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Eldred World War II Museum described the “All-American boy,” a well-liked student who shoveled snow for neighbors and tutored children. “These are heroes,” he said of servicemen and women — not the current pop culture icons that many youth look up to. For all the cruelty that occurred during World War II, the war also showed equally powerful displays of kindness and unselfishness. One small, unassuming room in the museum keeps alive the memory of some of of those heroes: Purple Heart recipients. It was at this part of the tour that Appleby returned to the story of Bradybaugh: The corporal was killed during the Battle of the Bulge, Appleby said. In the room was a box mailed to his family that announced his death. For decades, his family didn’t know where Bradybaugh died. That is, until a couple of years ago when they received a phone call from a family member of Bradybaugh’s best friend in the war, a man named Al. When Al died a couple of years ago, his family found a photo of Bradybaugh in Al’s sock drawer — a souvenir Al kept for seven decades of the man who saved his life. Appleby explained that on the day Bradybaugh died, Bradybaugh and Al left their post to get soup and coffee for their fellow soldiers. During the outing, Bradybaugh realized they were being fired on, threw Al in a hole and placed himself on top of Al, protecting him. “He could have jumped in that hole first,” said Appleby. Bradybaugh died, but Al survived the war and went on to have eight children and a long life. In contrast is the Holocaust room, designed to show how cruel human beings can be to one another. “This,” Appleby said, referring
to the stories in the room, “is why we fought the war.” That’s his biggest goal through his work: to prevent it from happening again by teaching younger generations that it’s up to them to stand up and stop it. “I’ve interviewed dozens of Holocaust survivors,” Appleby said. He explained that, without exception, none of them are looking for revenge or money or fame for what they experienced. “All they want is that we never forget and we never let it happen again.” To that end, whenever students come to the museum, Appleby tells them, “You stand up to evil.” He tells them that when they see someone being bullied, “Stand up.” With its vast stockpile of wartime memories, the museum changes its displays regularly, giving visitors another reason to return: to see new displays. But some spots, like Mitchell Paige Hall, never change. Paige, a Pennsylvania Medal of Honor recipient, “basically charged 1,500 (Japanese soldiers) by himself,” Appleby explained. A new temporary display, set up in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, sits in the windows in front of the museum. People passing the museum can see the exhibit in the windows, which are lit at night. In one window, is an American fighting position; in the other, a German one. “It looks great at night,” Appleby noted. While men on the battlefront often take the spotlight when people talk about war, the museum shows the great contributions women made to the war efforts. “We couldn’t have won the war without the girls,” Appleby said. In fact, Appleby explained that it was the former munitions
plant in Eldred — staffed mostly by women during World War II — that made the development of the museum happen in the first place. An exhibit at the museum showcases women in the American Red Cross who braved the warzones to care for the wounded and dying. Appleby talked about one Red Cross worker who visited the museum. A young woman at the time of the war, she was assigned to a tent where she spent months comforting dying soldiers, day in and day out — a job Appleby said he could never do. The lower level of the museum tells the stories starting in World War I and the history leading to the start of World War II. Here, Appleby reiterated the important lessons from the war. He explained that Hitler was open about what he desired to do years before the Holocaust began. Hitler wrote and published those desires in the 1920s, but despite his aims being known, by 1933, he was put in power — in a position where he could make his aims a reality. The museum also has a current exhibit just called “Captured!” that showcases German items that Americans brought home after the war, such as a German general’s uniform an American soldier took from the general’s house. The Tank Mountain Room was installed in a spot that used to show model airplanes. The current display includes company/unit photographs, as well as a display about the Tuskegee Airmen and dedicated to Tuskegee Airman Wallace Higgins. The museum is in the process of revamping the gift shop, too. On Memorial Day, the museum is open for free and will take part in Eldred’s commemorative ceremonies.
Steve Appleby shows the museum’s collection of American Red Cross uniforms.
In this room, visitors can see Purple Hearts and other keepsakes from soldiers who were wounded or killed in action.
