter. He said if squads were capit showing them being fed. never really set up a hard defense to “That lasted about an afternoon. Basi“(The U.S.) had them and we dropped tured, their squad leaders still were in where we couldn’t just flow over them,” cally, the Iraqis went in there and surrencharge of their own personnel and they them for the Iraqis. We were dropping he added. “So, we never just set up and handled their own day-to-day operations. dered. The negotiators for the Iraqis were them on them from the air so that these did what we were supposed to do.” told it wasn’t a negotiation and we were The Saudi Arabians fed them and the guys could see these things,” he said. Kirgis added that the United States just there for them to sign the papers … United States guarded the perimeter. Kirgis said there were thousands of had pamphlets that depicted tanks burnand they surrendered,” he said. “They weren’t really 100-percent Iraqi fighters who gave up, adding that ing with men inside of them and others His unit then moved to Hafar Already to handle that many POWs,” Kirthe POW camps were temporary setups next to them running away while some consisting of dirt berms with tents in the gis said. “They didn’t figure they would Batin, which is when they drove by the pamphlets showed people surrendering
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oil wells and got into a small airbase area were sent with a United Nations mandate and that wasn’t one of the goals. on the border of Kuwait and Iraq where they camped for a few days. “Our goal was to reduce (Saddam’s) military to where it wouldn’t be a threat “That was when we crossed that line because, at the time, he had a huge into the black,” he said of the oil well fires. “Nearest I can describe it, it was a army,” Kirgis said. “In the First Persian Gulf, we trashed all of his equipment.” clear to cloudy thunderstorm day but it was all smoke and it wasn’t like you This also accounted for the lack of were going to cough and hack. But you rebuilding after the war, because once could smell it, you knew it was there and his military was reduced and Saddam it made your skin feel greasy.” was out of Kuwait, the U.N. mandate was over, he said. He said that while people may question why Saddam wasn’t “taken “That’s why they had nuclear out” during the first Persian Gulf War, inspections and the no-fly zone. It was the reason he wasn’t was because troops (to make it so) he wasn’t allowed to put a
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plane up to start fighting again. That was our way of keeping him in a bottle,” Kirgis said. After spending his remaining time in the Persian Gulf guarding refugee camps, he said, he went back to Germany and back to his normal duties for another year and then got out of the service. Kirgis said overall, he enjoyed his time in the service. “Yeah, I did enjoy it. I complained the whole time I was there, but realistically, it was actually pretty good. I got to see and do stuff when I was young that a lot of people will never get to see or do.” Kirgis said after coming home and working job to job for about a year, he became a corrections officer at Mansfield Correctional Institution, where he has worked for 24 years. He said his experience helped prepare him for the job and that going to it when he was still young helped, as far as being flexible, which was also the biggest thing he learned from his time in the Army. “(It taught me) to stay flexible. It’s good to be rigid and expect things to work, but if something goes out of order you can’t just melt,” Kirgis said. “If you get a flat tire on the way home, you can’t spend the rest of the day crying. You got to fix it and move on.”
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In the undated photo above provided by family member Susan Lawrence, the Pieper children (from left) MaryAnn, Leona, Ivona, twins Ludwig and Julius and Fred stand outside the family home in Nebraska. In the undated photo at left provided by Lawrence, twin brothers Julius Pieper (left) and Ludwig Pieper pose in their U.S. Navy uniforms.
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forms carried the flag-draped metal coffin bearing the remains of Julius to its final Associated Press resting place, at the side of Ludwig Julius COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Wilhelm “Louie” Pieper at the Normandy For decades, he was known only as Un- American Cemetery and Memorial. known X-9352 at a World War II AmeriThe two 19-year-olds from Esmond, can cemetery in Belgium where he was South Dakota, died together June 19, interred. 1944, when their huge flat-bottom ship Two weeks ago, Julius Heinrich Otto hit an underwater mine as it tried to ap“Henry” Pieper, his identity recovered, proach Utah Beach, 13 days after the Dwas laid to rest beside his twin brother in Day landings. Normandy, 74 years after the two Navy While Louie’s body was soon found, men died together when their ship shatidentified and laid to rest, his brother’s tered while trying to reach the bloodremains were only recovered in 1961 by soaked D-Day beaches. French salvage divers and not identified Six Navy officers in crisp white uniuntil 2017.
