Army pilot Lt. Smith earns Medal for aerial feats in Europe
Lt. Allen Rk. Smith of Safford Arizona, a B 24 pilot with the 15th Air Force, was awarded a Medal by Army Air Forces headquarters for aerial achievements in Italy and across southern Germany. He joined the Cavalry in 1940, transferred to the air force in 1944, and completed over numerous bombing missions before overseas deployment in August 1944. He is married to Betty Jo Brakebill of Bonham.
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Allen Rk. Smith
Betty Jo Smith
Chevet
Italy
Wth Aaf
Smith
German
Fort Worth
Moroc
Calif
Betty Jo Brakebill
Laura Brakebill
Bonham
Stars Areeed In ELD vice Flas tree ha
Unclear fragmentary note mentions a tree planted in memory or honor and a recurring tribute. Names, dates, places, or organizations are not readable in the text. The snippet references honoring efforts and a yearly pause to reflect.
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Eed
Eld
Vice Flas
American Nes Blast Facilities Reported Near Front Lines
November 18 dispatch says American air forces bombed rail facilities causing damage to four oil tank cars operated by Un and Hanay near the southwestern front. No further details on casualties or exact locations.
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Ndon
U.P
America
Witch
Russians Tighten Ring Around Budapest Front
Russian troops pressed five miles along a 50 mile front toward Hatvan Gyonegos Eger and Miskolc threatening to break the eastern defense line northeast of Budapest. They cut the Miskolc Satoraljaujhely rail link and advanced toward Austria from a Danube bridgehead as heavy combat raged.
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London
U.P
Hatvan
Gyonegos
Eger
Miskolc
Budapest
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Fuzesakony
Slovakia
Satoraljaujhely
Berlin
Sovit
Danube
Moscow
Troops Released to Help Make Ammunition
The War Department authorized releasing 1 000 army troops from active duty to work in forge shops and foundries supporting heavy artillery ammunition and tanks. Volunteers over 50 who are not assigned to infantry or overseas ready will be brought in as civilian workers with recall possible for essential work. A stray historical note recalls General Sam Houston’s San Jacinto band of 800 and their sole tune.
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Washington, Navy
War Department
Sam Houston
Battle of
San Jacinto
Bower
Sixth War Loan Start Monday In Fannin County
Fannin County banks participate in ABA program for the 7th year. The American Bankers Association award honors regular and extra services to farmers, including farm credit and support for 4-H and Future Farmers of America. Data show Texas banks aid livestock programs, crop improvements, and soil conservation.
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Pannin County
Texas
American Bankers Association
Dick Saunders
First National Bank
Bonham
Texas Bankers Association
Fannin County
Saunders
America
War Bond Drive Urges All Bonham Fannin Citizens
County and Bonham leaders launch Sixth War Loan with quotas of 443 500 and 880 000 urging quick completion. They stress ongoing needs of Allies and appeal for voluntary, early bond purchases to speed the war effort. General Eisenhower has called for over the top confidence in the loan.
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Bonham
Fannin County
J. Frank Wright
Martin Hassell
Wright
Hassell
Europe
China
Pacific
Dwight D. Fisenhower
Western Front
United States
Pacific Theater
Asiatic
Fort Worth Livestock Market Report Progresses
Fort Worth market with cattle and calves up about 25. Beef steers and yearlings reach weeks top at 14, beef cows 1050-11, slaughter calves 12. Hogs active and steady with top pork around 14.55 per hundredweight for 180-270 pounds. pigs scarce. overall steady to higher versus last week.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Weather Outlook for Texas Evening and East Areas
Considerable cloudiness with occasional light rain tonight and in the eastern portions of the state. The forecast calls for unsettled conditions and low temperatures typical of a damp night.
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Texas
PTA Sponsors Scrap Paper Drive To Aid War Effort
Citywide collection by the City Council of Parents Teachers Association begins Monday at a depot on North Main Street. Edgar Womack provides the building for storage until enough paper is gathered. Housewives urged to bring or send magazines and newspapers in separate, 12 inch bundles to save fuel and tires.
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City Council of Parents
North Main Street
Edgar Womack
W. E. Newton's
United States
Road to Berlin distances and Easter visit noted
The report lists distances from the western front 296 miles from Numecen area and 309 miles from Jablonna Legion ewo in Poland plus 634 miles from the Italian front near Ravenna. It also notes a first visit to Florida on Easter Sunday with a reference to Pas cua Floridi.
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Jablonna Legionewo
Poland
Ravenna
Florida
Yanks Near Ormoc as Leyte Fight Tightens
Allied forces push within about nine miles of Ormoc in a Leyte campaign described by Gen. MacArthur. American divisions, including the 32nd and 7th, press toward the Japanese stronghold while a relief attempt at Limon is repulsed and the road to Ormoc is cut to trap the defenders.
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Allied
Leyte
Philippines
Ormoc
U. S
Limon
Douglas MacArthur
Daily War Bulletin
32Nd
New Guinea
Aitape
Archibald V. Arnold
Tabgas
Ormoec
Balogo
MacArthur
96Th Division
Alto Peak
Tth
Frederick A. Irving
9 Mth
United Press War
Francis McCarthy
Denver D McRae Returns From Year Southwest Pacific
Pvt Denver D McRae 34 Ivanhoe Texas arrives at Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No 2 Miami Beach for reassignment processing after a year of duty in the southwest Pacific He will undergo medical exams and classification interviews and remain about two weeks for rest and recreation McRae was an airplane mechanic for one year in the southwest Pacific He is the son of Mr and Mrs C D McRae Route 1 Ivanhoe entered the Army in 1942 The Arkansas name means smoky water with a French prefix meaning bow.
