A local man is offering families the chance to reconnect with memories of loved ones through photos of ARMCO during World War II. Former ARMCO Plant Manager Jerry Puff:
“Somehow these pictures made their way down to Legion Post 117. They decided about three years ago that they were going to clean out their basement and somebody salvaged this box of pictures and took the box to be and said, here, you’re an ARMCO guy, I think you’d be interested in this and so I took the box.”
Puff did not do much with the pictures for a couple years but has since begun an effort to return the pictures to any interested families of the men in the pictures.
According to Puff, a photographer on staff at ARMCO took pictures of over 60 men in uniform likely for a company publication.
“The photos are 3×5 and some of them have more negatives than others. But they represent 64 families. These are all in their own individual envelopes identifying not only who the person was but what year. Some were taken in multiple years, probably when they got out of boot camp. I think that they published them probably in a periodical that they had.”
People who think that they might have a relative in one of these pictures are invited to call Puff at 724-586-2441.
