Honoring ‘Our Guys’ – Mill Creek students pay tribute to B-17 crewmen killed in 1944

Posted by John Small | May 26, 2021 | Feature News, Main News

A B-17 bomber similar to the one pictured here crashed in Mill Creek during a training mission on Feb. 12, 1944, killing all but one member of its 11-man crew. A group of students at Mill Creek have spent the past two years working towards creating a monument to the fallen heroes; a ceremony dedicating […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Honoring ‘Our Guys’ – Mill Creek students pay tribute to B-17 crewmen killed in 1944

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