HAVERHILL — Just three months after earning his wings, 22-year-old U.S. Navy Ensign Robert E. McLaughlin of Haverhill was killed when his U.S. Army Corsair F4U fighter plane crashed and
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(Additional photograph below.) Haverhill is getting set to remember and honor a 22-year-old pilot who steered his crippled military plane away from homes and children, giving his life in a little-known crash just before the end of World War II crash off Hilldale Avenue. A monument to U.S. Navy Ensign Robert E. McLaughlin was placed […]
By TONY LARUSSA | The Tribune-Review, Greensburg | Published: March 2, 2021 GREENSBURG, Pa. (Tribune News Service) Like many young people of his generation, David Russell Tyson answered the call to serve his country during World War II when he was still a high school junior. After 77 years and just two days shy of his 95th birthday the Navy veteran finally received his diploma. During a brief ceremony at Tyson s home in McCandless on Feb. 26, North Hills School District Superintendent Pat Mannarino presented him with an honorary diploma from the former West View High School, which became part of the North Hills district in 1965.
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David Russell Tyson and his wife, Jean, with North Hills Superintendent Pat Mannarino on Feb. 26, after receiving an honorary diploma from the former West View High School. Tyson was a junior when he left school in 1944 to enlist in the Navy.
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David Russell Tyson left high school as a junior in 1944 to join the Navy.
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After his discharge from the Navy, David Russell Tyson married Jean Guiden the year she graduated from West View High School in 1952.
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David Russell Tyson displays the honorary West View High School diploma he received on Feb. 26, 2021 – 77 years after he left school as a junior to join the Navy during World War II.