- I-280 in Lucas County will be named the “SSG Jack W. Coy Veterans Memorial Highway” in honor of a World War II hero from Oregon, Ohio.
A portion of I-280 in Lucas County will honor a World War II hero from Oregon, Ohio after Substitute Bill 52 was unanimously passed in the Ohio House and Senate.
A section of the expressway between Navarre Avenue and Front Street in Oregon and east Toledo is officially being designated as the “SSG Jack W. Coy Veterans Memorial Highway.”
Staff Sergeant Coy, a tail-gunner in the U.S. Army Air Force, was 20-years-old in February 1944, when the bomber he was in was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Germany…