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HARTINGTON - A Cedar County soldier is a living example of how close death can come while not engaged in shooting at the enemy, according to Bill Billotte, Omaha World Herald staff member, who is now in the Philippines, reporting news of July 12, 1945
HARTINGTON - Sgt. John W. Eskins, son of John Eskins, Wynot, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal for meritorious service. Sgt.
Eskins is currently stationed in Germany as a radio technician with the Headquarter Company of the 691st Tank Destroyer Batallion.
July 12, 1945
Nebraska soldiers for his paper.
When death misses by a hair’s breadth, the incident often becomes the cause of uproarious laughter, Billotte wrote. “T5 Vernon Guy, 24, Wynot, was the victim of one of these circumstances,” Billotte wrote. “He was driving a small truck down the precipitous Villa Verde Trail. Another truck crashed into the rear of his machine. The truck hurdled over the cliff. Vernon did a swan dive out from under the wheel and was skidding for a sheer drop of 400 feet while his truck, turning end over-overend, crashed into a heap of twisted metal at the bottom. ““ ‘I managed to grab a couple of handsful of underbrush just in time or I would have followed the truck down,”’ Vernon said. “Then’ when I get back to my base and the word got around, all the guys roar laughing and ask the commanding officer if it will be all right if the air corps issue me a parachute before I take out another truck,’“ Vernon is the son of Willard Guy of Wynot.
July 12, 1945
HARTINGTON - Six Cedar County men have passed their preinduction physical examinations for military service and have been ordered to report July 23 for induction, and 16 others have been ordered to report July 18 for their pre-induction physicals, Ludvig Nedergaard, secretary of the local selective service board, has announced.
The men who will report Monday, July 23, are Norman B. Buschelman of Crofton; Duane M. Dreesen of Hartington; Sanford Gamel of Belden; Ralph A. Schaefer and Xavier F. Becker of St. Helena.
July 12, 1945
HARTINGTON - Pvts. John Guenther, Leon Vornhagen, Odilo Becker, Clarence Wuebben, Milon Schmidt, Reinholdt Burbach, James Stappert, Dallas Leader, and Ivo Kathol arrived here Friday from Camp Wolters in Texas to spend short furloughs with their families.
