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Show THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS IIVolume II, Issue X Page 5 15 May 2000 Utah Family Had 8 Reasons to Celebrate By Michael Nakoryakov For the Hislop family, World War II did not end on V-J Day, or on any other date with a 50th-anniversary celebration this year. “For us, the war ended on Christmas Eve of 1945, when all eight brothers who just came from the service gathered for dinner at our family house in Huntsville,” said Sherman Hislop, a retired Air Force pilot who now lives in Provo. “We began to argue which service was more important, and I guess we got pretty loud, so my dad said to my mom, ‘Listen to all that ruckus, Mable. Doesn’t it sound good? The war is finally over.’” During all the long months Mable Hislop’s sons spent at war, she sent each of them a letter every week. Her letters had to go to nearly every part of the world. Put together, wartime biographies of the eight Huntsville natives could serve as a textbook of U.S. participation in World War II—in the Pacific, in Europe, in Asia, and back in the United States. Jack Hislop spent 4 ½ years in Lowell Hislop, who served on a destroyer escort in the Pacific, was in several major battles including the battle of the Philippine Sea. Wendell Hislop spent 1-½ years with the merchant marine, moving cargo across the Pacific. G e o r g e Hislop, the youngest, fought in the Pacific with the Navy and later went to Korea and Vietnam before retiring in 1965. Sherman Hislop was the only one who didn’t leave the United States. In 1944, Dean, Jack and Sherman Hislop of Huntsville, Utah, He spent the war and five other brothers were enlisted to fight in World War II. years in Texas testing new fightJohn Hislop, a Marine, helped er planes, and then stayed with the Air invade several South Pacific islands, Force until 1964. Sixteen million Americans served including the Marianas and Okinawa. Dean Hislop flew 25 missions over in the armed forces in World War II, Germany in a B-17, including four of and a million were killed or wounded. The Hislop brothers emerged virtuthe first five daylight bombing raids ally unscathed. over Berlin. Now, with help of his surviving brothers – George, 66; Lowell, 70; and Que, 79 – 72-year-old Sherman spends most of his free time with a computer, putting together a wartime history of his family, Jack, John, Wendell and Dean died in the past 30 years. There was a strong feeling to get it done, Sherman said. “Not because I feel deprived to stay France and Germany as a sergeant of the second U.S. Army platoon to reach the Elbe River. Que Hislop was a sergeant with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in China and Burma, building the Ledo/Burma road. We wish to pay homage and thank all the veterans who gave us their all so that we might be free! behind when all my brothers went to combat, my job here also was important,” he said. “Primarily, we should do that for our kids who know little about the war years.” Lowell, who still lives in Huntsville and works as manager of the Elks Club in Ogden, said he wholeheartedly supports his older brother’s efforts. “When you are in a war yourself, you see all the horror and death, and you don’t think too much about yourself or about the suffering, and desperation of people who stayed at home,” Lowell said. “Only when you come back [do] you realize how hard it was for everybody.” To Sherman, the men’s parents were the war heroes. “Each day brought news of sea battles from the Pacific, of island invasions, of air raids over Germany, tank battles in France or jungle fighting on the China-Burma road,” he said. “They had at least one son in all those areas, and each day they dreaded the receipt of a telegram from the government many families received.” “Our family certainly was lucky not to lose anyone in that terrible war,” Lowell said. “Hopefully, nothing like that will ever happen again, but if it does, I hope the Hislop family history will be an inspiration for our young. They’ll see we did all we could and won’t do any worse.” Note: This article is being reprinted courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune. The article was first printed August 15, 1995. Picture of the Month Take something special to Mom for Mother’s Day 25% OFF Any Two Loaves Of Bread Expires 5/31/00 392-8801 Phone Orders Welcome Five Points Shopping Center (Next to Key Bank and Harmons) Photo taken by Chris and Chris Brown of Huntsville. T h e O G D E N VA L L E Y N E W S p ri n t s a “P i ct u re o f t h e M o n t h ” i n each m o n t h ’s n ew s p a p e r e d i t i o n . At t h e en d o f t he f o l l o w i n g y ear, a Val l ey cal en d a r w i l l b e p ro d u ced u s i n g t h e s e l e c t e d p i c t u res . T h e cal en d ar w i l l b e m a d e av ai l ab l e fo r p u rch a s e . S o g e t y o u r cam eras ready a n d s t a r t s h o o t i n g ! Or, i f y o u a l r e a d y h av e a fav o ri t e p h o t o , s e n d i t i n . 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