JOHNSON, Max; FINDLEY, Everett; THOMAS, Kenneth; KIDWELL, Harold; MARTIN, Clarence

JOHNSON, FINDLEY, THOMAS, MOORE, KIDWELL, MARTIN

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 8/3/2015 at 18:44:25

HASTINGS BOYS REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION

DR. D. W Harmon, Home Service chairman, of the Mills County Chapter of the American Red Cross, is kept advised of war casualties of the county as fast as they are released by the war department.

He has received word of three Hasting boys in addition to the two Glenwood boys who have been killed in action. The Hastings boy are Everett Findley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude C. Findley; Max Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Johnson; and Kenneth H. Thomas, son of Mrs. Lydia Moore of Hastings.

Glenwood Opinion Tribune
February 4, 1943, page 1

FIVE FROM HASTINGS KILLED IN THIS WAR
Memorial Services Held Sunday in Hastings Church. 11 left with Co. I. Only 3 with company now.

Memorial services were held Sunday at the Methodist Church in Hasting for the five soldiers from that community who were killed in action. All five were members of Company I of the National Guard and were killed during the last six months in the North African Campaign. Max Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson, Everett Arthur Findley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Findley, and Kenneth Thomas, who made his home with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moore, were killed soon after the American forces invaded North Africa. Harold Kidwell, son of S. R. Kidwell, and Clarence Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Martin, were killed in action near the close of the campaign.

Of the 13 Hastings boys who received their training with the National Guard at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, only three are with their original companies. Vic Vanderpool is still with Co. M., Gerald Mosier is with Co. I, and Bruce Wallahn is with an engineers division. Eleven of the boys were in Co. I. Five were killed in action, three are German prisoners, one was wounded and another was left behind in an English Hospital.

An honor roll is now being prepared to pay tribute to all the boys from that vicinity who are in the armed forces. When completed it will contain more than 60 names.

Glenwood Opinion Tribune, June 3, 1943, page 1