World War II.The McDonald County Historical Society is asking for the public’s help in identifying 65 veterans — all included in a photo album created during the war, as local boys and young men left their homes in the southwest corner of Missouri to serve their country."There are roughly 115 veterans in the album that needed to be identified," Hazel Sheets, director of the McDonald County Library in Pineville, Missouri, told Fox News Digital. WITH WORLD WAR II AIRMAN'S REMAINS FOUND, RELATIVE FINALLY 'HAS CLOSURE' FOR WHOLE FAMILYWhen she inherited the project — known as the "Bonnibel Sweet Album" — Sheets began submitting photos of the unidentified veterans, one at a time, to the local newspaper and posting them on social media in the hope that someone might recognize a family member or family friend.The McDonald County Historical Society is looking to identify 65 World War II veterans whose pictures are included in an album from decades ago — including this one.
The organization says it needs the public's help. (McDonald County Historical Societ "As of today, 50 of the photos have been named," Sheets said. "Since I started posting the photos, I have received help in identifying 21 [more] of those photos.
There are still about 65 photos that need to be identified." The photos are part of an album compiled by Bonnibel Brown Sweet, who helped run her family's business, a drug store called Brown’s Sundries.