Ancilla College recently honored two individuals by naming classrooms after them. Dr. Otis Bowen and Jim Hardesty each have a plaque hanging outside two rooms to commemorate them. Continue reading
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The Fire Mission Controller – Part Two
Generations the Magazine recently presented an article on Jim Hardesty of Hamlet, a World War II veteran. The article chronicled Hardesty’s Army service during that war, and this week WKVI is presenting excerpts from that article.
Hardesty and his group landed in Swansea, Wales, and relocated to the south of England. Hardesty detailed his travel from the states to England.
“We boarded a cargo ship to take us across the Atlantic,” said Hardesty. “It took two weeks in rough North Atlantic weather worrying about submarine attacks. Nothing much happened except being sea sick. I was never so glad to see land in my life.”
