McCurtain Co. Obit - Virgil Randolph Lewis

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Billie Goode   bgoode@intplsrv.net
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McCurtain Gazette  Saturday , July 10, 1943
 
COUNTY MAN KILLED IN
NORTH AFRICA ACCIDENT
 
NO DETAILS KNOWN OF
OF DEATH OF PVT.
VIRGIL LEWIS
 
   
Pvt. Virgil LEWIS ,stationed with the U.S.Army in North Africa ,has
been killed in an accident, his parents, Mr and Mrs James L. LEWIS,
Iron Stob, were notified this week by the war department.
  
The date and details of the accident are unknown, but the telegram
stated that a letter would follow.
   
The 22-year-old soldier had been in service about 18 months. He had
received his training Fort Sill, Camp Roberts and in Washington before
being shipped from Florida directly to Africa in December.
   
A truck driver, he went through the campaigns in that area uninjured.
   
He was a farmer and worked with His father on their farm one mile
West of Iron Stob before entering the service.
 
My note:
This is my Uncle, Virgil Lewis. I understand that the War had ended by a 
few days and he drove his truck across a beach that had "been
cleaned of land mines" and hit one that detonated. 
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