Amarillo Captain Leads St Tropez Invasion After Early Drop
Time report highlights Capt. Jess Walls of Amarillo in the Southern France landings. Paratroopers, aided by French patriots, fought to capture St. Tropez despite rough seas and inland misdrops. Walls praised the effort and described holding the town with locals as German resistance continued.
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Amarillo
France
Aleutians
Time
Yank
Will Lang
Jess Walls
St. Tropez
Koenig
Yellow Beach
Navy
Walls
Jerry
Lang
Richardson Seaman Assigned to Pacific Carrier
Seaman second class Paul Richardson informed his parents that he has been assigned to an aircraft carrier in the Pacific and has gone to sea. He is an Amarillo High School 1944 graduate, 18, and recently spent leave after basic training in San Diego.
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Paul Richardson
Pacific
S. E. Richardson
Louisiana Street
Seaman Richardson
San Diego
Amarillo High School
Return Flight After Brief Bombing Run
The navigator questions distance to Matsuwa and Shimushiru as the crew confirms an hour and one hour twenty minutes. Major Wood orders the return, bombs are secured, and the mission is aborted.
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Matsuwa
Shimushiru
Major Wood
Special House unit to plan postwar agricultural future
A new House committee unit will plan the nation's agricultural future and push farmers toward a business like basis. Chairman Fulmer of South Carolina named Rep Pace as chairman with hearings to start soon, to include Wickard and Jones as witnesses.
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Washington
Fulmer
South Carolina
House Agricultural Committee
Rep
Pace
Georgia
Wickard
Jones
Hope
Poage
Texas
Granger
Utah
Voorhis
California
Wickershal
Oklahoma
August H. Andresen
Minnesota
Murray
Wisconsin
Hill
Colorado
Memorial services for Lt Bechtel in Lubbock Sun
Memorial services for Roy A Bechtel lieutenant junior grade killed in the Pacific June 23 will be held Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church of Lubbock starting at 3 o'clock. Bechtel Navy pilot was killed when his plane was hit by antiaircraft fire over the Marianas Islands and crashed. He is son of Mr and Mrs J B Bechtel of Lubbock and a graduate of Amarillo High School. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and has been recommended for the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
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Roy A. Bechtel
Pacific Area
First Baptist Church of
Navy
Social graces arrive at Aleutian base with dinner courtesy
Civilization reaches the northern island base as Chief Petty Officer John Urban of Meriden, Conn., tops a fried chicken dinner with brandy after coffee and finger bowls. Separately in Idaho, 13 year old Lyman Horsley from American Falls runs a 25 cent shoe shining business at the Pocatello air base post barber shop offering a “special cleaner” mix.
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John Urban
Meriden
Pocatello, Ida
Lyman Horsley
American Falls
Ida
Pocatello Air Base Post
Lyman
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