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November 14 Speaker Meeting
Allison-Antrim Museum, 365 South Ridge Avenue, Greencastle, Pennsylvania 17225 will hold its monthly speaker meeting on Thursday, November 14, 2024, in the German Bank Barn beginning at 7 p.m. The facility is wheelchair accessible.
Video excerpts from interviews with Greencastle-Antrim WWII soldiers, recorded during speaker meetings in the early 2000s and during Old Home Week Reminiscing interviews, will be shown. The interviews will complement Allison-Antrim Museum’s uniform collection of Greencastle-Antrim World War II Soldiers exhibition. The interviews were conducted by the late Ted Alexander, Ben Thomas, and Justin Mayue. The interviewees were John Kinney, John L. Acker, Jr., John Wine, Tom Fox, Harold Zimmerman, Robert Goetz, Ed Bearss, Robert Overly, Clement Leone, and William A. Diehl, German POW. Clyde Stair, George Mace, Bill Bisner, and Bob Shriener, were all members of the Atomic Veterans Association.
World War II Exhibit - October & November & December
Allison-Antrim Museum, 365 South Ridge Avenue, Greencastle, Pennsylvania will have as its Fall exhibit its collection of Greencastle-Antrim’s WWII veterans’ collection. It will feature uniforms, personal items, and memorabilia which belonged to Greencastle-Antrim men and women, all members of the Greatest Generation. The items are from the museum's collection.
Items on display include the flight logs and flight stopwatch used by LCDR Richard H. Gingrich. Memorabilia from the Home Front includes, among other things, Civil Defense handbooks and an armband, ration stamps, and a U.S. Bonds portfolio. Among the servicemen and women, whose items are on display, are Richard Gingrich, Richard Robinson, John Kinney, Glen Cump, Ramer Shrader, Unknown U.S. Marine, George F. Gearhart, Charles A. Fetterhoff, Richard H. Werder, Max Izer, David Earl Reichard, Master Sgt. Wilbur G. Sell, John L. Acker, Jr., Harold Hoffman, Harold M. Zimmerman, Sr., William A. Diehl, a German POW; Charles Fetterhoff, Sr., William Max Izer, Ramer Shrader, Myriale Stover, and three brothers Earl Harbaugh, Paul Harbaugh, Clarence Harbaugh, William B. Kline, William C. Woller, and two women U.S. Navy Captain Lois Elliott Harrel who also served in the U.S. Army Nurses Corp.; and nurse Col. Lorraine Pensinger Phillips who served in the Army Medical Corps. Additionally, Phillips served in the Navy and the U.S. Air Force.
