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Electronic Technician's Mate Richard Murry Auxier of California served with the U.S. Navy. He was trained to work on radar and became one of two radar technicians on the U.S.S. Preston, a destroyer in the Pacific Theater of operations.

Seaman, First Class Ray Loren Taylor of California served in the Navy Air Corps. He was flight engineer on a Catalina Patrol Bomber involved in Air-Sea rescue operations. He was lost at sea, February 1, 1945, while flying the Hawaiian Islands when his plane exploded and burned. No trace of the crew was ever found. His name in inscribed on the Honolulu Memorial. Ray was the son of Orville Taylor and Ethel Bertha Auxier Taylor.

George Donald Auxier of Kansas enlisted
with the U.S. Navy in July 1942. He served
in Hawaii as Aviation Metalsmith 2nd Class
with Fleet Air Wing II at Kaneohe Bay and
John Rodgers in assembly and repair. He was
discharged in December 1945.

Technician Fourth Grade Eugene Paul Auxier of Kentucky entered active service with the U.S. Army on September 28, 1943 at Huntington, West Virginia. He was a Automotive Parts Clerk with the 355th Maintenance Company Ordnance. He served in the Western Pacific and was at the Philippines Liberation. He received the World War II Victory Medal, Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with 2 Bronze Stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one Bronze Service Star and the Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged at Fort Knox Kentucky on December 31, 1945.

Private James Knox Polk Auxier III of Kentucky served with the U.S. Army in Company E of the 502nd Airborne Infantry Regiment.

Tec 5 Paul Robert Auxier of Kentucky enlisted with the U.S. Army at Gruber, Oklahoma on January 8, 1946. He served with Troop A, 18th Cavalry. He departed for overseas duty on March 4, 1946 and returned stateside on December 21, 1946. He received the World War II Victory Medal, and was discharged from duty on February 11, 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Staff Sargent Henry Lee Auxier of Missouri served with Company B, 110th Engineering Battalion

Seaman First Class Robert Lincoln Auxier of Nebraska entered into active service with the U.S. Navy on May 17, 1944. He was stationed at Navy Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. He served on board the U.S.S. Indiana and at the Personnel Separation Center, US Naval Base, Bremerton, Washington. He received the Asiatic Pacific Area Campaign Medal with 2 stars and the World War II Victory Medal. Seaman Auxier was discharged at Bremerton, Washington on February 4, 1946.

Brother & Sister
Photo taken at their home in Cincinnati, OH
circa 1945
Louise was home on leave from San Diego, CA.
Charles was home on leave from Panama.
Their father was Julian Auxier.

W.A.V.E. Helena Louise Auxier U.S. Navy enlisted in October of 1943 and was sent to Boot Camp at Hunter College in New York, NY "Where we marched in the rain most of the time." She was then sent to Milledgeville, Georgia to what was then Georgia State Collage for Women to train in the Storekeeper School. From Georgia she was sent to the Repair Base in San Diego, California. After her leave at home she went to Los Angeles, California where she was barracked on Cornado Island and was required to communte to work by boat. She was Shopkeeper 2 when she was discharged at Great Lakes, Illinois in February of 1946.

Technician 3rd Grade Charles Stewart "Bud" Auxier U.S. Army entered active duty in February of 1943 and was discharged on January 10, 1946. He was stationed with the 2170th Medical Technicians at Fort Clayton in the Panama Canal Zone.

Staff Sgt. Emmet Elden Davis of Oklahoma
served with the 45th Thunderbird Division,
5th Army. He fought in the invasion of Italy,
landing at Salerno and Anzio. He was awarded
the Silver Star, 3 Bronze Stars, and two Purple
Hearts. He is the son of Will Press Davis, the
grandson of Louisa Brown Davis, and 2nd great
grandson of Nancy Auxier and James Brown.

