NUANGOLA MEMORIES!

   MONDAY, MAY 6TH., 2019
    NUANGOLA MEMORIES!

   A hero came home to Luzerne County
Sunday.
   Lt. Col James Harvey, 95-years-old,
spoke before a crowd of well wishers
at the Wyoming Valley Airport in
Forty Fort.
   Harvey is one of the few surviving
members of the famous Tuskegee
Airman, a unit made up entirely of
African Americans.
    He flew a fighter jet in Korea and
was the first winner of the Military's
Top Gun competition.
     Although he was born in New
Jersey he was raised in Mountaintop.
His home was in Nuangola, which was
known as Nuangola Station at that time.
      He remembers P-40 fighter planes
flying over his childhood home as his
inspiration to become a pilot.
      As it happens those planes were
flying out of the Wyoming Valley
Airport which was a base during
World War II.
     He enlisted right after graduation
from Nuangola where he was Class
President and Valedictorian!
     But when asked what he remembers
most about Nuangola he thought for a
moment then answered "The winters."
"40 degrees below zero" he said.
     He also said life was good there
with nice neighbors and never any
hint of prejudice!
     He and the family left the area
after he returned from Korea but
his memories of Mountaintop are
all good ones with the possible
exception of some cold winters!
     Hope he knows how much his
home appreciates his service and
that all his NEWS is good!