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A lone bugler played taps as the casket was lowered in an end-of-day military ceremony attended by a half-dozen family members, closing a circle of loss. Each laid a red rose on the casket and two scattered American soil over it. The Pieper twins, both radiomen second class, are the 45th pair of brothers at the cemetery, three of them memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery. But the Piepers are the only set of twins among the more than 9,380 graves, according to the American Battle Monuments Commission. The cemetery, an immaculate field of crosses and Stars of David, overlooks the English Channel and Omaha Beach, the bloodiest of the Normandy landing beaches of Operation Overlord, the first step in breaching Hitler’s stranglehold on France and Europe. “They are finally together again, side by side, where they should be,” said their niece, Susan Lawrence, 56, of Sacramento, California. “They were always together. They were the best of friends,” Lawrence said. “Mom told me a story one time when one of the twins had gotten hurt on the job and the other twin had gotten hurt on the job, same day and almost the same time.” The story of how the twins died and were being reunited reflects the daily courage of troops on a mission to save the world from the Nazis and the tenacity of today’s military to ensure that no soldier goes unaccounted for. The Pieper twins, born of German immigrant parents, worked together for Burlington Railroad and enlisted together in the Navy. Both were radio operators and both were on the same unwieldy flat-bottom boat, Landing Ship Tank Number 523 (LST-523), making the Channel crossing from Falmouth,
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School children walk by the grave of 13 men from the Navy ship LST-523 who were never identified by name and are now buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery June 15 in Neupre, Belgium.
England, to Utah Beach 13 days after the June 6 D-Day landings. The LST-523 mission was to deliver supplies at the Normandy beachhead and remove the wounded. It never got there. The vessel struck an underwater mine and sank off the coast. Of the 145 Navy crew members, 117 were found perished. Survivors’ accounts speak of a major storm on the Channel with pitched waves that tossed the boat mercilessly before the explosion that shattered the vessel. Louie’s body was laid to rest in what now is the Normandy American Cemetery. But the remains of Julius were only recovered in 1961 by French divers who found them in the vessel’s radio room. He was interred as an “Unknown” at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Neuville, Belgium, also devoted to the fallen of World War II, in the region that saw the bloody Battle of the Bulge.
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Julius’ remains might have stayed among those of 13 other troops from the doomed LST-523 still resting unidentified at the Ardennes cemetery. But in 2017, a U.S. agency that tracks missing combatants using witness accounts and
DNA testing identified him. Lawrence, the niece, said the brothers successfully had made the trip across the English Channel on D-Day itself, and “they had written my grandparents a letter saying, do not worry about us we are together.” “My grandparents received that letter after they got word that they (their sons) had passed away,” she said. The Pieper family asked that Louie’s grave in Normandy be relocated to make room for his twin brother at his side. The last time the United States buried a soldier who fought in World War II was in 2005, at the Ardennes American Cemetery, according to the American Battle Monuments Commission. Elaine Ganley in Paris contributed to this report.
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U.S. Navy personnel carry the casket of World War II U.S. Navy sailor Julius Pieper during a reburial service June 19 at the Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-surMer, France, before folding the flag and handing over the flag to family member Linda Suitor. At left, Suitor (second from left) and Susan Lawrence console each other during the service.
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As the Fourth of July approaches, we take the time to honor those fallen heroes and those still with us to share their stories. Two of those stories involve residents from Seneca House, William E. Fruth and Paul Krupp. And the two veterans who want the community of Tiffin and surrounding areas to hear their stories.
