Information taken from The Portsmouth Times, December 7, 1944

SPLIT ON ARMY/NAVY

Four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe McGraw of Sciotoville, Rt. 2, on the Sciotoville-Minford Road near Camp Bennett, divided on the choice of branches of service.  Two selected the army and two the navy.  Three of the boys are on overseas duty.

First Sgt. Howard Wesley McGraw, 27, is with the infantry in the Pacific.  James Wilbert McGraw, 29, seaman first class serving on a destroyer in the Pacific.  Pfc. Cecil Earl McGraw, 18, seaman second class, lower left is with the infantry in Italy.  Paul Eugene McGraw, 18, seaman first class, has completed gunnery school at Washington, D.C.  He was home on a 10-day leave before leaving for the east coast for his first assignment.