Clarksburg's Courageous follows the 222 veterans from the small rural village of Clarksburg Ohio day-by-day through World War II, including modern-day research on many of their individual stories
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September 28, 1942: Ralph Ater enlists in the U.S. Navy. Pictured with his family.
September 28, 1944: Marcus Ater, aboard the USS Denver, returns to Manus. Norman Trapp flies his fifth bombing mission on Magdeburg in B-17 43-38405. Willis Cleary...
September 25, 1942: Clarence Minnix transfers from Ft. Benjamin Harrison to Camp Crowder, Missouri attached to D Company, 29th T.N. Signal Battalion. Harold Anderson returns stateside from a two year assignment in Panama. Following a ten-day...
Today in Ohio Military History: Clarksburg Ohio World War II vets move on the enemy:
September 23, 1943: Norman Dean receives a medical discharge from the U.S. Army and returns to Chillicothe, Ohio. He was previously based at Fort Knox, Kentucky. W.A....
Today in Ohio History: Clarksburg Ohio World War II heavy bomber crew members continue fighting:
September 22, 1943: Ralph Anderson is participating in advanced B-17 training at Dalhart, Texas and preparing to transfer to Scott Field, Illinois in a...
Generational Military Service from Clarksburg Ohio - A Family Affair
Recent examinations of Clarksburg Ohio's service rolls from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II identified a number of consistent names. I thought it would be fitting to...