William Fruth
Fruth was born in Fostoria and graduated from Fostoria Junior/Senior High School in 1966. In 1967, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. During that time — three years — Fruth spent two tours in Vietnam. Fruth was a pilot and flew 1,000 combat hours providing support to troops below. “I lost a lot of friends,” Fruth said. “But I would do it all over again.” Fruth said after returning to the States, it took a long time to tell his story. What made him want to share his experiences were school-aged children, he said. “It took a long time to get it out,” Fruth said. “They needed to know the truth.” Fruth said he saw a lot over in Vietnam.
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grandsons. “It’s going to be a tough battle,” he said.
I lost a lot of friends. Paul Krupp But I would do it all Krupp was born on a farm south of Bellevue. With an over again.” eighth-grade education, Krupp worked to convince his parents William Fruth, to let him enlist in the Navy durWorld War II. U.S. Army, ingKrupp’s parents wanted him to stay and work farm, Vietnam War but Krupp wantedontothe go with all
his friends. Krupp spent two and a half “I saw soldiers shredded all years in service, during which to hell,” Fruth said. While flying, Fruth’s craft at he took part in the Normandy invasion. times had to become a military “It was a learning experiambulance, where he witnessed ence,” Krupp said. “It was the other soldiers carrying their guts first time I was away from and eventually dying. home. I was just a punk kid at On the second tour, Fruth 17 years old.” said, he was told to teach new “I wanted to serve my counrecruits what it was like to be a try,” he said. soldier. Krupp’s main job on the ship “I wasn’t going to teach them was in the kitchen. how to get killed,” Fruth said. Fruth spent time talking about his uncle who served in World War II, Dilbert Fruth. “I was so proud of him,” It was the first time I Fruth said. “He was rough around the edges.” was away from home. I In 2010, Fruth retired from Whirlpool after 25 years, and in was just a punk kid at 2013, Fruth said he was diagnosed with mesothelioma and 17 years old.” had to have a lung removed. He is working hard to get back to Paul Krupp, his family and his wife of 40 U.S. Navy, years, Sue Fruth. Fruth also has two sons and a daughter and World War II stepdaughter, along with six
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Krupp was in a 322-foot flatbottom boat when he landed on the beach during the D-Day invasion. A German plan flew over and bombed the boat, which caused it to go into dry dock after taking on five feet of water. Once they rushed the shore, Krupp said there were bullets flying everywhere.
Krupp said his troops would capture soldiers and take them back to England. In doing so, they had to take all the items the prisoners had on them. Krupp said he is proud they won. “There are no Nazi or Hitler signs,” he said. “It was a terrible waste of human life. It was a sad thing.”
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World War II exhibit focuses on women BY SARAH BETANCOURT Associated Press
NATICK, Mass. — The terrors of World War II impacted most of the world’s women, on the home and battlefronts. A new exhibition at the International Museum of World War II in Natick, Massachusetts, highlights just that — the important and sometimes unconventional roles women took on during the war. “It’s about the human story,” founder Kenneth Rendell explains. “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase and honor women’s service to the war effort.” “Women in WWII: On the Home Fronts and the Battlefronts” is composed of more than 100 artifacts from the U.S., Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, France and Great Britain. For many women, wartime was about more than rationing food for their families. In the Soviet Union, 400,000 women drafted as “Red Army girls” filled roles as doctors and even snipers. One photograph shows paranurses jumping out of a plane into a war zone, strapped with medical supplies to save wounded soldiers. Kathryn Bernheim became one of 27 American women chosen by the Army Air Force in 1942 to ferry planes in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Service program. As a civilian with more than 1,000 hours of flight experience, Bernheim flew aircraft such as the P-47
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A World War II-era black-and-white photograph of French student Simone Billard is attached to a fake identity card created by the French Resistance in an exhibit called “Women in WWII: On the Home Fronts and the Battlefronts” May 21 at The International Museum of World War II, in Natick, Mass. Billard used a homemade radio to listen to the British Broadcasting Corp. during the war, which was an offense in Nazi-occupied France that could incur severe punishment.
