James Salyer

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OIL SPRINGS BOY IS KILLED IN ACTION

    Mr. And Mrs. Ross Salyer of 106 South Wheatland, Columbus, Ohio received a telegram from the War Dept. on March 12, notifying them of the death of their son, Sgt. James Salyer, on March 2, as a result of wounds received in the Italian Campaign.

    James was 28 years old and attended school at Oil Springs, volunteering for service sometime in the year of 1939. He was serving with the 81st Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron in the Po Valley at the time he was wounded and he fought through the North African, Tunisian and Sicilian Campaigns before joining the Fifth Army at Casino. A brother, Woodrow F. Salyer has been a prisoner of the Germans since January 1944 and was with General Patton’s Third Army in Italy at the time of his capture.

Paintsville Herald

Thursday

March 29, 1945