{"id":2096,"date":"2018-08-11T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=2096"},"modified":"2018-08-12T00:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T05:03:02","slug":"ww-ii-page-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=2096","title":{"rendered":"World War II &#8211; Letters, Articles, Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">World War II<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Links to news articles and Letters Home from service personnel<\/h2>\n<h3>Letters Home<\/h3>\n<p><em>The Terril Record<\/em> was the local newspaper during World War II. The publishers of the newspaper were Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Grow, whose son Pfc. Bernard Grow was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan. He perished in a Japanese prison camp in 1944. The Grows spent the war years publishing extensive coverage of the area service personnel, notices of stationing, leaves, and wartime experiences. They were constant morale boosters for the community which included sending copies of the paper to &#8220;the boys&#8221; stationed around the world. They published snippets of news and letters which &#8220;the boys&#8221; sent home to <em>The Terril Record<\/em> and to families at home. Their publishing efforts have proved to be an extensive archive of Terril WW II history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"star bullet\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters Home A-D<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"star bullet\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters Home E-H<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"star bullet\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Letters Home I-O<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"star bullet\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters Home P-Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"red_star\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grow Letters<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>WWII Stories and Articles<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"red_star.gif\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0 WWII Articles and Stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"red_star.gif\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=918\">\u00a0LeRoy\u00a0Cruse Diary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrilamericanlegion.com\/images\/red_star.gif\" alt=\"red_star.gif\" width=\"21\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Service Photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War II Links to news articles and Letters Home from service personnel Letters Home The Terril Record was the local newspaper during World War II. The publishers of the newspaper were Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Grow, whose son Pfc. Bernard Grow was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan. He perished in a Japanese prison camp in 1944. The Grows spent the war years publishing extensive coverage of the area service personnel, notices of stationing, leaves,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=2096\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2096","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2096\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}