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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1945
Page
6
Mrs Cecil Allred and her children Milton and Marilyn are spending the week with her parents in Plainview, staying at 310 Tennessee.
Donald Mulkey Bill Spann Bill Snorgrass and Brian Rusk are vacationing in Trinidad. The group includes Donald Mulkey of 1701 Fillmore and Brian Rusk of 3109 Taylor along with Bill Spann of 910 Mississippi and Bill Snorgrass of 1522 Pierce.
The Japanese torpedo attack on the 33 100 ton battleship Pennsylvania near Aug 12 damaged magazines and caused casualties. Vice Admiral Oldendorf and Captain William Moses were aboard when the ship was struck, with fleet destroyers rushing to assist within half an hour.
The Navy released details of a near sink situation when the ship Pennsylvania appeared saved by emergency pumps at Buckner Bay Okinawa after August 12 attack. A Navy photo shows the hull nearly awash with crew pumping water from holds. Despite survival the battleship would not sail to Tokyo for final surrender, though it earned fame for firepower and service in 13 amphibious landings from the Aleutians to Lingayen and Leyte Gulf.
The Stinson four place plane with 125 mph cruising speed and 140 mph full throttle was flown to Colorado for high altitude tests and arrived in Amarillo. Cecil Hunter of Piper sales is using a Cub Super Cruiser three place ship at Municipal Field for demonstration. Another Stinson Voyager 150 was shown at English Field with about 40 people taking rides.
Pfc. C. C. Vandiver of Amarillo is aboard the Queen Mary and due home soon after two and a half years in the service. He trained as infantry at Fort Meade A P Hill and Camp McCoy and served in Belgium Luxembourg and Germany. His wife lives in Amarillo and his parents in Portales New Mexico.
Mrs Virginia Thomas of Post visits Mrs P E Miller at 401 Grand and will stay until Monday. Workers read the Want Ads.
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