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WWII Honor Roll Portage Corp & Rural Rte

 
 
WWII Honor Roll Portage Corp & Rural Rte Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, December 5, 2021
1. WWII Honor Roll Portage Corp & Rural Rte Marker
Inscription.
Abke, Dave • Adams, Paul • Allen, Harry L. • Allen, James L. • Allen, Darryl • Allen, Robert G. • Amos, Ned • Atkins, Robert • Barnett, Carl • Bloomfield, Donald • Bloomfield, Kenneth • Brockbrader, Donald • Brisbane, Robert • Burdock, Harold • Caldwell, Ned • Canterbury, Arnal • Canterbury, Earl • Canterbury, Harold • Chamberlain, Gerald • Chamberlain, Virgil • Chaney, Frederick • Davis, Leonard • Davis, Milton • Davis, Paul • Davis, William • Deutschman, Alfred • Dietrich, Lawrence • Douglas, William • Drain, Alfred • Drain, Blythe • Drain, Donald • Drain, Howard • Drain, Maxwell • Drain, Richard • Dulaney, Harold • Dulaney, Roy • Dulaney, Woodrow • Eagleson, Albert • Eagleson, Lavoid • Eckert, Robert • Edwards, Robert • Eggleston, Carl • Ernsthausen, Richard • Fisher, Raymond • Fulmer, Lester • Fulmer, William Paul • Gainsville, Forest • Grieve, Ed • Heckman, Ray • Hilt, Darrel • Hilt, George • Hottinger, John • Irean, Clarence • Justinger, Donald • Kanke, Frederick • Kerr, Floyd • Kilgore, Martin • Klinger,
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Richard • Koch, Joseph • Kominek, John • Koons, Glenn • Lepper, Wendell • Lindower, Robert • Lugabil, Ivan • Maidment, George • Maidment, Mark • Maidment, Merle • McCoy, Arnold • McCoy, Bernard • McCoy, Dale • McLaughlin, Dale • Mears, James • Mears, J.D. • Mercer, Harold • Mercer, Leon • Mossbarger, Dorcey • Patten, Al • Patten, Bill • Patten, Harold • Reynolds, Lawrence • Rickard, Clarence • Rickard, Willis • Rife, Cecil • Roe, Joan • Seiple, Lee • Shank, Keith • Shawaker, Franklin • Shawaker, Karl • Shedron, Harold • Shinew, Robert • Shinew, Ted • Shrider, Billy • Smith, Fred • Smith, William • Stockwell, Edward • Stratton, Harold • Stratton, John • Thiebaut, Dale • Thiebaut, Ralph • Van Vorhis, Everett • Wall, Robert • Willis, Richard • Willis, Sam • Yates, Charles

Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 • Midway June 3, 1942 • Guadalcanal Aug. 7, 1942 • D-Day Invasion June 6, 1944 • Liberation of Paris Aug. 25, 1944 • Battle of the Bulge Dec. 16, 1944 • Battle of Iwo Jima Feb. 19, 1945 • V-E Day May 7, 1945 • V-J day August
WWII Honor Roll Portage Corp & Rural Rte Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, December 5, 2021
2. WWII Honor Roll Portage Corp & Rural Rte Marker
15, 1945
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.
 
Location. 41° 19.659′ N, 83° 39.081′ W. Memorial is in Portage, Ohio, in Wood County. It is at the intersection of West Walnut Street and Knaggs Avenue, on the left when traveling west on West Walnut Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 110 W Walnut St, Portage OH 43451, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Ohio’s Black Swamp, in the Till Plains, and in the Toledo Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American Midwest, on the Great Lakes, and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Enright Park Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.3 miles away); Portage Cemetery Veterans Memorial
WWII Honor Roll Portage Corp & Rural Rte Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, December 5, 2021
3. WWII Honor Roll Portage Corp & Rural Rte Marker
(approx. Ύ mile away); Ohio Buckeye Tree (approx. 1.4 miles away); State of Ohio (approx. 1.4 miles away); Wood County Home Cemetery (approx. 2.3 miles away); Cattle Barn, 1892 (approx. 2.3 miles away); Corn Crib & Tool Shed, 1872 (approx. 2.3 miles away); Cisterns, Ponds, and Privies (approx. 2.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Portage.
 
Another marker is no longer nearby. Portage Stockade (was approx. 0.4 miles away but has been confirmed missing).
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 10, 2021. It was originally submitted on December 10, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 280 times since then and 14 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on December 10, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
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