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Not all women had such dramatic roles, but millions across the U.S. served as postal workers, trash collectors and manufacturers, roles previously occupied by men. A 1945 photograph shows 24-year-old Fern Corbett “pinch-hitting as a window washer” 10 floors above a Minneapolis street — a far cry from her original job as the company’s stenographer.
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The women worked at centers that provided free health care to unmarried mothers often impregnated by SS officers. Many children were adopted by other SS members and their families. The philosophy of women dedicating their bodies and minds to the Third Reich is even more apparent in three swastika-emblazoned crosses. Women who bore four to five children received a bronze cross; six to seven a silver. Those who birthed eight or more children received a golden cross from Adolf Hitler. “The Nazis wanted women to be wives and mothers. You see photos of women doing outdoor tasks in great physical
shape — this was not so they could fight, but so they could bear children,” says Sue Wilkins, the museum’s education director. Across the English Channel, more than 640,000 British women served in auxiliary services, performing noncombat work such as handling massive searchlights to spot enemy aircraft intent on bombing British cities. Photos of everyday women working in the Royal Naval Service are starkly contrasted with a photo of then-Princess Elizabeth wearing the uniform of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and working under the hood of a car. The exhibition is on display through Oct. 7.
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A World War II British ration card (right) rests on a flyer that shows a woman operating machinery juxtaposed with a depiction of a family doing yard work The International World War II Museum.
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5 members of World War II bomber crew buried together BOSTON (AP) — Five crewmembers from a B-17 bomber shot down during a mission over Germany in World War II were buried together at Arlington National Cemetery last week. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said the men were scheduled to be buried with full military honors Wednesday. They were identified as Tech. Sgt. John Brady, of Taunton, Massachusetts; Tech. Sgt. Allen Chandler Jr., of Fletcher, Oklahoma; 1st Lt. John Liekhus, of Anaheim, California; Staff Sgt. Robert Shoemaker, of Takoma Park, Maryland; and Staff Sgt. Bobby Younger, of McKinney, Texas. They were members of a nine-man crew of the B-17 shot down near Barby, Germany Nov. 2, 1944. Three survived and were captured. One was killed and identified in 1945. The remains of the five were recovered in 2015 and 2016.
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This combination of undated photos released June 2, by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency shows five U.S. Army Air Forces airmen, members of a B-17 bomber crew, who were shot down in 1944 during a mission over Germany in World War II. They are (from left) Tech. Sgt. John F. Brady, of Taunton, Mass.; Tech. Sgt. Allen A. Chandler Jr., of Fletcher, Okla.; 1st Lt. John H. Liekhus, of Anaheim, Calif.; Staff Sgt. Robert O. Shoemaker, of Tacoma Park, Md.; and Staff Sgt. Bobby J. Younger, of McKinney, Texas.
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Ray Emory survived the early morning attack on Pearl Harbor that killed nearly 2,400 servicemen in a shower of bombs and explosions nearly 80 years ago. The 97-year-old never forgot those who died that day, spending the past few decades doggedly pushing for the remains of those buried as unknowns to be identified and returned to their families.
