Postwar Texas airport plan boosts civilian use potential
Texas faces a mixed outlook as postwar conversion of Army and Navy air fields proceeds. Cities weigh costs of hangars and main buildings against new air transportation opportunities while awaiting federal action on field releases. Major fields include Cox near Paris and Perrin between Denison and Sherman, with extensive runway and hangar upgrades already funded.
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Cox Army Air Field
Paris
Cox Field
Lamar County
Perrin Field
Denison and
Sherman
Wade Hill Liberated From Japanese Prison Camp
Mrs. C. T. Everett of Vega reports her nephew Wade Hill Webb of Hillsboro has been freed from a Japanese camp in Thailand where the 131st Field Artillery Lost Battalion was interned. He is en route to Calcutta for transport back to the United States.
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Vega
Wade Hill Webb
Hillsboro
Thailand
131St Field Artillery
Webb
W. W. Webb
Calcutta
India
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Commander To Visit in Amarillo
Commander Tom Kane of El Paso will visit Panhandle DAV chapters this week with his wife. He will speak at 8 PM tomorrow at 607 Taylor at the J. E. Peitzsch Chapter and auxiliary. Kane and Mrs. Kane then travel to Borger for a Thursday night DAV meeting. A letter from DAV national headquarters in Cincinnati commends the group for training service-disabled veterans as rehabilitation officers.
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el Paso
Disabled American Veterans
Panhandle
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J. E. Peitzsch
Taylor
Amarillo
DAV
Cincinnati
Harry S. Truman
Veterans Administration
American University
Washington, D. C
101st Airborne Man Home on 30 Day Furlough
Private Jimmy Holmes son of Mr and Mrs James Holmes of 701 North Buchanan returns home on a 30 day furlough after serving with the 101st Airborne Division. He trained at Texas Tech Camp Hood and Camp Howze as an Army Specialized Training Reserve member, served as a glider man in Naples and was hospitalized near Salisbury England. He later joined the 13th Airborne Division bound for Pacific duty and expects to depart around October 1.
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Hensley Field
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Freed Doolittle Flier Seeks Missionary Life in Japan
Salem Oregon September 11 A discharged flier from the Doolittle raid Jacob DeShazer who endured three years in a Japanese prison camp hopes to spend his life as a missionary to the people who mistreated him his mother said in a letter today Mrs H M Andrus relayed the news citing her son’s desire to return to Japan with a message of peace
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Salem
Ore
H. M. Andrus
Jacob D. DeShazer
Tokyo
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