Barber, Veteran Of Pacific Theater Receives Discharge

Athens Weekly Review
January 10,1946

Barber, Veteran Of Pacific Theater Receives Discharge
W. T. Barber, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Barber of Athens, has received a discharge from the Marine Corps and is now with his wife and daughter, Fan, at their home in Coahoma.
Mr. Barker, who held the rating of corporal, served for two years in the Pacific with the Marine Second Division. He participated in the invasion of the Marshalls, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa, and at the end of the war he was stationed on Saipan. He was sent from there to Nagasaki, Japan, and sailed from Nagasaki for the States. He arrived in San Diego, California, on December 26.
He wears among other decorations, the Presidential Citation and the Expert Rifleman's Medal.
Mr. Barber was engaged in ranching and farming when he volunteered for service in April of 1943, and will return to that business.

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