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01/03/2012

Then and Now: Wilcox Field, Plains, PA

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This is a scan from the July 8, 1918 Wilkes-Barre Record sent to me by my friend Bob Corcoran. It's a photograph of the Lieut. John V. Curry Memorial Service at Wilcox Field in Plains. There's no such field anymore, but Bob showed me a spot he think could be the location shown in the newspaper. I think Bob's right. Click to enlarge and look at the house at the top right with the barn-shaped roof. Then check out the photo below, snapped 94 years later. The house to the right of the evergreen with the green facing looks like the same building.

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Posted by at 06:45 AM in 28th Infantry Regiment, Bob Corcoran, Lieut. John V. Curry, World War I |

Tags: 28th Infantry, Black Lions, First Army Company E, Lt. John V. Curry, Memorial Service, PA, Plains, WW1

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Isabella Bannerman

That's got to be the same house. Good detective work!

Posted by: Isabella Bannerman | 01/03/2012 at 06:36 PM

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