My earlier post about SSgt. John (‘Jack’) Urbank from 2017, and again in 2020 has just been updated with some new (old) information.

The information I received from Gary Grand included some newspaper clippings from Jack’s local newspaper, the Akron Beacon Journal. I completely overlooked the attachments at the time and only noticed them when I was contacted about Jack again.

It includes a piece from 1963 when he attended the première of The Longest Day, an interview from June 1964 about his D-Day experiences 20 years earlier, and an interview with his wife Edna Urbank from 1990 about her wartime job as a riveter at Goodyear Aircraft.

The picture on the right is from the Akron Beacon Journal, June 6, 2014. 

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