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Miami, Beach
Denver D. McRae
Ivanhoe
Texas
Army Air Forces
Miami Beach
United States
AAF
McRae
Southwest Pacific
C. D. McRae
Route 1
Muareh
Martin Carter Receives Distinguished Unit Badge for AAF Marauders
Sergeant Martin A. Carter of Bonham Texas is cited for his RAF B 26 Marauder group in the Mediterranean theater. The unit earned the Distinguished Unit Badge and Croix de Guerre for 350 missions and a May 12 attack supporting the Fifth Army toward Rome. Carter serves in a bomb sight maintenance section. wife Mrs. Carter lives in Whitewright Texas.
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AAP
Martin A. Carter
RFC No 3
Bonham, Texas
Mediterranean
War Department
Fifth Army
Rome
155Th Panzer Grenadier Division
United States
France
de Gaulle
Carter
Martin Carter
Whitewright
Texas
First Army Breaks Rhine Outer Defenses Near Cologne
Allied forces report the First Army pierced Rhine defenses at a three mile push to 26 miles from Cologne after capturing Gressenich. Patton’s Third Army neared Metz and Saar frontier while Ninth Army pressed north of Aachen. Heavy tank battles erupted in the Haertgen Forest and Stolberg as Van Fleet’s 90th Cavalry neared the German border near Rustroff.
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Paris
U.2
First
Rhine
Gressenich
Cologne
George 8. Paton
Third
Metz
Saar Frontier
Ninth Army
Aachen
Haertgen
First Army
Stolberg
Paton
Saar
Thionville
James van Fleet
Rustroff
France
Luxembourg
Marine Ray Wilburn returns home from Pacific duty
Ray Wilburn USMC is visiting his mother Mrs Maud Wilburn after two months in the Pacific with the Second Marine Division. His unit was the first to engage Japanese forces on United States soil and he took part in five campaigns. He wears the Presidential Citation ribbon for Tarawa and his unit has earned the citation twice.
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Wolfe City
Ray Wilburn
USMC
Maud Wilburn
Pacific
Second Marine Division
Wilurn
United States
Tarawa
Dobie Urges Regents Be Fired Over Rainey Dismissal
Frank Dobie, UT author professor, testified in the state senate inquiry and demanded Regent fire Gay and Stevens on the Rainey firing case. Regent Bullington sniped at Dobie as a drugstore cowboy while Strickland called Rainey overpaid compared to his role.
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Austin
J. Frank Dobie
University of Texas
State Senate
Cambridge University
England
Dobie
Gay
Coke R. Stevenson
Homer P. Rainey
Orville Bullington
Wichita Falls
D. F Strickland
Mission
Rainey
Rat Eradication Campaign to Start Monday
A citywide rat eradication program will place poisoned bait from Monday to Wednesday in Bonham and in adjacent communities on Friday and Saturday. Orders from outside Bonham must reach the chamber of commerce by 6 p.m. Wednesday. Bait is prepared Thursday and delivered Friday and Saturday.
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Bonham
Chamber of Commercce
Train wreck injures Miami Champion passengers in Georgia derailment
Twenty passengers were injured, several seriously, when the last Miami Champion of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad derailed between Jesup and Nahunta, Georgia. Early reports indicated no fatalities.
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Jacksonville
Fla
U.P
Miami
Atlantic Coast Line
Jesup
Nahunta
Allied Push Across Fronts in Europe as 3rd Army Sieges Metz
United States Third Army breaches toward Metz while Allied forces advance from Holland to the Bel fort gap. American First and Ninth push into the Cologne plain, Seventh and French First reach toward the Swiss border, with heavy artillery and shelling reported. British forces clear Maas west bank near Venlo, and Russian air forces mount offensives around northeast Hungary.
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United Press
Germany
Luxembourg
Metz
Reich
Holland
Belfort
Cologne
Aachen
United States
Rhine
Secnnemy
Ballend
Ger
Maas
Tatenir Venlo
Hunegary
Budapest
Hatvan
Gyongyos
Eger
Miskolc
Eighth Army
Italy
Paenza
Rimini-Bolognaighway
Cap d Monte Fortino
Forli
Bras
Mapia
MacArthur
Committees For Lions Club Fete Are Announced
Lions Club fall ladies night program committees named by president Carlee Cummings. Members include Entertainment Virgil Wilson chairman with five others, Ticket sales John Hulsey chairman with four associates, Food Dennis Bales chairman and four helpers, Decorations V E Hawes chairman with five assistants, Arrangements Van Case chairman with four members. Night set for Thursday Nov 40.
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Bonham Lions Club
Carlee Cummings
Virgil Wilson
Bill Milam
Udell Brown
E. D. Wilshire
J. E. Fender
Dennis Bales
Bob Cantrell
Red Mankins
Jess Magourth
Clarence Fkins
V. E. Hawes
Joe Shaw
Buck Spurlock
Roy Sharyres
Tom Francis
van Case
Henry Burt
H.R. van Zandt
Glenn Finley
Ed Edmiston
Army Navy game tickets moved to aid war bond drive
The general sale of tickets for the Army Navy football game has been shifted to Baltimore and placed in the hands of a committee to plan sales in conjunction with the sixth war bond drive.
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Washington
Baltimore
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Ree
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Fort Worth Livestock
PTA
Central Point
Numecen
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German Rhine
Frank Dobie
Bullington
Lions Club
John Hulsey
Jack Saunders
Dan Barnard
Ray Taylor
J. D. Woodward
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