Missing in action nephew from Dallas trained at Amarillo Field
Mr and Mrs W E Bailey of 315 Maryland Street learn their nephew Carter Junior Gill is missing in action since July 16 on a mission over Germany. Gill who lived in Dallas and trained at Amarillo Field served as a mechanic on a Flying Fortress. The War Department notified his parents of the disappearance.
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W. E. Bailey
Maryland Street
Carter Junior Gill
Gill
Dallas
Amarillo Field
War Department
Germany
Vom Globe-News
Brothers in Service and Heroes of Two Families
In Amarillo area news, Darris and Joe Ernest Merriman, sons of Cecil and Mrs. Merriman, serve in the Navy with duties in communications and radiocommunications aboard ships in the Pacific. Lt. Bob Hasty Sisson, stationed in India, earns the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal for flight leadership and operations. Petty Officer Eugene E. Baker, Seabees, serves in Hawaii after Amarillo High School graduation. his brother Ernest Lee Baker serves with the Infantry in France since D‑Day. A visiting couple, Cpl O Jack Leveritt and his wife, are visiting his mother in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Merriman
North
Cleveland Street
United States Navy
Darris Merriman
San Diego
Navy
School of Communications
Seaman Merriman
Amarillo High School
Southwestern Stationery Company
Joe Ernest Merriman
South Pacific
U. S. Naval Training School of Communications
Los Angeles
Merriman
S. S. Horace Wells
Amarillo College
Merchant Marine
Bob Hasty Sisson
India
Eugene E. Baker
E. E. Baker
Prospect Street
Seabees
Hawaii
Baker
Magnolia Petroleum
Ernest Lee Baker
Infantry
France
War News Briefs From Oklahoma And Overseas
O J Leveritt of 1602 Monroe Street and Corporal Leveritt stationed at Sheppard Field will return to Wichita Falls tomorrow. Burl C Jones wounded in action in the South Pacific after 10 months overseas. Mrs Marie Jones, his wife, reports he rose from buck private to his combat ratings. They live at 711 Houston Street. his mother serves in the Women’s Army Corps and his father lives in Amarillo. Pvt Wilford L Storey, son of Mrs Belva Johnson, is stationed in Australia with the Army Air Corps ground crew.
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Hasty
Blackland Army Air Field
Waco
J. D. Sisson
Ploydada
Amarillo National Bank
O. J. Leveritt
Monroe Street
Corporal Leveritt
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
Set
Burl C. Jones
South Pacific
Marie Jones
Jones
Australia
Wilford L. Storey
Belva Johnson
Belleview
Army Air Corps
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Amarillo
R. B. Moore
Camp Wallace
Clara Finley
South Tyler Street
California
Bantam
Apricots
Ann Sisson
Polk Street
Sisson
Cpl. O
Jack Leveritt
East
Texas
Armour
Ralston
Oxydol
Tomano
Lic Ij
Jemima
L.D. Daw
Kolden
Perick
Aed
KOTEX
Pen Jel Sesi
Bua
Fic
Av Il
Spry O
Joe E. Merriman
Eugene Baker
Earl C, Jones
Wilford Storey
BoxweLl Brothers
DUMAS
Perryton
Spearman
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