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Clutching a walker and stepping ten- marked with the name of their battleship. tatively, Emory returned to Pearl Harbor In 2003, the military agreed to dig up for one last visit before he leaves his a casket that Emory was convinced, after Hawaii home to live in Boise, Idaho, meticulously studying records, included with his son. the remains of multiple USS Oklahoma He expected to stop at the pier where servicemen. Emory was right, and five his ship, the USS Honolulu, was moored sailors were identified. Dec. 7, 1941, and stay for three or four It helped lay the foundation for the minutes and then go home. Pentagon’s decision more than a decade later to exhume and attempt to identify Instead, more than 500 sailors stood all 388 sailors and Marines from the side-by-side on ships and piers to surprise him. They greeted him with salutes Oklahoma who had been buried as unknowns in a national cemetery in Honas he arrived on a golf cart and shouted olulu. cheers of “Hip, Hip, Hooray!” Since those 2015 exhumations, 138 Lt. Ryan Donohue, chief engineer on sailors from the USS O’Kane, said Oklahoma have it was important for been identified. sailors to remember About 77 have those who sacribeen reburied, ficed Dec. 7. “I think it’s im- I think it’s important that we many in their hometowns, bringportant that we know where we come from ing closure to famknow where we ilies across the come from — the — the different events that country. different events that AP FILE PHOTO “Ray, you’re transpired, about transpired, about how we the man that did it. The USS Honolulu, a 9,650-ton Brooklyn-class light cruiser built at the New York Navy Yard, how we have our There’s nobody freedom today,” he have our freedom today.” is commissioned June 15, 1938, in New York City. else. If it wasn’t said. Lt. Ryan Donohue, for you, it would Emory took the have never been microphone during chief engineer, done,” Jim Taylor, a ceremony in his the Navy’s liaison honor and recited USS O’Kane to Pearl Harbor the names of survivors, told dozens of ships that Emory during the brief ceremony Tueswere in Pearl Harbor the day of the atday at the USS Honolulu’s old pier. tack. Taylor predicted Emory would return “I’m glad I came and I’ll never forget to his research on unknowns once he’s in it,” Emory told reporters afterward. Idaho. Emory is leaving Hawaii because his “He’ll do this until the day he joins wife died about a month ago and he his wife in heaven,” Taylor said. doesn’t have family in the islands. He Some of the remains, especially those plans to go fishing in Idaho. burned to ash, will never be identified. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, But the military aims to put names with Emory managed to fire a few rounds at 80 percent of the Oklahoma servicemen the airplanes that dropped the torpedoes. who were dug up in 2015. He still has an empty bullet casing that Altogether, the Pearl Harbor attack fell to his ship deck. killed nearly 2,400 U.S. servicemen. The In 2012, the Navy and National Park Oklahoma lost 429 men after being hit Service recognized Emory for his work by at least nine torpedoes. with the military and Department of VetPOET extends a sincere thank you to It was the second-largest number of erans Affairs to honor and remember dead from one vessel. The USS Arizona all of our veterans. Your service and Pearl Harbor’s dead. lost 1,177 sailors and Marines. Most of sacrifice has not gone unnoticed. Bureaucrats didn’t welcome his efthose killed on the Arizona remain enforts, at least not initially. Emory says tombed in the sunken hull of the battlethey politely told him to “‘go you-know- ship. where.’” It didn’t deter him. The Pentagon has also exhumed the First, thanks to legislation sponsored remains of 35 servicemen from the USS POET.COM/Fostoria by the late U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink of West Virginia from Honolulu’s National Hawaii, he managed to get gravestones Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. None for unknowns from the USS Arizona have been identified so far.
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World War II photographer David Douglas Duncan dies
PARIS (AP) — David Douglas Duncan, who helped change the role of war photography by exposing the anguish of soldiers in Korea and Vietnam, has died at age 102. Duncan died in a French hospital June 7 from complications from a lung infection, according to longtime friend JeanFrancois Leroy, director of the Visa pour l’Image photography festival. A close friend of Picasso, Duncan used his photos to chronicle the artist’s life and work. Duncan’s images of the 1968 Democratic and Republican conventions and how they represented America were also widely celebrated. Yet Duncan’s most influential work was as a combat photographer. Instead of portraying soldiers as heroes, he portrayed them as ordinary humans, tormented or courageous on the battlefield, exhausted or fearful behind the scenes. “He never showed soldiers as heroes, but as soldiers revolted by the stupidities of war. People who suffer, people who are exhausted and uncomprehending of what they are doing there,” Leroy told The Associated Press. Duncan was a walking memoir of the wars in Vietnam and Korea, able to cite the first and last names and ranks of soldiers he photographed even 60 years later. Duncan’s archive is at the University of Texas at Austin. Leroy said that when he was 15, Duncan’s books inspired him become a pho-
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He never showed soldiers as heroes, but as soldiers revolted by the stupidities of war. People who suffer, people who are exhausted and uncomprehending of what they are doing there.” Jean-Francois Leroy, director of the Visa pour l’Image photography festival tographer. They were friends for 30 years, and Leroy remembers Duncan most for his indefatigable energy. “He always had two or three ideas every minute,” and used to phone once a week to talk about Leroy’s exhibition plans. “I will miss his calls.”
