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Fallen Heroes: Corporal Russell D. May

Photograph of the retreat from North Korea by UN Forces, December 1950. (Source: artsandculture.google.com)

A soldier from Tuscarawas County vanished in a frozen Korean gauntlet, leaving his family waiting years for answers. Russell D. May (1928-1950) was the son of Eugene Curtis May (1896-1957) and Mary Adeline Shonk (1906-1981). He grew up in the rural communities of Sugar Creek and Wayne Townships alongside his siblings, including a brother andContinue reading “Fallen Heroes: Corporal Russell D. May”

Fallen Heroes: Private Oscar F. Nicewander

Infantry personnel . Operation Enterprise - 2LT Manlove, Platoon Leader, 3rd Platoon, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 9th Infantry - Location: Rach Kien, Vietnam. Photographer: Freddie Duncan

This fallen hero from the hamlet of Dundee had barely been in service three months when he made the ultimate sacrifice in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The Nicewander family came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in the first half of the 19th century with the arrival of Peter Nicewander (1809-1882). The family originally settled inContinue reading “Fallen Heroes: Private Oscar F. Nicewander”