Military Legacy Of Perry County, Kentucky And Beyond

MILITARY LEGACY OF PERRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND BEYOND

GENEALOGY ~ PHOTOGRAPHS ~ LETTERS ~ HISTORY

Written And Compiled By Waukesha Lowe Sammons

Daughter of Daskum Combs (1917 - 2005) and Technical Sergeant, Albert Roy "Jake" Lowe (1917 - 1944),

who was awarded a Silver Star Medal for Action Taken on The Fourth of July 1944 in France,

and who was Killed In Action on September 16, 1944 in World War II.

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WORLD WAR II (1941 - 1945)

PERRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES

REMEMBER AND NAME, N - O
A World War II Introduction With Medal Of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross And Silver Star Medal Recipients Were Placed In The A Section.

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NAPIER

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NAPIER, CARL (1923-1944), KILLED IN ACTION, HOLLAND, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: CHAVIES, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Birth: 28 September 1923, Perry County, Kentucky per Birth Index Record. Born 14 October 1924 on headstone and 1923 and 1924 on headstone application.
Parents: Anna Combs and Gabriel F. Napier.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 11 and 15 May 1943 on conflicting documents.
Service Number: 35801221.
Rank: Private First Class.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army Air Corps.
Combat Organization: 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, WWII. ~ “Operation Market Garden ... initial plan for September 17, 1944 was to use the paratroopers and glidermen ... in a daring daylight drop into Holland ... to seize roads, bridges and key communication cities ... in the afternoon, the entire regiment landed on one field and the unit pushed south to Zon.” Source: The 101st Airborne WWII, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Website: ww2-airborne.us.
~ “September 17, 1944 ... destination Holland ... This was the largest airborne mission in history, the three-division jump of the 1st Allied Airborne Army.” Source: Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper’s Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster, 1994, Bantam Dell Publisher, New York.
Date of Death: 17 September 1944.
Place of Death: HOLLAND, WWII.
Status: KILLED IN ACTION, WWII.
Disposition: BURIED.
Burial: Battlefield Burial Unknown.
Repatriated: 1949.
Cemetery: Red Hill Cemetery, Chavies, Perry County, Kentucky. Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: CARL NAPIER carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.
NOTE: I placed my fourth-cousin-1-time-removed, Carl Napier on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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NAPIER, FLOYD WILLARD (1919-1944), KILLED IN ACTION, FRANCE, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: BOWLINGTOWN, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Other Residence: Doorway, Perry County, Kentucky. Owsley County, Kentucky.
Date of Birth: 7 November 1919, Perry County, Kentucky.
Parents: Hannah Abner and Henry Napier.
Grandparents: Elizabeth Barger and John Napier.
Spouse: Ada Adams.
Children: Ethel Napier, who married Charles Albert Helton.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 4 or 6 March 1944.
Service Number: 35071099.
Rank: Private.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: Company F, 346th Infantry, 87th Infantry Division, USAGF, WWII. ~ “The 87th Infantry Division ... landed in France 1-3 December [1944], and moved to Metz, where on the 8th, it went into action against and took Fort Driant. The Division then shifted to the vicinity of Gross Rederching near the Saar German border on the 10th of December and capturing Rimling, Obergailbach, and Guiderkirch ...” Source: 87th Infantry Division WWII Combat Chronicles; website: army.mil.
Date of Death: 19 December 1944.
Place of Death: FRANCE, WWII.
Status: KILLED IN ACTION.
Disposition: BURIED.
Burial: Battlefield Burial Unknown.
Repatriated: 1948.
Cemetery: Clara Barger Cemetery, Doorway or Saul, Perry County, Kentucky.
Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: FLOYD W. NAPIER carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.

