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collected in committee’s distributed t lie basis of : race, creed \vorth in the ?ad disease j lildren to beion for the : the disease Night to be on Monday, ealized from dll revert toorasesthe soldiers ?d in black is, France, is Huachuca’s ris, who was at this Post a May, 1943.dLsplayea in one action. Other Negro tank battalions are active with Gen. Patton’s 3rd Army.29TH SIGNALMEN ON GERMAN SOIL:“Leap-frogging frorii the Normandy beachhead through France and Belgium. Co. •B’' of the 29th Signal Construction Bn., has been stringing copper strands of telephone and telegraph wire over German soil. This unit is the first Negro signal group to work in Germany.Following two Armies across the continent, the 29th Signal, assigned to the Advance Section. Communications one, crossed the border on the Saarbrucken front. Co. B.” working in close co-operation with Co. A.” set.up its quarters on the enemy’s home ground several weeks ago.HOME AFTER 123 MISSIONS:Back in his home town. Hartsville, S. C., for a well-earned furlough, is Capt. Albert H. Manning. Jr.. who has won the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and three oak leaf clusters during the 123 missions he has flown with the 99th Pursuit Squadron and the 332nd Flying Group, based in Italy.Phoenix, Ariz., are a group of the troupers. They are, from left to right, first row: Pvt. Irving Ashby, Pfc. Jimmy Mundy, Pvt. Earl Jackson, Pvt. ElwynT/5 Walter Williams, and Pvt. Chester Burrell, at extreme right are entertainers Pfc. Eugene son, T/5 Maceo Anderson, and Pvt. Pompcy Dlt;New Chaplain Is * Gospel PreacherPleaching a vigorous sermon on the topic of “A Good Man,” Chaplain «1st Lieutenant! Julius C. Carter made an auspicious debut asto served as i the recent ted thirteen the toughest nartial ever nes, the sen-40. 45 or 50 lard labor.iracyience which i, the court-that some of been carried stealing-: itTRUCKERS ROLL MILLION MILES:Wheels on the trucks of a Negro | quartermaster company of the 13th AAF in the Southwest Pacific ground out over 1,000.000 miles without a ; major accident in 18 months of operation overseas, it was announced recently.The trucks in this outfit, driven, | serviced and maintained entirely by j Negro enlisted men, have hauled ■everything from bombs to casualties. The neatly labeled jobs allotted to : truck companies in the U. S. don’tBusy Winter Is Forecast For Special Service Gr(If the Special Service Division’s band and enter comply with all the requests for their services on file in th Huachuca Special Service officer’s desk, they will be ; tremely busy bunch of soldiers during the next few montl Working each night on the Post, in conjunctior morale building activities, the group has been called up many outside organizations for its services, in tribute^excellence in its own fieI and E Program Given New ImpetusA ‘shot in the arm” to the Information and Education program at Fort Huachuca is being injected by Lt. Lawrence D. Freiberg. 9th Service Command, who is on T/D from Fort Douglas, Utah, to accomplish just that mission.A graduate of the I. and E. course at the Army School for Personnel Services, Lex#igton, Va. Lt. FT'eiberg has traveled over, many of the installations of the NSC, helping them to make their I. and E. programs more vital.One of his chief accomplishments at Fort Huachuca has been his set-. ting up a daily bulletin on “The War Today.” In getting out the bulletin, a mimeographed sheet of significantTypical of the requests have reached the Fort ask the group s services are ej from the following letter National Foundat Infantile Paralysi Cochise County C January 16, 1945. Dear Col. Hardy:The Risbee district is piar President’s Birthday Ball o urday, January 27th. As i years, the dance is sponso the Cochise County Chaptei National Foundation for Ir Paralysis, in connection wi annual fund raising drive.A lot of the success of las1 Ball at the Country Club n to the excellent music fumb a dance band from your Pc We sincerely hope you will to arrange for a dance b
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Apache Junction Apache Sentinel
Apache Junction, Arizona, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1945
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