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who came down out of the hills waving a white W&L Manufacturing for 12 years
flag. They’d had enough.” The Kenneth Whiting and eventually became vice-
was hit by a Japanese president of the company.
Kamikaze plane on June He later started his own
21, 1945, but survived company, W.W. Steel, and
with only minor damage, retired in the 1990’s, after
continuing operations for working in the industry
the rest of the war. Wayne for 50 years.
was onboard the ship when
the atomic bombs were The three years the West
dropped on Hiroshima and Texas native spent out on
Nagasaki in August 1945. the ocean are a distant
memory. In fact, Wayne
He was discharged from Webb says now he’d like
the Navy on November 8, to be remembered as “just
1945. “I took a train from San Francisco to Amarillo, a plain old country boy.”
then hitchhiked down to Plainview” where his wife
picked him up. He and his wife raised two boys
– David and John. Back in Lubbock, he worked at Wayne went on the 2012 South
Plains Honor Flight with his son
Carl Webb passed away on May 28th, 2018. as his guardian.
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