Baker brothers serve service overseas long wait for home
Eugene Baker yeoman second class called from Los Angeles to tell his parents he arrived in the United States and will miss Christmas at home. He went overseas two years ago with the 125th Seabee Battalion and served on Okinawa since. His brother Ernest Lee Baker, a private first class, returned to the United States last month from the European theater with the 90th Infantry Division and is now studying electrical engineering.
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United States
Eugene Baker
Los Angeles
E. F. Baker
Prospect
Yeoman Baker
125Th Seabee
Okinawa
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Pfc
Ernest Lee Baker
90Th Infantry Division
Patton
Dallas
Lloyd Ford Discharged From Army Service
Lloyd W. Ford son of Mr and Mrs G C Ford 2505 North West Second has been discharged from the Army at Geiger Field Washington. He enlisted in January 1945 and served as a typist in the administrative branch of the Army Air Forces. He is a former Amarillo College student.
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Lloyd Ford
Lloyd W. Ford
G. C. Ford
North West Second
Army
Geiger Field
Wash
Sergeant Ford
Army Air Forces
Amarillo College
Home Made Tank Rules Out Nazis
A married Russian couple who bought and operated a tank during World War II have been demobilized from the Red Army. Lt. Ivan Boiko and his wife Lt. Alexandra Boiko saved 50 000 rubles to build the home made tank and together accounted for 160 enemy soldiers across campaigns in Poland Germany Romania and Czechoslovakia. The wife commanded the tank while the husband drove.
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Red Army
Ivan Fyodorovokh Boiko
Alexandra Boiko
Poland
Germany
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Navy Gunner Sweet Returns Home After 3 1 2 Years
Gene Sweet a gunners mate second class is home with his mother Mary F E Sweet at 312 North East Fourth. He was discharged recently from the Navy at Norman Oklahoma after three and a half years of service. Most of his time in the Navy was spent on the high seas.
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Gene Sweet
Mary FE. Sweet
North East
Navy
Norman
Okla
High Seas
Prowling teen booby trap backfires at home
In Chicago on December 19 Arnold Olsen, a nine teen war veteran, rigged a three inch shell as a pantry window alarm. The blast wounded fellow veteran Frank Carr with minor cuts, while Olsen praised the success and apologized for not warning him. Carr, a former demolition squad expert, recalled finding unexploded shells in France.
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Chicago
Arnold Olsen
Germany
Young Olsen
Olsen
Frank Carr
Carr
France
Red Cross Workers To Provide Christmas for GI Patients
The Gray Ladies of the Potter County American Red Cross and Amarillo Field Hospital committee will bring a Christmas tree gifts and parties to soldiers confined in the base hospital next Tuesday. Mrs W B Gunn chairs the Gray Ladies with Miss Agnes Ullman in charge of the field hospital program. The Red Cross camp and hospital committee led by Margaret Cannon Boyce coordinates the city wide soldiers program.
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Gray Ladies
Potter County
The
American Red Cross
Amarillo Field Hospital
W. B. Gunn
Agnes Ullman
Red Cross
Red Cross Camp and Hospital Committee
Margaret Cannon Boyce
Supreme Court May Have To Rule on Pullman Sale
Final approval of the sale of Pullman sleeper facilities to a group of 43 U S railroads for 75 million dollars may require U S Supreme Court action. A special three judge expediting court approved the sale yesterday. James P Masterson, a Philadelphia attorney with Otis & Co Cleveland bankers, said an appeal would be taken to the Supreme Court.
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Philadelphia
U. S. Supreme Court
James P. Masterson
Otis & Co
Cleveland
Pullman, Inc
Huckabey Family Reunion Soon At Monroe Address
Merle Huckabey, now stationed at San Diego Naval Hospital, will visit his parents Mr and Mrs A T Huckabey at 1706 Monroe this weekend. His brother Ted Huckabey recently received his Army discharge.
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Pfe
Merle Huckabey
San Diego Naval Hospital
A. T. Huckabey
Monroe
Ted Huckabey
Merle
Army
Kilroy Visits University of Houston During WWII Legend Return
Kilroy visited the University of Houston on December 19, meeting soldiers and leaving signs that read Kilroy graduated here. The famous WWII figure, known for being first in mess tents and chairs, was portrayed as ahead of veterans in this campus visit.
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Houston
Kilroy
University of Houston
Normandy
Saipan
Sydney
New Delhi
C. O
Pacific Atoll
Lonely Island
Gl Is a Real Animal Lover
In Watertown New York on December 19 veteran James Maitland recalls befriending a dog during World War II with the 29th Infantry. He says the dog was picked up in Iceland and smuggled to England, was injured by a motorcycle which Maitland treated, and he has searched without success to locate his canine comrade since leaving the service. He plans to reenlist to try again in European service.
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Watertown
N. Y
James Maitland
29Th Infantry
Maitland
Iceland
England
Mrs Parker Hamilton and Miss Phyllis Spears Visit San Francisco
Mrs Parker Hamilton and Miss Phyllis Spears visit Mrs Hamilton's twin sons Seaman Bill Hamilton and Bob Hamilton in San Francisco California and will be away until January 2.
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Parker Hamilton
North Bivins
Phyllis Spears
Fillmore
Dale Mason To Get Discharge
Cpl. Dale Mason son of Mrs. N G Mason of 1007 Adams is en route to San Antonio for discharge after four years in the Army. He is due home December 24. Mason, 26, served in the European theater two years with an antiaircraft unit in Belgium France and Germany. He landed in the United States Sunday and went to Trenton New Jersey. He is the husband of Sharlene Dunn and brother of Mrs. F L Broaddus.
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Cpl
Dale Mason
N. G. Mason
Adams
San Antonio
Sharlene Dunn
J. H. Dunn
North Taylor
F. L. Broaddus
East Fifth
Mason
Belgium
France
Germany
United States
Trenton
N. J
Mrs J B Clouse Ill At Home In Jefferson Address
Mrs J B Clouse is ill at her home at 709 Jefferson. The brief item notes her condition and residence without further details.
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J. B. Clouse
Jefferson
Man Receives 30 Days For False Fire Alarm
George M. Lisatz, 47, told District Judge Harvey L. Neelen in Milwaukee that after saying he had nowhere to sleep men in a tavern urged him to pull a fire alarm for lodging. He followed through and was jailed 30 days for the false alarm.
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Milwaukee
George M. Lisatz
Harvey L. Neelen
Neelen
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