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Defenders News Promotes NCOs and Air Force Trainees
Pvt Ray Northrup of Higgins promoted to sergeant now serving as a switchboard operator in an infantry unit of the Fifth Army in Italy. Pfc Horace Baxter of Lockney graduates from Harlingen aerial gunnery school and earns a promotion as a new gunner. Warrant Officer Roy Brooks returns to the U S after 26 months in the Southwest Pacific and enters redistribution in Miami Beach. Cadet Major from Groom completes basic flying school at Strother Field and advances to next training for a commission and wings. A sergeant gunner on a B 24 based in England is noted. The piece closes with a remark on the rubber industry supplying war products from wings to cannons.
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Pvt
Ray Northrup
Kate M. Northrup
Higgins
Fifth Army
Italy
Horace EB. Baxter
J. H. Baxter
Lockney
Harlingen
Tex
Army Air Field
Baxter
Roy B. Brooks
U. S. Army
United States
Army Air Forces
Miami Beach
Fla
Southwest Pacific
Verna Brooks
Winter
Oscar Brooks
Amarillo
Brooks
Littlefield
Theodore William Major
Onia
Robert Major
Groom
Strother Army Air Field
Winfield
Kan
Army Air Corps
Amarillo College
Clarence Bednorz
Louis Bednorz
Marfa Army Air Field
Bednorz
Leonard Bednorz
Norfolk
Clifford Bednorz
Army
Iran
Chester Bednorz
Fresno