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NOBLE

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NOBLE, ARTHUR ( -1943), KILLED IN ACTION, MISSING, LOST AT SEA, ARMY AIRMAN, PASSENGER ON TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP H.M.T. RHONA, WHEN THE SHIP SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA BY A GERMAN GUIDED MISSILE, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: PERRY COUNTY, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Birth: Currently Unknown.
Parents: Currently Unknown. Was this Arthur Noble, born 23 February 1923 in Perry County, the son of Andrew Noble and Delilah Allen? If so, his hometown was ARY, Perry County, Kentucky. Or was he the son of Bertha Miller and John Nobel? Or was he the son of Georgia and Dewey Noble?
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: Did he enlist on 12 January 1943?
Service Number: 35682894.
Rank: Technician Grade Five.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army Air Forces.
Combat Organization: 853rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Corps Of Engineers.
~ Thanksgiving Day, 25 November 1943, Arthur Noble was on board the H.M.T. RHONA, a British passenger ship, which transported troops in World War II. On 26 November the H.M.T. RHONA was hit by a German Guided Missile. The event was kept secret for nearly 50 years from the deceased’s families and American citizens.
Date of Death: Saturday, 27 November 1943.
Place of Death: MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
~ “THE SINKING OF H.M.T. RHONA – NOVEMBER 26, 1943...THE FIRST UNITED STATES SHIP DESTROYED BY A GUIDED MISSILE IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE. ITS DESTRUCTION BY THESE MEANS WAS DEEMED CLASSIFIED...” Source: Joe Irons. Website: tngennet.org.
~ “On November 26, 1943 the 24 ship convoy was in the Mediterranean as three Luftwaffe Squadrons descended on them...the German bombers carried the latest technology – rocket propelled, radio-controlled Henschel HS-293 glide bombs... On the ROHNA...Hundreds died upon impact...explosion destroyed the Engine Room, the ship was engulfed in flames and sunk. A total of 1,015 American troops, 3 Red Cross personnel and 120 crewmen perished.” Source: Joe Irons, whose website included a Casualty List. Website: tngennet,org. Joe Irons.
Status: KILLED IN ACTION, MISSING IN ACTION, LOST AT SEA.
Disposition: NONRECOVERABLE. Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: ARTHUR NOBLE carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.
Memorialized: North African American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunis Tunisia.
U. S. Awards: Purple Heart Medal.

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NOBLE, GREEN (1908-1945), DIED NON BATTLE, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: LOST CREEK, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Other Residence: Breathitt County, Kentucky.
Date of Birth: 13 November 1908. (He was born before Kentucky began to record births and deaths in 1911. On the 1910 census in Perry County, he was 1-year-6-months old.)
Parents: Arrena/Oreana Neace and James Noble.
Entered Service From: Perry County, Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 21 May 1942, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Service Number: 35455896.
Rank: Private First Class.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization:
Date of Death: 26 June 1945.
Place of Death:
Status: DIED NON BATTLE.
Disposition: BURIED.
Cemetery: Noble Cemetery, Bonnyman, Perry County, Kentucky. Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: GREEN NOBLE carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.

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NOBLE, IRVON (1921-1945), DIED NON BATTLE, EUROPE, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: ARY, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Birth: 11 April 1921, Perry County, Kentucky.
Parents: Julie Russell and John Noble.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 5 August 1940, Fort Knox, Branch Cavalry, Quartermaster Corps.
Service Number: 15044428.
Rank: Private First Class.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: 9th Reconnaissance Troop Armored Division, WWII.
Date of Death: 3 April 1945.
Place of Death: EUROPE.
Status: DIED NON BATTLE.
Disposition: Buried.
Burial: First Burial Unknown.
Repatriated/ Internment Date: 26 April 1949, Remarks, “Died Overseas, Returned From Margraten Aacher – Holland.”
Cemetery: Mill Springs National Cemetery, Nancy, Pulaski County, Kentucky. Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: IRVON NOBLE carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.

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NOBLE, LERNON (1923-1945), DIED NON BATTLE, OHIO, USA, POST WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: ARY, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Birth: 24 February 1923, Perry County, Kentucky. (Kentucky Birth Index.) Dates of Birth vary on documents.
Parents: Melvina and Granville Noble.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 5 February 1943.
Service Number: 35787410.
Rank: Private.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: Company D, 805 REP BN INF (Could not find data.)
Date of Death: 3 October 1945. (Note: Japan announced surrender on August 15, 1945, and formally signed document of surrender on 2 September 1945.) Date of Death varied on documents.
Place of Death: Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, USA.
Status: DIED NON BATTLE, POST WWII.
Disposition: BURIED.
Headstone Application: 28 October 1947, signed by Gran Noble.
Cemetery: Alex Noble Cemetery, Ned, Breathitt County, Kentucky or Hazard Cemetery. Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: LERNON NOBLE carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.

