Local notes on military discharge and arrivals in Amarillo
Amarillo brief items list returns from Washington and New York of Betty J. and R. C. Neely Jr with discharge papers, plus assorted visits, births, medical notes, and social updates. Names include H. L. Kearns family, Ordway family, Cullum, Short, Dawson, Key, Zimpfer, Wagoner, Paschal, Melton, Pollan, Reeves, Jouette, Powell, Hilton, Lochridge, Oldham, Ek Watson, and many neighbors and servicemen.
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Betty
R. C. Neely, Jr
Washington
New York
R. C
Navy
H. L. Kearns
Hughes
Roscoe Neely
First to Hit Clark Field
NEA Service recounts the 40th Infantry Division known as the Rattlesnake, landing in the Philippines during World War II. It describes rapid advances from New Britain to Luzon, capturing Clark Field, Fort Stotsenburg, Camp O’Donnell, and Panay, Iloilo, Negros, and other targets, with 5000 Japs killed or captured by June 1.
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40Th Infantry
Luzon
New Britain
Bismarck Archipelago
Talasea
Sunburst
Cape Maskins
Rabaul
40Th
Luvon
Tarlac
Doughs
Clark Field
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Fort Stotsenburg
Camp O'Donnell
Bataan and
Corregi
Fragmented wartime tales of love and disillusion abroad
A veteran narrator recalls soldiers seeking escape in a borderland vacation area. He contrasts fleeting pleasures with broken futures, describing a GI and a local girl who exchange survival wages for affection. The girl repeats Nazi propaganda, challenging the soldier’s grasp of the war’s moral stakes.
Colonel McBride Reverts to Inactive Status in February
Lt. Col. George H. McBride of 1707 North Julian is on terminal leave after six years in the Army Air Forces. He will revert to inactive status in February after 19 months of duty in the Southwest Pacific with his last station on Okinawa. Earlier postings included Fort Knox Kentucky Bolling Field Washington Brooks Field San Antonio and Will Rogers Field Oklahoma City.
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George H. McBride
North Julian
Army Air Forces
Southwest Pacific
Okinawa
Pacific Theater
Fort Knox
Bolling Field
Washington, D. C
Brooks Field
San Antonio
Will Rogers Field
Oklahoma City
Aviation gasoline and toluene output climbs 1941–44
U S production of aviation gasoline and toluene increased from 19 million barrels in 1941 to 196 million barrels in 1944, reflecting wartime expansion of fuel supply and industrial output.
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U.S
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Jround Town
Garland Wilson
Lee Garland
G. G. Ordway
Harrison
Woodward
Okla
Roy Ann Cullum
University of Texas
Roy Cullum
Polk
R. D. Short
Abbeville
S. C
W. B. Richardson
Parker
Margaret Jane Zimpfer
Boulder
Colo
University of Colorado
F. A. Zimpfer
Tyler
Dorothy Wagoner
Texas Christian University
Ray Wagoner
Nancy Brint
Trinity University At
A. L. Brint
James Paschal
FE. A. Paschal
Ong
E. J. Melton, Jr
Roger
Mary
Richmond
Cal
E. J
Melton
H. J. Wheeler
Taylor
Jack R. Pollan
Western
Harold Eaton
Garnet Reeves
Monroe
Northwest Texas Hospital
Jack J. Jouette
West Sixth
Woodrow W. Powell
Army Tech Village
Bob Cathy Ward
West Thirteenth
Ruben E. Hilton
van Buren
Henry Lochridge
North Fillmore
Raymond Oldham
Clovis
Clark Gamble
Myron D. Ingalls
Pork
Max Ek Watson
Hayden
K. Bert
Houston
Sally Corbitt
Watsons
Pasadena
Amarillo
Gy “Clemmons
Joe Stenans
E. C. Nelson
Sam Lewis
William S. Sade
Rantoul
O. L. Miller
Madison
Corporal Sade
Chanute Field
J. M. Tolbert
Paul Skillman
West Eleventh
R. H. Rietman
Wichita
Henry Rietman
Belleview
W. A. Glovier
W. W. Lewis
Canadian
Buford Avery
West Ninth
Lynn
Ray McManus
Los Angeles
Ray
West Twentieth
Woodrow Baldwin
Ledia Baldwin
West Eighteenth
Northwest Texas Hospital News
Ramona Molina
Ashtola
Ernestine Fuqua
North Highland
Ollie Davenport
East Fourth
James H. Ralough
East Tenth
Russell Kelp
Stratford
Grady Mosely
North Bivins
Ernie Glenn Krampe
Sunray
Mary Nell May
Route 3
R. A. Robinson
Panhandle
E. M. Hill
North West Fifth
A. C. Nichols
North Cleveland
Wanda Ruth Brown
South Garfield
Sinal Waterson
Dawn
Patricia Diane Cope
Gene Groom
Gene
E. V. Groom
West Sixteenth
Clifton Oliver
Clifton Oliver, Jr
Oliver
J. E. Hudson
Greenville
R.S. Thompson
H. W. Barcus
C. Homer Wileman
Mr. Barcus
Wileman
Abe Martin
Lipscomb
J. H. Martin
Angie Wolforth
Pampa
John D. Copeland
Seattle
Linda Lou Kirk
Andy H. Brown
Louisiana
Elizabeth Urquhart
Hattie Towell
Dallas
James Lankford
North
Kentucky
Lankford
Grady Lasiter
Vernon
W. W. Atwood
West Seventeenth
Donald Lewis
Donald
Denver
Amarillo Army Airfield
D. N. Rogers
Gene Rogers
Leonard
Morris Bankhead
Maryland
Cliff Rodgers
C Lipscomb
R. R. Davis
Melba
Dorothy
Bobby
Grand Prairie
Mr. Davis
Pato Duro Ice Company
Lamar
Irene Kiser
Amanda Mims
Otho W. Mims
LeBess Childers
Ben Beets
Johnson
Knoxville
Tenn
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital News
Sophie Hoarel
East Seventh
G. L. Bowden
North Sloan
B. E. Williams
Lakeview
Eva Curb
Happy
Edward Smith
North East Tenth
Louise Faherty
North Harrison
Ruby McWharton
North Tyler
Louise Clege
North East Seventh
Roy Welcher
Claude
Mary Shelley
B. C
NEA
Beethoven
Hitler
Arkansas
Heath's
Heath
Blondie
Dagwoc
Jane Arden
Pop
Bor
Pat
Major
Ean
Prince Rukuhito
Itisa
LSO
Rukuhito
Heck
Rome
Koo
McBride
Optometrist
Polk St
Suml Kia
Wesel
Sumlakia
Cretney Drug Store
Cretney
National
Atkinson Drug Co
Amarillo Hotel
Helen Wickland
Mary Miner Goodwin
A. J. Kelly
Daya
P. O. Box
Ae US Chiropractor
Department D
Kilmer & Co., Inc
Stamford
Conn
Swamp Root
Mexico
Braniff
Braniff Airways
United States
Aerovias Braniff