NEWS of the MERRILL SERVICE MEN
From Merrill Service Men's News
Harold LaBahn, S 1/c, who spent four months with the “seebees” on Guadacanal during the hot fighting, is now back at New Caledonia. His battalion was awarded a Presidential Citation for its work on Guadalcanal. Except for an operation and 4 attacks of malaria, he has been well. For the past eight months he has been servicing construction equipment. When his dad wrote about the bombers overhead here, Harold replied he had “seen as many as 29 overhead and they weren’t our planes. They don’t look so good then.”
Source: The LeMars Sentinel, Friday, April 14, 1944
***Further Research:
Harold Wayne LaBahn was born Apr. 12, 1920 to William A. and Anna M. Tapken LaBahn. He died Aug. 22, 1998 and is buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Eureka, CA.
Source: ancestry.com
