Unwelcome Visitors
75 Years Ago
June 11, 2020
Herald of June 14, 1945
Corporal Denver K. Ake of Martinsburg, left his air base at Kearney, Neb., for a destination unknown early this week. He has been taking advanced training on a B-29, one of the Super Fortress bombers at several camps for some time.
Pvt. Joe K. Smith, who has been with the engineers overseas but more recently in a prison camp, is enroute home after being liberated, according to a letter written to his parents dated May 27.
The starlings have made their annual invasion of Martinsburg. In addition to the unsanitary conditions which they bring, their noisy chattering in...
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