Shelton Farm Girl Remembers the WWII North Platte Canteen
By Kylie Kinley, Assistant Editor
The North Platte Canteen served over six million World War II service men and women traveling on the Union Pacific railroad between ...
World War II
What We Found
Throwback Thursday Photo, North Side Community Center
February is Black History Month. This photograph celebrates the brave African-American men and women who served in the military during World War II. Taken in October ...
Evelyn Sharp, Nebraska’s teen airmail pilot
Evelyn Sharp wasn’t Nebraska’s first female pilot, but is remembered for all she accomplished during her brief life.
Sharp’s father owned a café in Ord and rented ...
Marker Monday: Japanese Balloon Bombs
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During World War II the Japanese built some nine thousand hydrogen-filled, paper balloons to carry small bombs to North America, hoping to set ...
Abbott and Costello Honored for War Bond Sales
Nebraska Governor Dwight Griswold (left) presented comedians Bud Abbot and Lou Costello with souvenir ears of corn during ceremonies at the Nebraska State Capitol on ...
Marker Monday: Andrew Jackson Higgins
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Andrew Jackson Higgins, designer and manufacturer of World War 11 landing craft known as “Higgins boats,” was born August 28, 1886, at Columbus, ...
Marker Monday: Scottsbluff Army Air Field
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During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces operated a satellite airfield at this site. In the fall of 1942 twenty-eight farms were vacated ...
Marker Monday: World War II Hero Charles Jackson French
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The “Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French Post Office” is named in honor of an Omaha sailor. Born in Arkansas, French moved to Omaha to live ...
Marker Monday: Alfred Maximilian Gruenther
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Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, four-star general in the U.S. Army, was born in Platte Center, Nebraska, on March 3, 1899, to Christian and Mary Shea ...
G.I. Josephine
Editor's note, March 2025: "G.I. Josephine" Ruth Diamond Levinson's army jacket is currently displayed in the "Nebraska Unwrapped" exhibit at the Nebraska History ...
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