LuVerne Soldier Cited For Bravery.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Roy Brayton of Luverne, received word this week from their son, Kenneth, serving somewhere in the Solomons, that his detachment had received a citation for bravery in action in the Pacific Islands, and that he had received a personal citation at the same time. Kenneth has been in Australia the past year. He has a brother, Walter, now serving in Camp Blanding, Florida.
Source: The Algona Upper Des Moines, Thursday, March 11, 1943