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NOPLIS

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NOPLIS, TONY CALABRESE (1918-1945), KILLED IN ACTION, GERMANY, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: HAZARD, Perry County, Kentucky, USA
Other Residence: Delaware, USA.
Date of Birth: 15 December 1918, born in Kentucky. Tony was born in Kentucky on 1920, 1930 Census.
Parents: Eliza Partin and Rosario Antonio “Tony” Calabrese Noplis. Two surnames were used by the family: Calabrese and Noplis. On the 1920 and 1930 census, their last name was Calabrese. Eliza was born in Kentucky and Rosario was born in Italy.
Application and Military Enlistment: In the WWII Honor List of Dead and Missing, Tony was listed in Sussex County, Delaware.
Entered Service From: Perry County, Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 24 July 1940, Fort Knox.
Service Number: 15043981.
Rank: Private First Class.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: Company A, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th “Checkerboard” Division, WWII. ~ “Battle Babies (so dubbed by U. P. War Correspondent John McDermott) ... the order came, Feb 27 [1945], to move out, they were ... ready ... the ... 394th bridged the Erft ... all set to battle their way to the Rhine ... Checkerboards were the first infantry division in First Army to reach the Rhine.” Source: “Battle Babies, The Story of the 99th Infantry Division,” G. I. Stories, Published by The Stars & Stripes in Paris in 1944-1945; website: lonesentry.com.
Date of Death: 3 March 1945, WWII.
Place of Death: GERMANY, WWII.
Status: KILLED IN ACTION, WWII.
Disposition: BURIED.
Burial: Battlefield Burial Unknown.
Repatriated: 1947.
Cemetery: Englewood Cemetery, Christopher, Perry County, Kentucky.
Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: TONY NOPLIS carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.

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NUNN

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NUNN, HENRY JR. (1923-1945), KILLED IN ACTION, OKINAWA, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: WALKERTOWN, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Birth: 25 January 1923, Perry County, Kentucky
Parents: Susan Caroline “Carrie” Glover and Henry Nunn, Sr.
Spouse: Marbeth Marie Hurt.
Children: James Nunn.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 1 June 1943.
Service Number: 35803187.
Rank: Private First Class.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: 381st Infantry, 96th Infantry “Deadeye” Division, Company C, WWII. ~ “The [96th] Division ... making an assault landing on the [Okinawa] island, 1 April 1945 ... The 96th assaulted and cracked the fanatically defended enemy defense lines, Tanabaru Nishibaru, 17-23 April...” Source: 90th Infantry Division Details; website: togetherweserved.com.
Date of Death: 19 April 1945, KILLED IN ACTION.
Place of Death: OKINAWA, WWII.
Status: KILLED IN ACTION, WWII.
Disposition: BURIED.
Burial: Battlefield Burial Unknown.
Repatriated: 1950.
Cemetery: Englewood Cemetery, Christopher, Perry County, Kentucky.
Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: HENRY NUNN carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.