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Photographer David Douglas Duncan holds an autographed copy of his book "Picasso and Lump" up to a lamp to dry the ink May 15, 2006, at his home near Cannes, southern France.
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KIDRON (AP) — In 1961, during his second year of college, Daniel Gerber felt he had a calling. Raised on a family farm east of Kidron, the Dalton High School graduate looked to his Mennonite faith. He believed it was time to serve God in the church’s volunteer service. The Mennonite Central Committee in 1951 had established the Pax Program. Church members believe war is against God’s teachings and they created a program that allowed church members to serve their country as conscientious objectors and help others. Gerber’s older brothers, David and Jim, had served by working at medical facilities in the United States. Daniel Gerber was willing to take an assignment overseas. The Mennonite church loaned Gerber to the Christian and Missionary Alliance, which helped at hospitals, schools and churches worldwide. Gerber boarded a freighter in August 1961 for a monthlong sea journey to Vietnam. A man of peace, he was going to a war-torn country. He never returned. “We’ll see him in heaven,” Barb Steiner, Gerber’s sister, said of her brother. Gerber’s siblings long ago accepted he died, although his death never has been confirmed. There are no details. The family doesn’t know a date. They don’t know if Daniel died because of illness or was killed by his captors. “We don’t know anything official, what happened to them or when,” said Steiner, who lives near Dalton. Gerber volunteered for three years of service as a maintenance man for a Christian and Missionary Alliance medical center outside the city of Ban Me Thuot in Vietnam’s central highlands. He also taught locals about farming. He was one of three people abducted from the center, which treated people suffering from leprosy. Also taken were Archie Mitchell, a long-time missionary with the Alliance who had been in Vietnam with his wife and children since 1948, and Dr. Eleanor A. Vietti, who treated patients. Viet Cong soldiers also took medical supplies and a truck. Left behind to later tell the story were
But after two years of college, Daniel believed he had a calling to voluntary service, according to an article in a 1978 edition of The Ohio Evangel, a Mennonite church publication. He applied to the church’s Pax Program, following brothers David and Jim. Later his younger brother, Norm, would serve in the states with Pax, while the youngest brother Aldis served in Mexico, where he married and still lives. Although Ban Me Thuot was in a region infiltrated by Viet Cong, which opposed the government in Saigon, the volunteers at the medical center believed they were safe. They were in the country Mitchell’s family and several nurses, in- reading. The Gerber family read and to help others and believed they would studied the Bible as part of their daily cluding Ruth Wilting, a Cleveland be left alone. woman. During his eight months in Viet- Mennonite faith. Civil war had been raging for years in After graduating high school in 1958, nam, Gerber and Wilting had fallen in Gerber worked for a year on a neighbor’s Vietnam. In 1961 and 1962, U.S. forces love and were planning to marry. Among thousands sent to facilities the farm to earn money for college. He spent were helping the South Vietnamese government combat Viet Cong rebels who one year at Goshen College in Indiana, Alliance operates around the world, were supported by North Vietnam. The then transferred to Hesston College in more than 20 have been martyred, but U.S. had troops in the country advising Gerber and the others taken are the only Kansas. South Vietnamese forces and transportthree volunteers classified as missing, said Kristian Rollins, an archivist for the Alliance. It’s been 56 years with no official report. “They’re still technically missing,” Rollins said. When the Vietnam War ended, roughly 2,500 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines were listed as missing in action, as well as more than 40 civilians who were in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos for business or working as missionaries and journalists. