[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 57 (Friday, March 26, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E303]
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  CELEBRATING THE 96TH BIRTHDAY OF WWII VETERAN AND EL DORADO NATIVE, 
                        NOEL KENNY, CALAWAY, JR.

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                          HON. BRUCE WESTERMAN

                              of arkansas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 26, 2021

  Mr. WESTERMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 96th 
birthday of Fourth District resident and World War II veteran, Mr. Noel 
Kenny Calaway, Jr. A longtime El Dorado resident, Mr. Calaway served as 
a Navy radioman on a patrol yacht in the Hawaiian Islands.
  Born in El Dorado on April 19, 1925, Mr. Calaway graduated from high 
school in May 1943. He immediately went to work as an oil rig builder, 
but he received his draft notice on October 16, 1943, and reported for 
basic training at San Diego, California, and then a 20-week radio 
school in Boulder, Colorado. After arriving at Pearl Harbor in 1944, 
Calaway spent more than a year patrolling the Hawaiian Islands aboard 
an armed patrol vessel tasked with monitoring the area for submarines 
following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. While the patrol yacht 
was armed with various anti-aircraft guns, he also radioed signals to 
U.S. warplanes, assisting American pilots with navigation in the 
region.
  Following his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he made him home and 
raised his family in El Dorado, Arkansas, where he remains one of the 
best examples of our nation's greatest generation. I take this time 
today to honor the life of service exemplified by Mr. Calaway, and I 
ask that our nation join me in wishing him a happy 96th birthday. I 
thank him and his family for their dedication to our fellow citizens 
and the cause of liberty.

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