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World War II vet honored with medals Print

Laconia Citizen
October 19, 2010

LACONIA — A World War II veteran received his wartime service medals, 65 years after the war ended.

Herbert Gray received the American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and the Philippine Liberation Medal, in a ceremony held Monday at the Woodside building in the Taylor Community.

Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter hosted the formal medal presentation ceremony.

Gray served in the Army Air Corps, as a radio-operator-gunner, and as a radar operator on anti-sub patrols.