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Veteran's History Project - Lloyd Kermit Nelson

Lloyd Kermit Nelson

Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Corp (ret.)

February 1942 to December 1945

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

Kermit Nelson was raised on a farm southwest of Potter, born into a large family.

From ages 10 to 24, he was a worker on the farm too. His primary summer job was doing the work involving horses. He operated the horse-drawn, one-row cultivator daily, covering seven acres at a time.

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