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Drexel Eugene Poynter 1914 - 2000

Drexel Eugene Poynter of Pensacola, Escambia County, FL was born on August 13, 1914, and died at age 85 years old on June 18, 2000. Drexel Poynter was buried at Barrancas National Cemetery Section 37 Site 566 Naval Air Station, 1 Cemetery Road, in Pensacola.
Drexel Eugene Poynter
Pensacola, Escambia County, FL 32506
August 13, 1914
June 18, 2000
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  • 08/13
    1914

    Birthday

    August 13, 1914
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: CAPT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii, Korea, Vietnam
  • 06/18
    2000

    Death

    June 18, 2000
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    Barrancas National Cemetery Section 37 Site 566 Naval Air Station, 1 Cemetery Road, in Pensacola, Fl 32508
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In 1914, in the year that Drexel Eugene Poynter was born, in August, the world's first red and green traffic lights were installed at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland Ohio. The electric traffic light had been invented by a policeman in Salt Lake City Utah in 1912.
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In 1945, at the age of 31 years old, Drexel was alive when on February 19th, US Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Iwo Jima began. Lasting 5 weeks, it was some of the bloodiest and fiercest fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II. The occupying Japanese forces were heavily armed and there were 21,000 Japanese soldiers on the island at the beginning of the battle. Only 216 Japanese soldiers were captured afterwards - the rest had been killed in action or committed suicide. 6,800 American soldiers died but the Americans took control of the island.
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