Kermit Beahan
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Kermit King Beahan was a career officer in the United States Air Force and its predecessor United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He was the bombardier on the crew flying the Boeing B-29 S
Beahan in 1945
Shelby Foote
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Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was an American writer and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume h
Kermit Beahan
…was survived by his wife, the former Teresa Lavery of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lavery had a previous marriage, from 1944–46, to Civil War historian Shelby Foote after having met when Foote's artillery unit was deployed to Northern Ireland. Foote had spent six years in the US military and was tasked with making…
Foote in 1975
Letter from Foote to childhood friend Grant Stockdale (1962)
Foote's longtime home at 542 East Parkway South in Memphis
Shelby Foote historical marker, Greenville, Mississippi (2019)