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OGROSKY

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OGROSKY, FRANK (1924-1995), U. S. ARMY, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: JEFF, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Other Residence: Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Date of Birth: 6 January 1924, Perry County, Kentucky.
Parents: Anna Tackett and Walter Ogrosky, Sr. (born Poland). Anna died in 1943 and Walter, Sr. died in 1945. Their 4 sons were serving in the military in World War II. No one was available to be guardians for 4 of their 5 daughters. The girls were placed in the care of the Kentucky Baptist Children’s Home in Glendale in Hardin County.
Note: Other spellings of Walter’s last name: Wladyska, Wladislaw, Wladisl; Okorosky, Okurowski.
Spouse: Renee.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 19 October 1942 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: Unknown.
Date of Death: 11 December 1995.
Place of Death: Pennsylvania.
Source: Wendell Ray Ogrosky.
NOTE: I placed Frank Ogrosky on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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OGROSKY, JOE (1922 - 1984), U. S. ARMY, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: JEFF, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Other Residence: Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
Date of Birth: 12 October 1922 per U. S. Department of Affairs BIRLS.
Parents: Anna Tackett and Walter Ogrosky, Sr. (born Poland). Anna died in 1943 and Walter, Sr. died in 1945. Their 4 sons were serving in the military in World War II. No one was available to be guardians for 4 of their 5 daughters. The girls were placed in the care of the Kentucky Baptist Children’s Home in Glendale in Hardin County.
Note: Other spellings of Walter’s last name: Wladyska, Wladislaw, Wladisl; Okorosky, Okurowski.
Spouse: Katherine.
Entered Service From:
Enlistment Date: 18 October 1939. Released: 5 October 1945.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Date of Death: 10 October 1984.
Occupation: Chef, The Old Roosevelt Hotel, Kansas City.
Cemetery: Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
Source: Wendell Ray Ogrosky.
NOTE: I placed Joe Ogrosky on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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OGROSKY, JOHN "JOHNNY" (1921 - 1940), DIED OF ACCIDENT, PRE WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: JEFF, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Birth: 19 August 1921 in Jeff, Perry County, Kentucky.
Parents: Anna Tackett and Walter Ogrosky, Sr. (born Poland). Anna died in 1943 and Walter, Sr. died in 1945. Their 4 sons were serving in the military in World War II. No one was available to be guardians for 4 of their 5 daughters. The girls were placed in the care of the Kentucky Baptist Children’s Home in Glendale in Hardin County.
Note: Other spellings of Walter’s last name: Wladyska, Wladislaw, Wladisl; Okorosky, Okurowski.
30 July 1940: U. S. Army, Private, Soldier at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Date of Death: 31 July 1940. Original Death Record: “Auto Accident, Dislocation of Neck, Ruptured Liver, Fractured Ribs, Auto Left the Road, Turned .... (Slammed? Into a) Tree.”
Place of Death: Road # 367, East of Emerson, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. Burial: 3 August 1940 at Jeff, Perry County, Kentucky.
Family Information: Johnny Ogrosky was serving in the military. He was with a unit, which had jeeps with machine guns mounted in the back. Normally, when a jeep was moving or parked, the machine gun was fastened down, unable to move. Johnny was driving the jeep, not knowing that the gunner had not locked the gun in stationary place. The gun swung around and decapitated Johnny. Source: Wendell Ray Ogrosky.
NOTE: I placed Johnny Ogrosky on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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OGROSKY, STANLEY (1920-2004), U. S. ARMY, ICELAND, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: JEFF, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Other Residence: London, Laurel County, Kentucky.
Date of Birth: 12 November 1920, Perry County, Kentucky per Kentucky Birth Index.
Parents: Anna Tackett and Walter Ogrosky, Sr. (born Poland). Anna died in 1943 and Walter, Sr. died in 1945. Their 4 sons were serving in the military in World War II. No one was available to be guardians for 4 of their 5 daughters. The girls were placed in the care of the Kentucky Baptist Children’s Home in Glendale in Hardin County.
Note: Other spellings of Walter’s last name: Wladyska, Wladislaw, Wladisl; Okorosky, Okurowski.
Spouse: Martha A. Martin, daughter of Malinda Combs Martin and Alexander Martin.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 9 September 1942, Cincinnati, Ohio.
10 February 1943: Private Stanley Ogrosky, a Non-enlisted Passenger of USS CHATEAU THIERRY, sailing from Boston, Massachusetts. Was he on his way to Iceland?
Rank: Corporal.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army Air Corps. Bomb Crew.
Combat Organization: Unknown. Served in Reykjavik, Iceland and England.
Locations: Stanley traveled by train from Fort Thomas, Kentucky to western Oregon. Transferred by train to Riverside, California. Transferred by ship to Iceland. Previously, he had received desert training warfare, which was useless in Iceland. Transferred and shipped to England. He was head of a bomb crew for the planes that bombed Europe. He fused the bombs and loaded them onto the planes. He returned to the United States by ship. Source: Interview of Wendell Ray Ogrosky.
Date of Death: 14 November 2004.
Place of Death: London Hospital, London, Laurel County, Kentucky.
Cemetery: Davis Cemetery, London, Laurel County, Kentucky.
Source: Wendell Ray Ogrosky.
NOTE: I placed Stanley Ogrosky on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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OGROSKY, WALTER, JR. (1919-1989), U. S. ARMY, WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: JEFF, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Other Residence: Letcher County, Kentucky. Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio.
Date of Birth: 3 September 1919.
Parents: Anna Tackett and Walter Ogrosky, Sr. (born Poland). Anna died in 1943 and Walter, Sr. died in 1945. Their 4 sons were serving in the military in World War II. No one was available to be guardians for 4 of their 5 daughters. The girls were placed in the care of the Kentucky Baptist Children’s Home in Glendale in Hardin County.
Note: Other spellings of Walter’s last name: Wladyska, Wladislaw, Wladisl; Okorosky, Okurowski.
Spouse: Kate Pyburn, daughter of Molly Tipton Pyburn and Robert Edgar Pyburn.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 24 November 1939. Released: 28 October 1944.
1940: Private Walter Ogrosky, Soldier, 19th FA, 5th Division, Fort Knox, Hardin County, Kentucky.
Rank: Private.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: Unknown.
Date of Death: 12 January 1989.
Place of Death: Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio.
Cemetery: Miama Valley Memory Garden, Springboro, Warren County, Ohio.
Source: Wendell Ray Ogrosky.
NOTE: I placed Walter Ogrosky, Jr. on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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OLIVER