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, in a May 31 report, lists slightly less than 1,600 individuals as unaccounted, with 31 civilians on the list. Daniel Gerber was the third of six children born to Nathan and Elvina Gerber. The couple raised their children on a 73-acre farm the Gerber family has owned since 1822. The property remains in the family. David and Leora Gerber, the oldest son and his wife, still live there as does the family of their oldest daughter, Karen. The farm served as a sprawling playground for the Gerber children, Steiner recalls. During summer evenings they would play a modified version of baseball in a grassy area between the house and barn. Winters were spent sledding. There were nights when Daniel didn’t make it outside with his siblings. Sometimes it was evening dishes, Steiner said, but more often it was because he was
When the Vietnam War ended, roughly 2,500 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines were listed as missing in action, as well as more than 40 civilians who were in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos for business or working as missionaries and journalists.
ing them in helicopters and planes. The U.S. also supplied weapons for South Vietnamese troops. The evening of May 30, 1962, Gerber and Wilting were walking near the medical center’s grounds when soldiers approached. They bound Gerber’s hands. More soldiers grabbed Mitchell and his family, while another group found Vietti. The soldiers warned Mitchell’s wife, Wilting and the other nurses to wait until morning before leaving. It was the last time Gerber, Mitchell and Vietti were seen by Alliance volunteers. It was the next day when Nathan and Elvina Gerber learned from the Alliance about the fate of their son. The mission-
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with the North Vietnamese reported a captured medical missionary was running a hospital. In May, a captured Viet Cong soldier said he had worked with the three captives. In mid-May 1968, The Canton Repository and other newspapers in the region carried stories that Gerber, Vietti and Mitchell were confirmed to be alive. They were said to be with two other missionaries who had been captured in January 1968 near Ban Me Thuot. News that Gerber was alive followed trying times for the Gerber family. Just two weeks before the report, the family’s father, Nathan Gerber, was killed in a tractor accident on the farm. Earlier in the year, during the Tet Offensive, Viet Cong once again attacked the leprosarium. Ruth Wilting still served as a volunteer and was killed along with other nurses. Wilting had visited the Gerber family in October 1966. “We accepted her as one of us,” Steiner said. They exchanged letters and shared in the hope that Gerber would eventually return.
ary group and Mennonite church worked with U.S. and foreign government agencies, as well as the international Red Cross, hoping to find and rescue their volunteers. U.S. military in the area searched, but they were concerned any rescue attempt would lead to the death of the captives. In July 1962, there were unconfirmed reports the captives were treating wounded Viet Cong soldiers. But there also were reports the three had been killed. “We had quite a few rumors, but they were never substantiated,” Steiner said. A glimmer of hope came in the spring of 1968. A foreign journalist traveling
While the reports in 1968 offered hope, it faded as the United States worked to end its involvement in Vietnam. Late in 1972 word came from Vietnamese tribesmen that Mitchell and Vietti were alive, but Gerber had died. When the Hanoi government provided names of prisoners of war in February 1973, Gerber, Mitchell and Vietti weren’t on the list of people to be released. They were presumed dead. David Gerber said he’s read several books about Vietnam, including firsthand experiences of some who survived. He’s certain his younger brother died. “It’s jungle over there. You can’t expect anybody would live when they’re persecuted, tortured.” Steiner suspects once the war ended the Viet Cong decided they no longer needed Daniel and his companions and simply killed them. She trusts in God the situation ended as it should. “It taught me what it is to have faith in God,” Steiner said. “You trust him for everything.”
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