Saluting Our Veterans: These Alabama Power Employees Value Their Service
By Gilbert Nicholson, Donna Cope and Carla Davis
Bill Daughtry was trudging around Leyte island, where less than a year earlier during World War II U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur famously waded ashore declaring “I have returned” to the Philippines.
Daughtry was looking for a tree that would make a good pole on which to mount a radio antenna. He had learned the skill of erecting and climbing poles to string wire as a telephone lineman for the Army Signal Corps – a skill he would later use to get a job as a lineman with Alabama Power.
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