Hopkins Son Died a Hero
Pvt. Stephen Hopkins son of Harry Hopkins died heroically on Namur Island during the Marshall Islands fight. He saved several Marines by shooting a hidden Japanese grenadier and continued to bring ammunition under heavy shelling before being killed while digging a foxhole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
WUPI
Stephen Hopkins
Harry Hopkins
Namur Island
Kwajalein Atoll
Gilbert Bailey
Delphi
Marine Combat
Hosphins
Marshall Islands
Roosevelt
Bailey
Hopkins
Irving Schechter
Service record traces Spooner’s wartime medical training
From General Hospital Springfield Missouri to Will Rogers Field Oklahoma City and Bowman Field Louisville Spooner trained in surgery and Air Evacuation after a prewar job with the O M Franklin Serum Company His wife is listed as residing in Bonham Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page Geral Hospital
Springfield
Spooner
Will Rogers Field
Oklahoma City
Bowman Field
Louisville
O. M. Franklin Serum Company
Bonham
Tex
Wilson Completes Army Weather Training at Vanderbilt
Fontaine B. Wilson son of Mrs Monette Wilson of 213 West Nineteenth Avenue has graduated from a year long specialized college training in the Army Pre Meteorology Training unit at Vanderbilt University Nashville Tenn The program advanced mathematics and physics beyond prewar standards and followed one year of college before enlistment Wilson a Amarillo High School graduate attended Amarillo College a year and a half prior to active service
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fontaine B. Wilson
Monette Wilson
West
Nineteenth Avenue
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tenn
Vanderbilt
Amarillo High School
Wilson
Amarillo College
Lankford Becomes Cadet at Corpus Field Training
Pat A. Lankford son of Mr and Mrs J M Lankford arrives at Corsicana Field from San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center for primary flight training assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat A. Lankford
J. M. Lankford
North Pierce Street
Corsicana Field
San Antonio
Marines Find Pin-Up Girl No Sarong on Kwajalein Atoll
On Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshalls, American Marines found a wounded pin-up girl described as a glamorous dark-eyed beauty named Kanata. They compared her to Dolores Del Rio and noted she wore no sarong or grass skirt, then she was treated at a field hospital. Arbor Day in Texas set for February 22 by Gov. Coke Stevenson. Pvt Mabel Sherwood reassigned to WAC Detachment Hunter Field Ga from North Tyler Street.
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Kwajalein Atoll
Pacific
Kanata
Dolores del Rio
Marshalls
Hubbard
Austin
Texas
Coke Stevenson
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