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Identifier
20032362
Description
A trainload of veterans stopped in Fort Worth. One of the first men to step off the trains was Staff Sergeant Ben C. Munday, left, whose grandmother is Mrs. J. B. McKeever lives at 1500 S. Lake. Munday stood in the midst of other unshaven vets of the famed Merril's Marauders, who blazed a trail right through the center of Japanese lines in Burma. Munday is a former Cleburne High School football and basketball letterman. Corporal Arthur Johanson, center, is a Fort Worth resident. He is with the 374th Squadron, 308th Bomb Group in the China Area and asserted he lived on rice, eggs and water buffalo for two years. The men are standing in front of a railroad car. The third man is not identified. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, June 29, 1945.
Archival Date
1945-06-28
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-344
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Veterans; Railroad cars
Names
Cleburne High School (Cleburne, Tex.); Munday, Ben C.; McKeever, J. B. (Mrs.); Merrill's Mauraders; Johanson, Arthur; United States Army Air Forces Bombardment Group 308th; China-Burma-India theater; United States Army Composite Unit (Provisional) 5307th
Subjects
Veterans; Railroad cars