Scroll of Honor – Heyward Hunter Fellers
Into Germany Written by: Kelly Durham The graduation day forecast for Clemson was for mild weather with a high only in the mid-seventies, just right for the planned ceremony in…
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Into Germany Written by: Kelly Durham The graduation day forecast for Clemson was for mild weather with a high only in the mid-seventies, just right for the planned ceremony in…
Icing Written by: Kelly Durham Boyd Preston Lawhon, Jr. wasted no time. He enlisted in the Army Air Force just six days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor yanked…
‘This Was a Man’ Written by: Kelly Durham Richard Worrell Kapp, Jr., “Dickie” to his friends, was impressing people long before he arrived on the Clemson College campus. Kapp was…
The Purple Heart Battalion Written by: Kelly Durham Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, General Delos Emmons, the military governor of the Hawaii Territory, supported placing Japanese-Americans in internment camps…
Takeoff Written by: Kelly Durham The missions flown by the heavy bombers of the 8th Air Force were fraught with dangers. Mechanical failures and equipment malfunctions were always a hazard…
Navy Doctor Written by: Kelly Durham Guy Benjamin Taylor of Lexington entered Clemson in 1912. Upon completion of his junior year in the spring of 1915, Taylor enrolled at the…
Namesake Written by: Kelly Durham Like his namesake, the legendary Swamp Fox of Revolutionary War fame, Francis Marion Zeigler of Denmark seemed destined for renown as a warrior. As a…
Take the High Ground Written by: Kelly Durham Richards Daniel Van Allen reported for active duty with the United States Army in March 1942. He attended basic training at Camp…
Storm Clouds Written by: Kelly Durham When Robert Earle Agnew arrived on the Clemson campus in 1937, the storm clouds of war were gathering. In China tensions with Japan erupted…
The Global Pandemic Written by: Kelly Durham From early 1918 to mid-1920, the Spanish Flu epidemic raged across the world, infecting 500 million people and causing an estimated 50 million…
From Civic Leader to Service Member Written by: Kelly Durham John Paterson Hetrick made his way to the Foothills of South Carolina from his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study…
Trained for War Written by: Kelly Durham Lester Laneau “Pete” Miller was born in the Dillon County community of Hamer. He attended public schools in Dillon and entered Clemson in…
Tank Commander Written by: Kelly Durham In September 1944, Allied forces in France were attacking across a broad front, slowly pushing stubborn German defenders back across France toward the Rhine…
Occupation Relocation Written by: Kelly Durham The war was over and it seemed as though much of the world was migrating. Civilians chased from their former homes by authoritarian regimes…
Presidential Mission Written by: Kelly Durham Shortly before a scheduled mission to the western United States, Air Force Captain Kevin N. Earnest and his wife Carol dropped by Summerville to…
Tinian Written by: Kelly Durham The fifteen islands of the Mariana archipelago include Guam, Saipan, and Tinian. They lie in the North Pacific Ocean 1,500 miles south-southeast of Japan, 3,700…
En Route Written by: Kelly Durham Major Bill Worthy’s orders carried him to Bangkok, Thailand en route to his new duty station, the Royal Thai Air Force Base at Takhli. …
“One of Our Finest” Written by: Kelly Durham The war in Europe had been over for nearly a month, but the war in the Pacific appeared to be as vicious…
“Defining Moment” Written by: Kelly Durham David Aiken Crawford, Jr. was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. David A. Crawford, Sr. of Winnsboro. In 1941, he graduated from Mount…
Dive Bomber Written by: Kelly Durham Dive bombers, like those flown during World War II in the Pacific Theater by Navy and Marine Corps pilots, were considered more accurate than…
The Critical Moment Written by: Kelly Durham William Hunter Carson of Orangeburg was a member of the Class of 1942, the first cohort to graduate from Clemson College after America’s…
“One of Our Best Boys” Written by: Kelly Durham Jesse Franklin Gibson came to Clemson in 1936 from the crossroads community of Centenary. An engineering major, Gibson joined the Swamp…
Leader Among Leaders Written by: Kelly Durham Thomas Archie Scott was a flyer even before he entered the military. At Clemson, Scott was a member of the Flying Cadets, learning…
Inside the Reich Written by: Kelly Durham By the spring of 1945, the Germans, pinched from both the east and the west, were facing certain defeat. Even with their homeland…
First Night Written by: Kelly Durham At the end of the 1942-43 academic year, David Lawrence Alexander, Jr. and the rest of his Class of 1944 bade farewell to the…
Rammabschuss Written by: Kelly Durham Charles Edward Coleman and Willi Maximowitz never formally met, but their encounter in the unfriendly skies over wartime Germany would have tragic results. Coleman would…
“…Never Was a Night so Black…” Written by: Kelly Durham He is little known today, but at his death in early 1943, Benjamin Franklin Robertson, Jr. was arguably Clemson’s most…
Clemson to Annapolis Written by: Kelly Durham McFaddin Moise of Sumter began his collegiate career at Clemson College enrolling in the late summer of 1940. He was a member of…
Rainbow Warrior Written by: Kelly Durham Like the other members of his Class of 1944, Henry Milton Laye, Jr., a mechanical engineering major from Seneca, had his collegiate career interrupted…
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Conflict and Confusion Written by: Kelly Durham We know precious little about Malcolm Brodie Edens, a member of Clemson’s Class of 1947. The 1939 Taps lists him as a member…
Patton’s Reply Written by: Kelly Durham It had seemed as if the Germans were on their last legs, as if they might be defeated and the war in Europe ended…
Epinal Written by: Kelly Durham On a plateau 100 feet above the Moselle River near the village of Dinozé in northeastern France, rows of white markers stand vigilant witness to…
Lone Ranger Written by: Kelly Durham They called themselves the “Long Rangers” because of the vast distances so many of their missions covered. Flying over the trackless Pacific Ocean, the…
“The Martyr Who Died for Us All” Written by: Kelly Durham Of the nearly five hundred names listed on Clemson University’s Scroll of Honor, none has been more widely reported…
The Longest Battle Written by: Kelly Durham In the autumn of 1944, after its rapid sweep across France, the American Army reached the German frontier. Confronted with the well-prepared and…
Missed Rendezvous Written by: Kelly Durham On Wednesday morning, October 3, 1945, Rebecca Lane Horton and her sister-in-law Jennie Horton departed Clemson for the long drive to Fayetteville, North Carolina. …
The Deadlier Opponent Written by: Kelly Durham Claude Rothell, Jr. came to Clemson College from Saluda County as a member of the Class of 1943. His class was the last…
Attack on Pagan Written by: Kelly Durham In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Navy established a garrison at the recently constructed airfield on Pagan Island, one of the volcanic islands in…
Heavy Fighting, “Light” Casualties Written by: Kelly Durham Newspaper headlines in August of 1968 told of more than six thousand enemy casualties over an eight day span of heavy fighting…