Brothers in Service in the Army Overseas
Two Amarillo area brothers Cpl Otha Bob Bruce and Cpl Johnny J Bruce serve with the Army overseas in Italy and New Guinea. Both trained at camps in Oregon California and California and share a sister Dorothy Rauch Pauline Scott and Ruby Turner. Johnny Bruce has a 14 month old son and is married to Loreine Miller Bruce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otha
Bob Bruce
Johnny J. Bruce
Ira Mae Scott
Travis
Army
Bob
Ordnance Department
Italy
Aberdeen
Johnny
Corps of Engineers
New Guinea
Bruce
Camp Abbott
Ore
Camp Beale
Calif
Camp Stoneman
Loreine Miller Bruce
313 Travis
Dorothy Rauch
Pauline Scott
Ruby Turner
Johnny Bruce
Fort Worth and
Denver
Sergeant Brewer
Fort Sill
Oxhla
New Orleans
Fort Wayne
Ind
Charlotte Wyatt
Kilmer and Humphreys Earn Valor and Duty Notices
Lt George W Kilmer receives the first Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal after 35 missions and Bronze Star for early air combat over France. Sgt Max R Humphreys arrives in Miami Beach for reassignment after 51 B 17 missions in the Mediterranean theater. entered the Army Air Forces in August 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Kilmer
Betty Kilmer
Maryland
Kilmer
90Th Field Artillery Division
France
Max R. Humphreys
Army Air Forces
Humphreys
Mediterranean
Local man Milton Webb assigned to RAF Radio School
Milton M. Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Webb of 904 North Buchanan, has been assigned to the RAF Training Command Radio School at Sioux Falls for training as a radio operator mechanic. He has been in service since September 1942 and previously worked as a machinist helper with the Santa Fe in Clovis and attended Amarillo High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen M. Beene
A. R. Beene
Cleveland
Beene
J. N. Brewer
North East Fourth
Army
Cpl
John Lee Brewer
Pratt
Kans
Howard N. Brewer
England
Sergeant Brewer
Jacquelyn Brewer
Lockney High School
Set
Milton M. Webb
L. B. Webb
North Buchanan
RAF Training Command Radio School
Sioux Falls
8. D
Webb
The
Santa Fe
Clovis
Amarillo
Cadet Lt Caldwell Reports to San Antonio Center
Lt Carol Fornam Caldwell of 702 West Sixteenth reports for duty at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center after being last stationed at Sheppard Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Fornam Caldwell
West Sixteenth
San Antonio
Service News from Camp Chaffee and Elsewhere
Pfc Ruben D Foreman of Camp Chaffee to attend a 16 week pharmacy technicians course at William Beaumont General Hospital El Paso upon completion will return to the medical detachment at Camp Chaffee. Capt John W Puntch arrives in Miami Beach for reassignment after 50 B 17 missions in the Mediterranean theater. Mrs T J Story of Vernon visits Amarillo with her son in law A P Morrow. Fred E Graves on leave visiting Amarillo and to report back December 13 at San Bruno California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruben D. Foreman
A. P. Foreman
William Beaumont General Hospital
el Paso
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Foreman
Station
John W. Puntch
Bonham
Miami Beach
Fla
United States
Puntch
Mediterranean
Amarillo
Fred E. Graves
U.S.N
C. Graves
Harrison
San Bruno
Cal
Returning from Overseas Jack Lyon Navy? Corps of Engineers
Jack Lyon, technician fifth grade with the corps of engineers, is returning after 32 months in the Asiatic Pacific theater of operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Lyon
Corps of Engineers
Mrs Gertrude Kimble Visits With Son
Mrs. Gertrude Kimble of Daihart was reported to have visited with her son, sharing family time and local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Kimble
Daihart
Postwar engines to boost output for faster cross country travel
A traveler says postwar automobile engines will not be smaller but will deliver higher output to support faster speeds on new cross continental roads. She notes visiting friends in Amarillo en route from Memphis where her son Pvt Norman Kimble serves in the Army Air Forces at Blytheville Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Memphis, Tenn
Pvt
Norman Kimble
Army Air Forces
Blytheville, Ark
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J. B. Linn, Jr
Polk
Majors Field
Enid Army Air Field
Okla
Central Flying Training Command
Pacific
James D. Smith
AAF
Southwest Pacific
Philippines
Corporal Smith
Solomons
Rabaul
Netherlands East Indies
North Fillmore
Fort Bliss
First Cavalry Division
Oliver Farm Equipment Company
Seventh Infantry
Seventh
James H. Chandler
K.O
Chandler
Miami
Roy
Broaddus
Buchanan
Ol' Vernon Sez
Oriental Cleaners
Sus
Southern Comfort Corporation
Saint Louis 3
Mia
Marian Humphreys
North Grant
Ations. Lyon
Fred Lyon
States
T. J. Story
Vernon
Inlaw
A. P. Morrow
Hayes
Marie Earle
Herbert Drug
van Buren
Sfee
Perfex Omaha Neer
Peg
Gal
Wieners
Bologn
Colden
Rukor
Wheaties
Canada
Tom Collins
Hi-Ho
Washington
Parsnips
Marvene
Hershey
Sceme Ailiei Atheim
Mann's
Ye Ie
Globe News
Vaughn Plumbing
Pierce
W. O. Allison
Monroe
Liquor Mart
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