Remembering Madison’s World War II hero Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr.

Kathy Egan news@greenepublishing.com Before U.S. involvement in World War II, Madison's Colin P. Kelly, Jr., having recently graduated from West Point and been promoted to Captain, was stationed in what was considered a top-notch location, Hawaii. As fate would have it, before the U.S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Kelly was reassigned to the Philippines, as part of the 19th Bomb Group. Then, just three days after the start of the war, on Dec. 10, 1941, Kelly's squadron was ordered to