Tarawa hero Captain Clanahan mails Thanksgiving update
Capt James R Clanahan of Amarillo writes his mother Mrs Billiep Hudnall from at sea during Tarawa fighting. He recalls a Turkey Day dinner, a noon service on the upper deck, and reports surviving another campaign unscratched. He notes the fighting was bitter yet brief and hints at news coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Clanahan
Amarillo
Tarawa
Billiep Hudnall
Aldridge Street
Hudnall
Harmon Wins More Medals At Homecoming Feature
Amarilloan Technical Sgt Crockett Lee Harmon returns home with a Distinguished Flying Cross an Air Medal and three oak leaf clusters as an aerial engineer. His brother Jack T Harmon is a first lieutenant in the infantry stationed at Camp Horn Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crockett Lee Harmon
Stone Is Liberator Pilot Trained at Fort Worth RAF School
Second Lt. Harley L. Stone has graduated from the RAF Pilot School at Fort Worth Army Air Field. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stone of 513 A East Eleventh Avenue and previously trained at Tulsa Oklahoma Independence Kansas and Pampa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harley L. Stone
Fort Worth Army Air Field
Stone
Walter Stone
East Eleventh Avenue
Tulsa
Okla
Independence
Kan
Pampa
Christmas Leaves Bring Many Army Navy Families Home
Amarillo and area service members and relatives gather for holidays. Ensign Hales and others visit family. Lt Gooch, radioman Beyer, and many UT Navy-12 students are home on furlough or leave. A Christmas Pageant is set at Assembly of God Church tonight at 7 30. Texas covers over eight percent of the nation’s area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ensign H. B. Hales, Jr
Miami
Fla
Naval Air Station
H. B. Hales
South of
Amarillo
Elizabeth Hales
Harrison Street
University of Texas
Billy Schell
Thomas Schell
Ong Street
Bill Kendall
W. R. Kendall
East Seventh Avenue
Ken Radey
Madell Radey
James Andrews
T. L. Andrews
Fillmore Street
Royce Cupp
W. J. Cupp
Rusk Street
Truitt Hull
T. G. Hull
Belleview
Donald Edelman
George Edelman
Madison Street
Ensign T
Likins, Jr
Assembly of God
North Pierce Street
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Marine
William C. Harris
Harmon
Ensign
Mrs
Glenn Olson
Arthur Olson
Canyon
J. Carl Hales
Buchanan Street
Ensign Olson
Florida
Connecticut
Joe H. Goodman
van Buren Street
Santa Fe
N. M
Bill Hitch
W. H. Hitch
Milam Street
Oklahoma
Huon
Amarillo High School
J. C. Penney and Company
Guadalcanal
Ph. W. Z. Clark, Jr
New River
N. C
Clark
Marine Air Corps
W. Z. Clark
Taylor Street
Horace B. Gooch
Kirtland Field
Albuquerque
Henry Gooch
Monroe Street
Lawrence Beyer
Rived
Dudley
P. L. Beyer
William O. Harris
Fort Bragg
J. R. Sharp
Oscar Harris
Jackson Street
Thomas Jones
Naval Dental
Baylor University
Edward Watson
Harris
T. B. Jones
Prison Street
Joe Frank Heathington
John Heathington
Clarendon
Brazil
Clarendon High School
al Clark
Globe News
Brownwood
Vo Oe
Texas
United States
Horace Gooch
Billy Hitch
You
Saratoga Cafe
Victory Buses
Fillmore
Herbert Drug CO
Prescription
Ev v
Diamond Shop
Borger
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