This information is offered FREE and taken from http://www.okgenweb.net/~okcaddo/ If you have arrived here using a pay site please know that this information has been donated by volunteers in a joint effort to provide FREE genealogy material online. ======================================================== Those who served WW II ======================================================== submitted by Caddo County Genealogical Society ccgs73005@yahoo.com unless noted otherwise ======================================================== KEEVER, PFC. WILLARD E. is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Keever of Fort Cobb. He received his education in the Broxton School graduating in 1940. He was inducted into the army on October 19, 1942 at Fort Sill in Lawton and was transferred to the quartermaster corps at Fort Warren, Wyo. KEEVER, PFC. WILLIAM H. The Anadarko Daily News July 1, 1945 page 1 column 1 CITY FIGHTER SETS RECORD IN RYUKYUS An AAF Base in the Ryukyus, Islands, July 1 - (special) - Landing close behind the invading forces, Pfc. William H. Keever, Anadarko, Oklahoma, member of an AAF aviation engineer battalion, was operating his huge earth moving machine within 24 hours as his unit tackled the priority job of reconstructing a captured Jap airfield here. His unit, working round the clock, with its heavy equipment, had the field operating within 10 days. Private Keever and other operators of earth moving machines, bulldozers, scrapers, power shovels and rollers moved 22,000 cubic yards of earth and coral - equal to the capacity of 1,000 gondola freight cars - to complete the vital airstrip that will be one of the main springboards in the serial offensive against the Jap home islands. "I believe we broke the Pacific record on this job," said Private Keever, "but even if we didn't, (can't read) with the air raids and those (can't read) guns working up in front of (can't read), we did a good job." His wife, Bobbie, lives at 316 West Washington Street in Anadarko. His father, L.E. Keever, lives at Fort Cobb. He entered the (can't read) in October 1942. KERLICH, S3U STANLEY LAFE, 26, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Kerlich, Cogar. Kerlich received his basic training at North Base, Norman and is now waiting for his ship to be commissioned at Charleston, S.C. He entered the service in 1942. He graduated from Binger High School and attended State Teacher's College at Edmond for a year. He has been employed by an automobile factory but was farming with his father at the time of his induction. KETNER, CLIFFORD W. (COX) has been stationed with the navy at Hawaii for the past 16 months. He enlisted April 4, 1944, and received his boot training at San Diego, Calif. He attended Star School near Gracemont and was engaged in farming previous to his service with the navy. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Ketner of Anadarko. KETNER, MM3c RAYMOND L., is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Ketner. He entered the navy December 30, 1942 and received his training at San Diego, Calif. and Tibarone, Calif. He has served in the Pacific area and is now stationed at Guriam Samar, P.I., repairing damaged ships. His wife, Mrs. Pauline Ketner, makes her home in Los Angeles, Calif. He attended school at Star, near Gracemont, and was employed in a shipyard in Los Angeles, Calif., at the time he entered service KEYES, PFC. RALPH, 22, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Keyes of Fort Cobb. He has been stationed with the 45th Division. His wife, Juanita, now lives with his parents at the home. He entered the service in September of 1940 with the National Guards. He attended Fort Cobb school. KINDER, jr., PVT. JOHN, 18, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kinder/Kinger Sr. of Cogar. He was inducted into the infantry March 15, 1945 and is taking his basic training at Camp Robinson, Ark. KING, PVT. ELMER G. is the son of Mrs. J. R. Smith of Anadarko and is the brother of Mrs. Clifford Nicholas. He has been stationed at Kerns, Utah and his wife has been making her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He entered the service November 19, 1942 after attending school at Strong and Meridan. He is 27 years old. KING, EM 2c RALPH KARNS, USN, LT. ROBERT THEO KING and S 2-c LELDON CLARK KING, USN, are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Clark King of Alfalfa. Ralph attended school in Gracemont and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He entered the U.S. Navy on June 1, 1942 as an electrician's mate third class. He is in foreign service. Before entering the service he was connected with the Safeway and the Washita Valley Ice Cream Companies. He is married and his wife makes her home in Anadarko. Lt. Robert King attended school at Gracemont and is a graduate of Snyder High School and Oklahoma University. He received the commission of second lieutenant at Fort Knox, Ky., September 11, 1943 and served as battle training instructor in the armored replacement training center there for four weeks. His wife makes her home in Louisville, Ky. Leldon Clark King, the youngest of the three brothers, volunteered for service in the navy before his 18th birthday and received his training at Farragut, Idaho; Memphis, Tenn.; New Orleans, La., and Miami, Fla. He is a seaman, second class, and is now somewhere overseas. He also received his education at Gracemont and Alfalfa. KLINEKOLE, SGT. BRUCE, 23. He was one of those Caddo County boys who fired bullets into the Japs on Corregidor until exhaustion forced the fall of that American fortress. Now in training for the time when he can aid in the liberation of his Indian brother, SGT. DUNLAP KLINEKOLE, 21. Both fighters are the sons of Mrs. Julia Klinekole and the late Gregg Klinekole of Apache. Also in the fight for liberation of their kin are two cousins, PFC. HOUSTON KLINEKOLE and WILLIAM B. KLINEKOLE, F 3C, USN, who recently has been moved from New Caledonia in the Pacific to another allied held island. Bruce Klinekole enlisted in the army in December of 1940 and took his training at Fort Bliss, Texas. He sailed from San Francisco for the Philippine Islands, landing there in August of 1941. In the last message received from the Corregidor he wrote, "My health is good. I am uninjured. I am well. Let the rest of the family know I am okay." Pfc. Houston Klinekole, 29, and William B. Klinekole, 16, are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Klinekole of Apache. Houston entered the army in February of 1943. He attended school at Chilocco. His daughter is with his parents. He is stationed somewhere in the South Pacific. William attended school at Boone. He is single and has been stationed at Farragnt, Idaho. CPL. GEORGE KLINEKOLE is the son of Mrs. Julia Klinekole and brother of Mrs. Ellis Aunquoe of Apache. George attended the Fort Sill Indian School and entered the army in January of this year. He is now stationed somewhere in the eastern war zone. KUYKENDALL, LOIS M., 27, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Kuykendall of Carnegie. She is a member of the WAC detachment of the air base and has been promoted recently from private first class to corporal. Corporal Kuykendall is a graduate of Carnegie High School and Oklahoma A&M college. She was formerly employed as a bookkeeper in the Anadarko Bank and Trust in Anadarko. She attended army administration school at Commerce, Texas before coming to this base and is now serving as a technical clerk at base headquarters. She is stationed at Army Air Base in Blythe, Calif. KUYKENDALL, SGT. TROY is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. S.M. Kuykendall of Cement, with whom he lived until he joined his father in California. He joined the U.S. Army in California and was first stationed at Camp Davis, N.C., and Fort Bliss, Texas. He finished as a cook at bakers school at Camp Jackson, S.C.