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28th Division were no great battles fought on this field but many who have left Pennsylvania’s fertile hills and valleys to fight in great wars have come to this place. The names of the fallen are here etched in granite, iron or the hearts of we who knew them, served with them and loved them. Long after these markers of stone and steel have disintegrated and vanished, the memory of our fallen will remain in our collective, family and individual memories. The citizen soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division are committed to
their communities, commonwealth and country. We are the best hope of those in need and the greatest fear of those who intend the Nation harm. So whether we are guarding our borders, responding to natural disasters or engaging a determined enemy in close quarters combat, we will be there. And with our hearts and minds as one, we the men and women of the 28th Infantry Division will make our stand, and with one voice repeat the Soldier’s Creed:
I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. Angell said that there is good attendance but he believes there are so many people still out there that don’t know about the event. “It’s a shame that there are so many people that don’t know about the event,” he said. “It’s great for kids. They love the displays with helicopter, trucks and fight-
ing vehicles and the 21-gun salute by the field artillery is amazing.” Angell said he noticed that the Kane VFW Riders were in attendance and many other veteran rider groups from across the state. “I think if more people were aware they would attend,” Angell said. “It’s always at the same time and place; Sunday, the weekend before Memorial Day, at 1 p.m. Mark your calendar for next year.”
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This memorial in Veterans Square in downtown Bradford is a reminder to the community of the ultimate sacrifice made by Master Sgt. Thomas D. Maholic.
Dot Maholic said her late husband, Bill, a Korean War veteran, as well as two of her other sons, Bob and David, also served in the military. She said a dear friend of Thom’s, Art Salisbury, whom he met in the military, stays in touch with her and visits on a regular basis from his home in North Carolina. “He just called me on Mother’s Day and he calls me on Thom’s birthday,” Dot Maholic said. “Now he’ll call me on June 24th (the day Thom was killed) and he’ll call me on Christmas … he calls me ‘Ma’ even though he has his own mother.” She said the continued remembrance of Thom by Salisbury and others in the community, such as students with the Criminal Justice Club at Bradford Area High School, means a lot to her and the family.
During a recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., students from the Criminal Justice Club visited Thom’s final resting spot and placed flowers on his grave. Club members also visited his grave several years ago during another trip to the nation’s capital. “That makes me feel good,” she said of the students’ gesture of respect for her son. In addition to Thom Maholic’s local tributes, other facilities named on his behalf include a base in Afghanistan, a Child Development Center in Fort Bragg, N.C., and a building at the L.E.E.K. Hunting and Mountain Preserve for wounded warriors near Oswayo. Maholic’s family also received an honorary plaque on his behalf on Veterans Day in 2013 from Bradford High.
Photo submitted Alex Ronan, a member of the Criminal Justice Club at Bradford Area High School, lays flowers on the grave of Master Sgt. Thomas D. Maholic during the club’s recent visit to Washington, D.C.
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The son he never saw, Roderick Lowe, who lives today in Laurys Station, Pa., was raised by his mother and adoptive father, Glenn Lowe, who was a good friend and 1938 Olean High School classmate of the late Johnson. Glenn, who served in the U.S. Army during the war and drove troop and supply trucks in Europe, was instrumental in having Johnson’s remains returned to the U.S. in 1952 and buried in Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Portville. In June 2012, Roderick and his wife, Sandy, along with his cousin and his wife, Kenton and Evie Johnson, traveled to France for a memorial ceremony for Johnson. The memorial tribute was organized by Robert Stuard, president of the Lacey-Davis Foundation in Azusa, Calif., and the French air memorial organization known as Association Normande du Souvenir Airien. On June 11, 2012, the group of four Americans were driven to the small village of ColonardCorubert for the memorial ceremonies. “Accompanied by memorial organizers and villagers, we proceeded to the large stone memorial to my father, which was erected along the road
by the wheat field where his plane went down,” Lowe wrote last year. “The landowner, Monsieur Moreau, provided boots for my cousin and me to enable us to make the long walk through the muddy field to the crash site where an American flag flies permanently.” The group then proceeded to the small stone village church. “I was overwhelmed when I saw the plaque honoring my father on the outside wall near the doorway,” Lowe wrote. “Mayor Guy Verney and I placed flowers on the ground below the plaque and he spoke the crowd that had formed nearby.” Deeply moved already, Lowe was later presented with his father’s left shoe in a box with French and American flags that a local family had carefully preserved for 68 years. Mayor Moreau also gave Lowe small fragments from his father’s Thunderbolt and some soil from the crash site. “This brought me closer to a father I did not have the privilege of knowing,” Lowe wrote. “People who witnessed the crash came forth and with what they saw and (a villager) gave his written account to me, for which I am grateful.”
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Lt. William E. Johnson Jr. and his wife, Ruth Smith Johnson, were Olean High School sweethearts who married in February 1943 — months before he left for England with his Thunderbolt squadron.
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On this Memorial Day as we honor our fallen servicemen and women who so selflessly served our country.
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