Hillsboroâs C.S. Bell Company provided materials for D-Day operations Pictured is one of the C.S. Bell Company s Navy Bells. (Submitted photo) D-Day and Memorial Day are significant in United States history, and both are directly linked to The C.S. Bell Company in Hillsboro, Ohio.
Noted historian Jean Wallis pointed out in her 1970s research the implications of The C.S. Bell Company supplying tens of thousands of bells to the allied forces during World War II.
‘The most famous bell that the company made,” Wallis wrote, is “a nine and three-quarter inch bell weighing 20 pounds and known as the invasion bell.
D-day and Memorial Day are significant in United States history, and are directly linked to the C. S. Bell Company in Hillsboro.Noted Hillsboro historian J