Ward saw the world: From Wilmington to North Africa & Europe for 99-year-old WWII vet
Ward saw the world: From Wilmington to North Africa & Europe for 99-year-old WWII vet By Paul Butler - For The News Journal Wilbert Ward in 1943. Submitted photos Editor’s Note: This is the first of periodic profiles of Clinton County veterans, written by Paul Butler for the News Journal. Nobody knew — on that 8th day of May, 1921 — where the roads of life would lead the boy born in the little house on Ludovic Street in Wilmington. No one could have imagined he would serve in the uniform of the United States — through two wars — or that he would see action in six countries, on two...