More than 70 years later, two Nebraskans killed in WWII will be buried at home
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Steve Liewer
Bernard Doyle joined the Navy in 1940 soon after graduating from high school in Red Cloud, Nebraska, to earn a paycheck and escape his family’s Dust Bowl-ravaged farm. Tech High School graduate Melvin Anderson quit his steady job with an Omaha dry cleaner to enlist in the Army a few months after Pearl Harbor.
Neither came home from World War II. Doyle died Dec. 7, 1941, aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma, sunk by Japanese torpedoes in the first minutes of the Pearl Harbor attack. Anderson died along with another soldier on Nov. 25, 1944, when a German artillery shell hit his tank during the long, ugly battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany.
Their families never knew for certain what happened to them — only that they were gone. Neither man’s body was ever identified.
Until now.
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