Category: Clay County in World War II
The Pearl of the Orient: Ray Gregory Protects the Streets of Postwar Manila
By: Gary Burns Reprinted from The Clay Count Ancestral News 32, no. 1 (2016). Ray Gregory may have been fifteen however, in 1943 he was far from oblivious to the turmoil the world outside, Hima, Clay County, Kentucky, had Continue Reading
Staff Sergeant Walter E. Woods, 169th Infantry, 1944-45
By Gary Burns Reprinted from Clay County Ancestral News 32, no. 1 (2016). Like most veterans of WWII, my father, Ambrose Burns, created a scrapbook of important events which occurred around him during his wartime service. Most veterans ranked their Continue Reading
Eastern Kentuckians Against Imperial Japan, 1944-45
Clay County Veterans of WWII World War II pulled more than 3000 Clay County men into service against enemies of the United States and her allies. The Clay County Historical Society continues its series of articles honoring the county’s World Continue Reading