Nazi Propaganda
Bainbridge News & Republican, August 17, 1944
Bryan Burgin, who is home on a seven-day furlough, talked to the Rotary Club at the regular dinner Tuesday evening. He told the club members some of his experiences in Army life and held the close attention of all. He said that German prisoners in that section are very haughty. When they came up New York bay and saw the New York skyline they were amazed the city could have been "rebuilt" so soon. They had been shown news reels while in the German Army where New York was blown to bits by Nazi bombers--Margaretville News.
Livingston Latham is First Class Seaman
Bainbridge News & Republican, August 17, 1944
Livingston S. Latham, who has been at the Naval Training Station at Gulfport, Miss., has completed his course in the Quartermaster Corps and now has a first class seaman's rating. He was recently transferred to Camp Shumanker, Calif.
Pfc. Howel Green Dies of Wounds
Private First Class Howell B. Green, employed in the Borden plant at Otego before entering the Army, died of wounds receive din action June 16. He was a graduate of the Otego Central School. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Aug. 17, 1944]
Pfc. Howell Green, 26, stepson of Mrs. Fred D. Kenyon of Gansevoort, was seriously wounded in action July 16, and died the same day, according to word received form the War Department last night. Private Green, who had been in the service three years last March, was inducted from Otego. He had been overseas since last April. His father died three years ago and his stepmother has since remarried. He is a native of Gansevoort and made his home with his stepmother 15 years. His other immediate survivors are his sister, Mrs. D.J. DiBernard of Brooklyn, his brothers, Donald Green of Corinth and Baird Green of Rome, and two half brothers, Warren and Robert Green of Gansevoort, sons of Mrs. Kenyon, who is the former Miss Marion Vines, Daughter of Dr. and Mr. Edward H. Viens of Maple Avenue. [The Satatogian, Aug. 2, 1944]
Kesley Peck Wins Purple Heart
Bainbridge News & Republican, August 17, 1944
Mr. and Mrs. Corbin Peck, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], formerly of Roxbury, recently received from their son, Private First Class Kesley Peck, the Purple Heart awarded him for wounds received in Normandy, France, on June 14.
Compiler Note: Kesley Peck would later serve in the Korean War as described in the following article:
Sidney [Delaware Co., NY]: A Sidney baby, 11-month old Florence Catherine Peck, received a bronze-star medal, awarded to her father Sgt. Kesley Peck, who has been missing in action in North Korea, The citation read as follows: "In attempting to cross the river, several members of the company were swept off their feet and carried helplessly down the river by the swift current. Without regard for his personal safety Sgt. Peck plunged into the river under intense enemy fire and in the sub-zero temperature was successful in pulling one man to safety and then returning to rescue another before he became exhausted." Sgt. Peck was awarded this medal for Korean action in November 1950. Two months later he was listed as missing . It is thought he is now a prisoner of the North Koreans. This ceremony took place at the American Legion Home last night. The award was made by Air Force Capt. Charles E. Gibbons of Binghamton. Sgt. Peck was born in Downsville [Delaware Co., NY], Feb. 1, 1921. He attended school at Roxbury and joined the Army in 1939 when he was 17. He was in World War 2, a member of the First infantry Division. He received the Purple Heart at the Normandy Beachhead and a bronze star with oakleaf cluster in Belgium. He was discharged in July, 1945. he reenlisted in January 1946 and was sent to Fort Benning, Ga. While there he married the former Dorothy Halford of Columbus, Ga. He shipped for Korea Aug. 3, 1950. On the morning of Jan. 20, 1951, the last letter was received from him. It was written from South Korea. On March 13, Mrs. Peck received a letter from M/Sgt. Woodrow W. Haines from an Army hospital in the United States stating that he had been taken captive in North Korea on Jan. 20 and that he had seen Kesley Peck as a prisoner of North Koreans. Nothing has been heard of him since that time, but it is believed that he is still a prisoner. Attending the ceremony was the mother of Sgt. Peck, Mrs. Florence Peck, and his wife and three sisters, Mrs. Paul Shafer, Mrs. James Hinkley of Roxbury, and Mrs. Charles Reynolds of Bainbridge; also a brother, Pvt. Baryl Peck, stationed at Fort Devens, Mass. [Binghamton Press, August 30, 1951]
A message from the War Department to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Adsit, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], informed them that their son, Sgt. Robert C. Adsit, had been killed in action. the message stated that Sergeant Adsit was killed on the island of Saipan on July 12. Sergeant Adsit was a veteran of four year service, having been inducted into the Army in 1940. He was the first inductee from Sherburne, and is believed to be the first infantryman from that village to be killed in action. The Sherburne soldier, who was 26 years old, was a graduate of the Sherburne Central School and the Simmons School of Embalming in Syracuse.
Compiler Note: Kesley Peck would later serve in the Korean War as described in the following article:
Sidney [Delaware Co., NY]: A Sidney baby, 11-month old Florence Catherine Peck, received a bronze-star medal, awarded to her father Sgt. Kesley Peck, who has been missing in action in North Korea, The citation read as follows: "In attempting to cross the river, several members of the company were swept off their feet and carried helplessly down the river by the swift current. Without regard for his personal safety Sgt. Peck plunged into the river under intense enemy fire and in the sub-zero temperature was successful in pulling one man to safety and then returning to rescue another before he became exhausted." Sgt. Peck was awarded this medal for Korean action in November 1950. Two months later he was listed as missing . It is thought he is now a prisoner of the North Koreans. This ceremony took place at the American Legion Home last night. The award was made by Air Force Capt. Charles E. Gibbons of Binghamton. Sgt. Peck was born in Downsville [Delaware Co., NY], Feb. 1, 1921. He attended school at Roxbury and joined the Army in 1939 when he was 17. He was in World War 2, a member of the First infantry Division. He received the Purple Heart at the Normandy Beachhead and a bronze star with oakleaf cluster in Belgium. He was discharged in July, 1945. he reenlisted in January 1946 and was sent to Fort Benning, Ga. While there he married the former Dorothy Halford of Columbus, Ga. He shipped for Korea Aug. 3, 1950. On the morning of Jan. 20, 1951, the last letter was received from him. It was written from South Korea. On March 13, Mrs. Peck received a letter from M/Sgt. Woodrow W. Haines from an Army hospital in the United States stating that he had been taken captive in North Korea on Jan. 20 and that he had seen Kesley Peck as a prisoner of North Koreans. Nothing has been heard of him since that time, but it is believed that he is still a prisoner. Attending the ceremony was the mother of Sgt. Peck, Mrs. Florence Peck, and his wife and three sisters, Mrs. Paul Shafer, Mrs. James Hinkley of Roxbury, and Mrs. Charles Reynolds of Bainbridge; also a brother, Pvt. Baryl Peck, stationed at Fort Devens, Mass. [Binghamton Press, August 30, 1951]
Sgt. Robert Adsit Killed in Action
Bainbridge News & Republican, August 17, 1944
A message from the War Department to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Adsit, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], informed them that their son, Sgt. Robert C. Adsit, had been killed in action. the message stated that Sergeant Adsit was killed on the island of Saipan on July 12. Sergeant Adsit was a veteran of four year service, having been inducted into the Army in 1940. He was the first inductee from Sherburne, and is believed to be the first infantryman from that village to be killed in action. The Sherburne soldier, who was 26 years old, was a graduate of the Sherburne Central School and the Simmons School of Embalming in Syracuse.
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