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OLIVER, DARWIN KINGSLEY “DEEK” (1915-1944) KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE IN WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: HAZARD, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Birth: 7 January 1915, Perry County, Kentucky.
Parents: Opsie Davidson and William W. Oliver.
Grandparents: Mary Jane Spencer and Elijah Combs Davidson.
Great-grandparents: Louisa Duff and John Calvin Spencer.
Great-great-grandparents: Margaret Bowling and Joseph Spencer.
Great-great-great-grandparents: Mary Pennington and Jesse Bowling.
Graduated Military School: GRADUATE of WEST POINT CLASS of 1939, United States. Military Academy. Source: U. S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Military Date: 2 October 1940.
Service Number: 021941.
Rank: Major.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army Infantry.
Combat Organization: 3rd Battalion, 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. (Source: Eric Ackerman on Findagrave.)
~ War From The Gound Up, The 90th Division In WWII by John Colby, Source for the following:
~ 3 July 1944, France: “... the 90th Division began its ... assault on ... Foret de Mont Castre ... known as Hill 122.”
~ 5 July 1944, France: “The 357th ran into heavy resistance at Beau Coudray.”
~ 10 July 1944, France: “... the 357th formed another J Co. of 120 cooks, mechanics, clerks, etc. and put it in a defensive position near Beau Coudray, which was held by the Germans. In six days of fighting the 357th had 851 casualties, including 160 killed in action.”
~ 25 July 1944: Operation COBRA Began.
~ “July 25 [1944] marks the beginning of two operations; one American, called Cobra, the other British, called Spring...At the evening of July 25, the front line moved only by 2 kilometers towards the south.” Source: The Battle of Normandy, Daily Chronicle of the Battle of Normandy, Tuesday, July 25th 1944. Website: dday-overlord.com.
Date of Death: 25 July 1944. Died on Active Duty. KILLED IN ACTION.
Place of Death: FRANCE, WWII.
Status: KILLED IN ACTION.
Disposition: BURIED.
Burial: Battlefield Burial Unknown.
Repatriated, Interment Date: 30 April 1948
Cemetery: U. S. Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, Orange County, New York. Campaigns, Battles, Theatres: Normandy Campaign, Foret de Mont Castre aka Hill 122, Beau Coudray, European Theatre. Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: DARWIN K. OLIVER carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.
NOTE: I placed my fifth-cousin-2-times-removed, Darwin Kingsley Oliver, on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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OWENS

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OWENS, HARVE JR. (1921-1941), DIED NON BATTLE IN PEACETIME, USA. PRE-WORLD WAR II.
Hometown: HARDBURLEY, Perry County, Kentucky.
Date of Birth: 14 January 1921 in Riseland, West Virginia, per Death Index.
Parents: Huldia Bush and Harve Owens, Sr.
Grandparents: Armelda Combs and Thomas Owens.
Great-grandparents: Rachel Combs and James Owens.
Third-great-grandparents : Rachel Clements and Henry Harrison Combs, Sr.
Entered Service From: Kentucky.
Enlistment Date: 19 October 1939.
Service Number: 6985904.
Rank: Private First Class.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army.
Combat Organization: Anti-Tank Company, 11th Infantry.
Date of Death: 14 June 1941.
Place of Death: Fort Custer, Charleston, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
Status: DIED NON BATTLE, In Peacetime, Pre-World War II.
Cemetery: Pigeon Roost, Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Headstone Application signed 11 December 1941 by Harve Owens, Sr. of Hardburley, Perry County, Kentucky.
Memorial Plaque: WWII Memorial Plaque, first displayed at the Bobby Davis Living Memorial; currently displayed at Memorial Gym in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky. Monument: HARVE OWENS JR. carved within the WWII military section on PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS, a memorial located in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.

