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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

28 Mar 1944

Page 7

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 28, 1944

Page

7

Service Members Return and Move in World War II Notes

Orville W. Elmore is commissioned a second lieutenant after 18 weeks of bombardier navigator training in Texas and will report to Yuma Arizona. Numerous servicemen and women appear in brief notes: promotions to sergeant and technical sergeant. transfers to Fort Monmouth Farragut Camp Carson Shoemaker Camp Roberts and others. overseas arrival in Italy New Guinea Solomon Islands and the South Pacific. furloughs at home in Cedar Rapids Anderson Shueyville Atkins Norman and other towns. families report visits and seaborne duties at various posts.

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Orville W. Elmore Childressfield Texas Burl B Elmore Eighth Street Yuma Ariz Elmore Anderson Ind Cedar Rapids Leonard M. Butler T. S. Dunn Fifth Avenue Butler England Walter C. Tucker Emily Tucker Thirteenth Street Aztec Camp Carson Colo Walter C Avenue Paul H. Lubbock South Pacific R. T. Lubbock B Avenue NW Lubbock Australia Horace Red” Snow Indio Calif Sixth Avenue Helen Snow H Avenue NW Donald Skala Camp Roberts Shueyville Dean Rinderknecht Pacific Minnie Rinderknecht Atkins Eugene San Diego Farragut Idaho Torpedo School Edward Schlotterbeck George Schlotterbeck Morris A . Stoner Great Lakes Ill Sixteenth Avenue Albert G. Stoner L Street Kenneth McShane Camp Callan Camp San Luis Obispo Springville Harold T. Hughes Africa Italy McKinley Street Harry Guy Hamilton Navy Training Center Gulfport Miss J. E. Hardwick Thirty-third Street Donald R. McLeod Walnut Ridge Ark R. W. McLeod Mt. Vernon Road Charles V. Anderson Norman Okla Charles H. Anderson N Street Susan Ann Sgt. DeForest M. Olver O. D. Olver Maxine Westwood Drive W. Johnson Thirtieth Street Frank E. Rocarek Tenth Avenue Sgt. Olver Fort Ord
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Sgt Martin Receives Purple Heart Award

The Purple Heart awarded Staff Sgt. Robert J. Martin for serious wounds in Italy on February 13 has been received by his wife Mrs. John Martin at 2705 Schaefer drive SW. Martin, an air force technician, served three years and 16 months overseas in North African Sicilian and Italian campaigns.

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Purple Heart Robert J. Martin Italy John Martin Schaefer Drive Martin Air Force
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West Side Draft Board Names Ten to Army and Navy

Linn county selective service board No. 2 selects ten men for military service five for the army and five for the navy. Recipients include Alvin Lenway Harold Kokoska Richard Kretschmar Owen Darrow Baror Myers August Brehm Leslie Lange James Bearns Stanley Findley Harold Vesper and others who received gifts from the United Service Aides.

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Linn County Selective Service Board No. 2 West Side Army Navy United Service Aides Alvin Francis Lenway Maplewood Drive Harold John Kokoska K Street Richard Floyd Kretschmar J Avenue Owen Walter Darrow Baror Paul Myers L Street August Henry Brehm Oakland Road Leslie Loyal Lange First Avenue James John Bearns Stanley Wayne Findley Sixteenth Avenue Harold de Vesper Ellis Boulevard
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Jap Soldiers Bravery Obsession Revealed In Pacific War Analysis

AP correspondent William L. Worden describes a Japanese push to prove bravery, contrasting with American focus on strategic smartness. He cites battlefield behavior at Guadalcanal Attu Tarawa Kwajalein and Eniwetok, notes a Hokkaido academy teaching self destruction, and argues the Japanese seek self validation through heroic posturing rather than effective combat.

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U.S Marshall Islands Pacific Tojo Gilberts Tazawa Makin Tokyo Wake Island Bataan Guadalcanal Attu Tarawa Kwajalein Eniwetok Hokkaido Ducky Iichymoto
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Willkie Warns of Lost Direction in War and Labor Roles

Wendell L. Willkie, in Milwaukee, says the war shows a lost sense of direction at home and abroad. He praises labor’s vast war effort but criticizes corrupt leaders, urges democratization of labor, and any drift from declared wartime objectives. He cites Lincoln, Wilson, and postwar principles, then flags Polish borders, Vichy, Yugoslav, and Italian Fascist policies.

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Milwaukee Wendell L. Willkie Wisconsin Willkie John L. Lewis United Mine Workers Labor Abraham Lincoln Woodrow Wilson League of Nations United Nations Hull
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Juggling Dynamite on Anzio Patrol Night

Reporter recounts a dangerous night patrol near the front lines at Anzio Beachhead Italy. Captain Charles Ledyard leads four men in a jeep through shelling and mines past foxholes where veterans ask anxiously when they will go home.

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Anzio Italy Charles Ledyard Westfield Mass William A. Brams Cleveland Franklin King Oklahoma Ledyard Sicily
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Richard L. Reeder Camp Stewart Stanley Reeder Robert C. ‘Gatewood Gatewood Melvin R. Bammert New Guinea Fred Bammert Tenth Street Cpl Robert Hastings Fort Monmouth N. J E. A. Hastings Bever Avenue Robert L. Grimm Fifth Army Merle Grimm Third Street Jack HE. Wagner Wagner Tom Bowker Oakland Avenue Chico Field Alif Sgt. Martin West Side Board William L. Worden Robert Vermillion Iowa Burma Finland Lithuania Russia T Moscow Vologde Poland Rumania Bulgaria Ordzhondudze Stalingrad Prut River Crimea White Russia Ukraine Francis J. Spellman Msgr Fulton J. Sheen New York M. A. Rasko Pius XII Kellett Aircraft U.S.A.A Camp Hahan Elena Verdugo Puppy Zoe de Salle Associated Press Wendell Wendell Willkie Billy Bettin Allen Grove Wis U. S Germany Walter Winchell Rep. Dies D-Texas Washington Winchell Committee On un-American Activities Memphis Tenn Ripley Holi Gee Miceburg Penn State Rutgers Norwalk
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