The Ponca City Times reported "Ponca Citian Stops Nazi Attack at Anzio, Then Goes To Sleep - One Gun Mortar Barrage in Total Darkness Takes Heavy Toll of Enemy, Saves Position. Staff Sgt. Emmet E. Davis of Ponca City couldn't aim his mortar fast enough during a German counter attack on the Anzio beachhead so he just removed the barrel from its aiming mechanism and held it in his hands while shooting. Hampered by total darkness and needing extremely fast fire to cover the area through which the Germans were advancing. Davis opened with a one-gun barrage that eventually broke up the German attack and accounted for heavy enemy casualties. "It was so dark I couldn't see the mechanism" related Davis, who is with an infantry unit in the 45th "Thunderbird" division. "There was no sense in fooling with those scales in the dark.We needed lots of shells to beat off the oncoming Germans, so I held the barrel in one hand and dropped shells in with the other. I had a pretty good idea of the range." "They told me afterward I had fired about 150 rounds in less than an hour. I really don't know how many I shot. I was too tired to care and when the order came through to cease firing, I just went to sleep," the Oklahoma sergeant concluded.

Sergeant Corbett Everett Roberson of Texas enlisted in the
U.S. Army Air Corp in November 1942. He was stationed
at Sheppard Air Base, Wichita Falls, Texas, Laredo Air
Base, Texas and Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi. Corbett,
age 18, a tail gunner on a B-24, was killed in action on
January 24, 1944 when his plane was hit in flight during a
mission over Rumania. His body was first buried in the
military cemetery at Bari, Italy. After World War II the
family was permitted to bring him home to Texas. In
December 1947 his body was brought by train to Spur,
Texas and was buried in the Spur Memorial Cemetery.
He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart which
was given to his mother. Corbett was the great grandson
of Frances Auxier and Henry Jackson Roberson.

Private 1st Class Collis Auxier of West Virginia entered on active duty with the U.S. Army at Clarksburg, West Virginia on November 27, 1942. He left for overseas duty on July 17, 1943 where he was engaged in battles in Northern France and Germany. He returned to the U.S. on August 2, 1945. On November 7, 1945, he was discharged at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. He received the Good Conduct Medal, European African Middle Eastern Service Ribbon, American Theater Ribbon and the World War II Victory Ribbon.

Private 1st Class Delbert Manning Auxier of West Virginia entered on active duty with the U.S. Army on September 17, 1942 at Ft. Thomas, Kentucky. He served overseas from March 3, 1945 to January 21, 1945 in the India-Burma Campaign as a truck driver. On October 27, 1945, he was discharged at Fort DuPont, Delaware. He received the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.

Tec. 5 Garnet Ray Auxier of West Virginia died, at the age of 21, June 19, 1945, while on active duty with the U.S. Army in Bussire, France.

Seaman 2nd Class Hiram Henry Auxier of West Virginia enlisted in the U.S. Navy on July 2, 1945. He was stationed at Naval Training Center Great Lake, Illinois and Navy Air Station, Miami, Florida. He was awarded the Victory World War II American Area Medal. On July 29, 1946 he was discharged at U.S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, Shelton, Virginia.

England 1954

Chief Master Sergeant Reginald Clayton Auxier
of West Virginia retired from the U.S. Air Force in
October 1965 after 24 years of service. He enlisted
before World War II and was stationed at Yuma,
Arizona in 1941 and attended Cadet Pilot School at
Tulare, California, training in cross country and
night flying in Steermens.During his career he was
stationed at Johnson Field in Japan, Riverside in
California; Lake Charles in Louisiana; Upper
Hardford, England; Davis-Monthan Air Force Base,
Arizona; Homestead Air Force Base, Florida;
McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey; Anderson
Air Base, Guam and Keesler Air Force Base,
Mississippi, where he served as Radar School
Instructor. His last assignment was Supervisor
of an Electronic and Armament Shop at Bunker
Hill Air Force Base, Indiana.

1947-1949
Johnson Field - Irmagawa Japan
8th Photo Reconnaissance