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OXFORD, EARL (1921 – 1945) U. S. ARMY, DIED NON BATTLE, WORLD WAR II.
HOMETOWN: Green Ridge (located on Montgomery Creek), Mason’s Creek Precinct, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Mussey, St. Clair County, Michigan. Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan.
DATE OF BIRTH: 13 March 1921 in Perry County, Kentucky.
PARENTS: Marie Davis and James Ray Oxford, who married 13 April 1920 in Perry County, Kentucky. Marie later married Clifton Fugate. James later married Ida. LOSS OF HIS MOTHER AND HALF-BROTHER, 31 JULY 1931, BARRIDGE (LOCATED ON MONTGOMERY CREEK), PERRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY: When Earl Oxford was 10 years old, his mother died after giving birth to still born, baby boy, Fugate. Death Record Informant, Clifton Fugate did not name the parents of his wife, Marie. MATERNAL UNCLE: Berse Davis, who married Jane Combs, daughter of Polly Ann Sumner and Elijah C. Combs, who was the son of Martha Burton and Reverend Ira Combs.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: Cinda Estep and James Oxford.
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: Darcus / Darkis Combs and Pallis / Palace Davis.
PATERNAL GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Lydia “Liddie” Collingsworth and James Oliver Oxford.
MATERNAL GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Martha Campbell and John Davis. MATERNAL GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Josie Sizemore and Clabourne Combs. Source: Kentucky Death Record of Darcus Combs Davis; Informant, Lenora Combs, daughter. (Sizemore is considered a Native American Cherokee Nation name.)
STEP-FATHER: Clifton Fugate.
STEP-MOTHER: Ida.
1930 CENSUS, GREEN RIDGE, PERRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY: Earl Oxford, age 9, step-son, living in the home of his mother, Marie and his step-father, Clifton Fugate. a coal miner.
1930 CENSUS, RICHMOND, WISE COUNTY, VIRGINIA: James Oxford, coal miner, wife, Ida.
RESIDENCE IN 1935: Perry County, Kentucky.
1940 CENSUS, MUSSEY, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, MICHIGAN: Earl Oxford, lodger, age 21, born in Kentucky, in 1935 lived in Perry County, Kentucky, a laborer on a farm. Earl was living in the home of Alma and Lloyd Hazel.
1940 CENSUS, JENKINS, LETCHER COUNTY, KENTUCKY: J. R. Oxford, machine man, coal mines, wife, Ida.
WORLD WAR II DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD, 16 FEBRUARY 1942, MICHIGAN: Earl Oxford, age 20 of 3233 Schaefer, Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan; employer, Dearborn Recreation. Person to contact, Clifton Fugate of the same address. (On June 30, 1942, Earl’s half-brother, Clifton Fugate, Jr. registered for the Draft, and lived at Imlay Twp, Lapeer, Michigan. His next of kin was his father, Clifton Fugate, Sr. of Vicco, Perry County, Kentucky).
WORLD WAR II DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD, 16 FEBRUARY 1942, KENTUCKY: Earl’s father, James Ray Oxford, age 41, born March 10, 1900 in Keokee, Virginia, resides at Dunham, Letcher County, Kentucky, next of kin was his wife, Ida.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Michigan.
ENLISTMENT DATE:    DISCHARGE DATE: 12 August 1945. Died Non Battle, World War II.
SERVICE NUMBER: 36855921.
RANK: Private First Class.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: U. S. Army.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: 38th Engineers General Survey Regiment.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES: European Theatre.
DATE OF DEATH: 12 August 1945. Died Non Battle, World War II.
PLACE OF DEATH: European Theatre.
STATUS: Died Non Battle, World War II.
DISPOSITION: Buried.
FIRST BURIAL: Temporary Cemetery 4650.
SECOND BURIAL: Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.
MONUMENT:
U. S. AWARDS AND MEDALS:
SOURCES: Census. Findagrave. Kentucky Birth Index. Kentucky County Marriage Records. Kentucky Death Records. Headstone Interment Records. National Archives & Records Administration. Overseas American Cemeteries. U. S. Rosters of World War II Dead. Virginia Marriage Records. World War II And Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas. World War II Draft Registration Card.
NOTE: I placed Earl Oxford on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.