Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania
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Nanty Glo is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania metropolitan statistical area. The population was 2,734 at the 2010 census. The name co
An aerial view of Nanty Glo
A small section of Nanty Glo seen beyond "Lake Heisley". The pond, part of a mine water reclamation project, occupies part of what was once the above-ground works of Heisley Mine.
Coal pickers like this one could make as much as a dollar a day salvaging usable coal from the mountains of refuse, coal that the mines rejected as second-rate; this photo was taken in 1937 at Nanty Glo's Springfield Mine, and is now in the Library of Congress collection.
Boyd Wagner
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Lieutenant Colonel Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner was an American aviator and the first United States Army Air Forces fighter ace of World War II.
Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania
…Charlie Metro, major league baseball player/manager Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner, first flying ace of World War Two What is now Nanty Glo borough originated in the 1890s and was called "Glenglade." By 1896, the community was a lumber…
Major Boyd Wagner
Original Hangars and Flightline - Thirteenth Air Force (Clark Freeport Zone)