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Medal of Honor Recipient Navy Corpsman William Halyburton Jr.
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Actions worthy of the Medal of Honor don’t always come from a compilation of courageous deeds; they can happen in the shortest window of time. That was likely the case for Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class William Halyburton Jr., a corpsman who died on his first day in combat toward the end of World War II.
Halyburton was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Canton, North Carolina, to parents Mae and William Halyburton. He had two brothers, Bob and Joe. In 1940, the family moved to Miami, but Halyburton only stayed for a short while before moving back to North Carolina to live with his aunt and uncle in Wilmington, according to newspaper reports from the 1940s.
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: May 23, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) The Defense POW /MIA Accounting Agency said it has talked with the Navy about disinterring 94 sailors from the famed battleship USS Arizona who are buried as unknowns at Punchbowl cemetery in Honolulu. But not for identification and potential return to families, as is the usual case, and has been done with hundreds of other unknowns at Punchbowl officially named the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The accounting agency disinterred 388 from the USS Oklahoma in 2015. It has exhumed casualties from the USS West Virginia and USS California and the 1943 Battle of Tarawa and hundreds from the Korean War for identification.
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A casket with an unknown U.S. service member is set on a truck during a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3, 2021. (Jacqueline Clifford/U.S. Marine Corps)
23 May 2021 Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. | By Patrick Filbin
With the sound of over 40 motorcycles revving their engines at full throttle, Evelyn Snyder sat quietly in the front seat of a vintage hearse with her brother, finally home, in the back.
Snyder stared stoically ahead waiting for her driver. It s been a long 70 years since she and her family felt closure.
By NATHAN HAVENNER | Messenger-Inquirer | Published: May 23, 2021 CENTERTOWN, Ky. (Tribune News Service) Navy Fireman 3rd Class Welborn Lee Ashby, a casualty of the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack, will finally be laid to rest among his family in his hometown of Centertown in Ohio County on Memorial Day. Ashby was 24 years old and serving aboard the USS West Virginia during the surprise attack. The ship was struck by multiple enemy torpedoes, and 106 crewmen, including Ashby were killed. He was reported to be the first World War II casualty from Ohio County. Ashby s remains were recovered during salvage operations of the ship but were unable to be identified at the time. He was buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed 35 caskets from the cemetery containing the remains of USS West Virginia casualties. DNA samples provided by his family led to Ashby s identification in 2019.
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Georgia Soldier Laid to Rest 70 Years Later
After seven decades missing in action and presumed killed in action during the Korean War, U.S. Army Cpl. Henry Lewis Helms was brought home at last.
May 23, 2021
After being missing in action for seven decades and presumed killed in action while fighting in the Korean War, U.S. Army Corporal Henry Lewis Helms received full honors with funeral rites and burial in Ringgold, Georgia.
Funeral services were held Saturday, May 22 at 2:00 p.m. at the Wilson Funeral Home in Ringgold.
Born September 19, 1926 in DeKalb County, Alabama, Cpl. Helms and his family moved to Ringgold, Georgia during the 1940’s. Helms enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the last year of World War II. Cpl. Helms reenlisted in the U.S. Army on August 12, 1948. During the Korean War Cpl. Helms served with Dog Company (D Co), 1st Battalion (Bn), 32nd Infantry (1/32INF), 7th Infantry Division (ID).