World War II Bomber Crash
On January 20, 1944, a B-24 bomber from Pocatello Army Air Base crashed near Arbon Valley during a training mission.
War & military service.
Soldiers and sailors from the valley, the draft, war work at home, decorations, and the veterans remembered.
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Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
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A Pauline sailor's war diary outlives him and his destroyer
Ralph G. Butler, a son of Pauline homesteaders, kept a diary of the Pacific war that his mother saved after he was lost with the USS Monaghan in a 1944 typhoon, and in 1971 two Idaho State historians readied it for print.
Lieutenant Reese Andersen of Arimo and Arbon Valley dies in Vietnam
Marine Lt. Reese Andersen, twenty-five, of Arimo and Arbon Valley, was killed by an accidental gunshot near Quang Tri in April 1969 and buried at Arimo two weeks later.
Arbon Valley signs up half its people to watch the sky
In the mid-1950s Arbon kept a Ground Observer Corps post under Mrs. Lee Newport, and a Pocatello recruiter held the valley up as a town where half the people had trained as plane spotters.
Arbon sergeant wins the Silver Star at Anzio
An Arbon farm boy who rushed an enemy gun position at Anzio came home wounded with the Silver Star and later made his home at American Falls.
Arbon Valley sailor is Idaho's first choice for Annapolis
As 1944 opened, Congressman Henry Dworshak wrote Chester and Arvilla Smith of the valley that their son Frank Blair Smith, a Navy apprentice seaman, was his top pick among Idaho's candidates for the Naval Academy.
Two Arbon weddings, a Spanish reception and an air corps lieutenant
Within ten weeks of each other in 1942 and 1943, Hazel and Glenn Andersen of Arbon married in Utah temples, and the papers followed her Spanish-costume reception, his air corps years and his return to farm at Arbon.
Arbon farmers form a fire crew, and the county hunts scrap from the air
In the first war year Arbon farmers organized against fire, a county plane spotted old iron on Arbon and Crystal farms, and an Arbon farmer took his neighborhood's scrap money to the soldiers' canteen in Pocatello.
Arbon man's son honored for a Guam rescue, then decorated on Corregidor
In 1942 the papers twice named John R. Breeze, a Marine whose father lived at Arbon, first for pulling two youths from the water at Guam in 1940 and then for a Silver Star won on Corregidor shortly before he became a prisoner of the Japanese.
Arbon Valley's young men go to war, a few at a time
Enlistment lists, Logan society columns and one B-29 pilot's mission log trace some of the Arbon Valley men who put on uniforms in the Second World War, and where the war carried them.
An Arbon Valley wheat farmer tells a federal jury of the Argonne
Fifteen years after the Argonne, Park Lusk of Arbon Valley sued the United States over a war risk claim and walked a Pocatello jury through the advance of September 1918.
Arbon Navy man Jesse Keeler buried at Pocatello with Legion honors
Four years after he went into a veterans' hospital in Washington, Arbon homesteader and Navy volunteer Jesse Keeler came home to Pocatello for a funeral with taps and a Legion salute.
Valley women knit, sew and dance for the Red Cross, then welcome the soldiers home
Through two years of war the Red Cross women of Arbon, Crystal and Pauline sewed, knitted and held suppers for the soldiers, and in October 1919 they gave the returning men a ball at the Crystal hall.
Crystal sits its returned soldiers down to dinner
With the last of Crystal's soldiers home from the war, W. C. and Cora Snyder gave the men, their families and their friends a Sunday dinner at their home in September 1919.
Four sisters from Summit answer the call as nurses
One after another, four daughters of W. A. Nunnelley of Summit trained as nurses, and the papers traced them through a Navy enlistment, the influenza of 1918–19 and a Logan diploma in 1920.
Arbon bids up a cake as the valley opens the Red Cross drive
On one May night in 1918, Arbon outbid the speakers from American Falls for a Red Cross cake while Pauline heard four speakers and Crystal raised its whole quota before going home.
Two Lusk brothers of Pauline marry two Bailey sisters of Arbon
Six weeks after he was drafted in 1917, Park Lusk of Pauline had been promoted twice, and the papers went on to follow him, his brother Dave and the Bailey sisters they married through war, a young wife's death and the obituaries of the 1950s.
Bugle calls at midnight as the valley sends off its draft men
In the fall of 1917 Arbon and Crystal danced, built bonfires and stood for a cornetist's bugle calls to send the valley's first draft men off to Camp Lewis.
Before the draft called them, valley men were already enlisting
Through 1917, while the new draft was still being drawn, young men of Arbon and Crystal walked into recruiting offices at Pocatello, Salt Lake City and Portland, and the papers set down their names a few at a time.