Texas Reserve Officers Call 439 Texas Officers to Active Duty
Texas Reserve Officers to report for active duty by Oct 1 in three waves. 439 company grade officers from Texas will fill combat branches Infantry Armored Artillery Coast Artillery Engineers and service branches Adjutant General Corps GuInance and Quartermaster. Medical Service officers quota set at 79 to be filled by Sept 10. Ages vary by rank with upper limits noted. Abbott, Texas Division headquarters announcing details.
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Oscar B. Abbott
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Adjutant General Corps
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Abbott
Truman Hover Led Battery D in War Then Now
Captain Eldon A. Cox of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, recalls President Truman’s World War I service. The same battery now trains in the Missouri Ozarks with 225th National Guard, enjoying hot meals in the field and joking about following in Truman’s footsteps. Cox emphasizes no political ambitions, just leading a capable unit with cooks and strong equipment.
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Isort Leonard Wood
Truman
Eldon A. Cox
Kansas
Trumen
Cox
Tfield
Brigadiers Seek History Material for Lee Corps Scrapbook
The Lee Brigadiers seek drum and bugle corps history and any copies or material for their big scrapbook at Robert E Lee Kish School. Former members of the Furs Who are asked to send in material to Miss Alvern Griffin or Miss sion Horn at 6422 Lee Gymnasium. Griffin urged contributions as the unit preserves local military tradition.
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Lee
Nike
Robert E. Lee Kish School
Furs
Brigadiers
Alvern Griffin Lee
Sion Horn
Auditor Questions Texas National Guard Guest Houses
State Auditor C E Cavness questioned the Adjutant General's Department and its practice of maintaining guest houses and fishing camps for National Guard members and department employees. The audit covered May 7 1847 to February 28 1950 and cited three guest houses at Camp Hulen on Palacios Bay.
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C. E. Cavness
Adjutant General's Department
Cavness
Texas National Guard
Carness
Camp Hulen
Palacios Bay
Reynolds Socy Being Returned
Lone Pine Calif bodies of tobacco heir Christopher Reynolds and Stes Wasserman 17 will be cremated and sent home east their families said today. They died while attempting to scale Mt Whitney near 14 496 feet and Wasserman slipped plunging to instant death. Reynolds body was brought down yesterday Wasserman’s was recovered Monday.
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Calif
Christopher Reynolds
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Wasserman
Reynolds
Air Force Tests New Armor Piercing Rockets in Korea
Fifth Air Force planes fired powerful new rockets at Communist tanks in Korea. A MacArthur spokesman said the first batch was almost hand made and a variation of the five inch high velocity rocket. One type carries a six and a half inch war head with tremendous impact. The rockets were flown to Korea.
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Fifth Air Force
Korea
Douglas MacaArthur
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