Hanna Basin Museum
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      • Love, Michael V. Killed In The Line Of Duty
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      • Lucas, Bernard R. Killed In Action World War II
      • Lucas, William C. Died of Wounds Recieved In Action World War II
      • Luoma, Arvo A. Killed in Action World War II
      • McAtee, William J. Killed in Action Vietnam
      • Saari, John Killed in Action World War II
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    • A History of the Hanna Coal Miner from 1868 to 2017: Bob Leathers' Notebook
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      • April 3, 1908 Chums From Boyhood Died Side By Side
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      • 1908: Newspaper Articles from The Wigan Observer in England About the March 28, 1908 Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna
      • Death of Noah Young - State Mine Inspector for the 1908 Explosion of Mine No. 1
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  • Gallery
    • 1889-1912: ​ Elmer Larson - The Butvier Collection from Sally Hafdell and David Eriksson in Sweden
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    • 1963 October 2: A Large Cattle Drive from Palm Livestock Company at Elk Mountain ​ to Hanna's Union Pacific Railroad Stockyard
    • 2017 April 18: Un​ion Pacific Steam Engine 844 Stopped at Hanna, Wyoming
    • 2019 May 17 and May 4: Big Boy​ 4014 and Engine 844 Were Running the Rails Again
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  • Notebook

William Clarence. Lucas, Army Second Lieutenant 

Images and notes from the Hanna Basin Museum with contributions from Bob Leathers

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Let Us Remember
Army Second Lieutenant William Clarence Lucas
Killed In Action World War II


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Lt. Clarence W. Lucas (UPCCEM, Oct. 1944)
Death of Lt. Clarence William  Lucas
 
Mr. And Mrs. Joseph Lucas of Hanna have lost two sons in action within the past year. On August 18 they received word that Lt. Clarence W. Lucas died of wounds on July 14 while serving with the American infantry forces in France. Tech. Sgt. Bernard R. Lucas, whose picture and citations appeared in the June issue of our magazine, was killed on August 1, 1943, while on a bombing mission over the Rumanian oil fields. 
 
Lt. Lucas, born at Hanna April 20, 1918, was graduated from the Hanna High School in 1935. He was employed at the Hanna mines from 1935 to 1941, when he entered the University of Wyoming, graduating with honors and his B.A. degree in law. He entered the army on April 6, 1943, and later was commissioned a second lieutenant at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. Before going overseas in April, 1944, he was stationed at Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky. 
 
The two brothers are survived by their parents, one brother, Vincent, of Hanna, and three sisters, Eileen and Mrs. William Hapgood, of Hanna, and Mrs. William Lowe, of Winton, to all of whom goes our deepest sympathy. This nation will long remember these young men who gave their lives in a just cause—one of the noblest sacrifices made by man.
 
From an industrial publication published by the Ohio Oil Company, we reproduce a story of what is happening day by day in American homes, a story sad indeed but poignantly beautiful:
 
“So the war will be over by July?…by September? No later than December?
“For one boy it ended…yesterday.
 
“A girl will put away his letters and her dreams. A mother will, for the last time, straighten up a room that she was keeping just as it was till he came home. A father will find himself grown older and more tired.
 
“When this boy fell, part of America fell with him. For he was an American, and the strength of this land is the strength of the people. By each man that falls, we are made poorer. All else we lose can be replaced, but human life…never.
 
“Who will hesitate to sacrifice while men yet die that you and I may still be free?”
 
 (UPCCEM, October 1944) 

Second Lieutenant William C. Lucas, age 27,  from Hanna, Wyoming died of wounds received in combat on July 14, 1944 while serving with the  331 INFANTY, 83rd DIVISION U.S. ARMY  in France.   William was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lucas.  He was born in Hanna April 20, 1918 and graduated form Hanna High School in 1935.  He was employed by the Union Pacific Coal Compay from 1935 to 1941.  He enrolled in the University of Wyoming in 1941 and entered the army on April 6, 1943. 

William's brother, Sergeant Bernard R. Lucas was killed in action on August 1, 1943 while on a bombing mission over the Romanian oil fields.  Mr. and Mrs. Lucas lost both William and Bernard in World War II.

 William C. Lucas  is buried in the Hanna Wyoming Cemetery, in plot 218.

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