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After World War II, Millett attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, for three years before being called up to serve in the Korean War. On 5 December 1950 Capt Millett was flying as an observer in a Stinson L-5 Sentinel when Capt J.F.O. Davis DFC, 2 Sqn SAAF attached to 18 Fighter Bomber Wing, crash landed his F-51D Mustang in North Korea ...
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Clarksville Middle School is known as the Chargers; Clarksville high School's sports teams are the Generals. CHS is a part of IHSAA Class 2A, and is a member of the Mid-Southern Conference; they have won the 2013–2014 Class 2A Southridge Regional Championship, and the 2012–2013 Class 2A Crawford County Sectional [ 11 ] [ 12 ]
Then occurred the first mention of a woman's Christian service, within the bounds of the Synod of West Virginia. Mrs. Agnes Stuart (nee Agnes Lewis, of the line of Col. Andrew Lewis), wife of Col. John Stuart, was the principal subscriber to this building, she and her brother, Colonel Lewis, giving US$2,500. No doubt this woman's interest ...
Robert Frederick Sink (3 April 1905 – 13 December 1965) was a senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II and the Korean War, though he was most famous for his command of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, throughout most of World War II, in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
Under Milroy, the 5th Virginia (later to be designated the 5th West Virginia) fought at the Battle of McDowell, May 8, 1862 and the Battle of Cross Keys on June 8, 1862, with the regiment under the command of Col John L. Ziegler. Defenses of Washington, D.C., to October, 1862. District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, Dept. Ohio, to January, 1863.
Among the early settlers was Daniel Boone, who had been a scout for Colonel Lewis during Dunmore's War, and subsequently settled in Kentucky. He came to Point Pleasant in 1788, and opened a trading post. He was named Lieutenant Colonel of the Kanawha County Militia, [ii] and served a term in the Virginia House of Delegates beginning in 1791. He ...
The 14th Tennessee was organized and drilled at Camp Duncan near Clarksville in May 1861 by Col. William A. Forbes, [1] Almost immediately it received orders transferring it to the Virginia theatre where the regiment would remain for the duration of the war and served with distinction in the Army of Northern Virginia, until its final capitulation.