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CELEBRATING THE 96TH BIRTHDAY OF WWII VETERAN AND EL DORADO NATIVE,
NOEL KENNY, CALAWAY, JR.
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HON. BRUCE WESTERMAN
of arkansas
in the house of representatives
Friday, March 26, 2021
Mr. WESTERMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 96th birthday of Fourth District resident and World War II veteran, Mr. Noel Kenny Calaway, Jr. A longtime El Dorado resident, Mr. Calaway served as a Navy radioman on a patrol yacht in the Hawaiian Islands.
Born in El Dorado on April 19, 1925, Mr. Calaway graduated from high school in May 1943. He immediately went to work as an oil rig builder, but he received his draft notice on October 16, 1943, and reported for basic training at San Diego, California, and then a 20-week radio school in Boulder, Colorado. After arriving at Pearl Harbor in 1944, Calaway spent more than a year patrolling the Hawaiian Islands aboard an armed patrol vessel tasked with monitoring the area for submarines following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. While the patrol yacht was armed with various anti-aircraft guns, he also radioed signals to U.S. warplanes, assisting American pilots with navigation in the region.
Following his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he made him home and raised his family in El Dorado, Arkansas, where he remains one of the best examples of our nation's greatest generation. I take this time today to honor the life of service exemplified by Mr. Calaway, and I ask that our nation join me in wishing him a happy 96th birthday. I thank him and his family for their dedication to our fellow citizens and the cause of liberty.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 57
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