West Virginians Servicemen Listed In War Era Dispatch
The note lists West Virginia men and women stationed or promoted in various U.S. and overseas posts. It names cadets, corporals, sergeants, lieutenants and officers at bases including Great Lakes Fort Bliss Camp Chaffee Thunderbird Field Maxwell Field and Bougainville with assignments from aviation cadet centers to infantry units. Families from Charleston Shrewsbury Meadow Bluff and other towns are connected through parental ties and hometown addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillip H. Monroe
E. T. Monroe
North Dr
Carsiana Field
Tex
Kanawha County
Great Lakes
Carl J. Belcher
William H. Koontz
Charleston
Cecil
Proctor
London
William A. Overholt
Virginia Av
C. E
San Antonio (Tex
Aviation Cadet Center
Roy E. O'Daniels
Shrewsbury
Camp Chaffee
Ark
O'Daniels
Pfe
Buford Lunsford
37Th
Bougainville
Coy Holley
Scarbro
John C. Williams
Ward
Adjutant General's School
Ft. Washington
J. Alfred Poe
J. J. Poe
Henderson Av
Army Air Forces Tactical Center
Orlando
Fila
Emory Skaggs
Ansted
James E. Ska
Maly
Martin Moore
Army
Thunderbird Field
Glendale
Ariz
Harold ¥. Halstead
Lake
James R. Taylor
Richwood
Charles Starcher
Walton
Andrew H. Kirby
R. L. Kirby
St. Albans
England
Helen Tuckwiller
Wac
Ft. Oglethorpe
Willie G. Childers
Chesapeake
Clarissa V. Moore
Sissonville
Virginia RK
McDonald, Shinnston
Alphonso K. Bragg
Marine Barracks
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Earl Bragg
Clothier
Fred D. Settle
Air Transport Command
Caribbean
Muriel Settle
Rand
West
Curtis L. Shrewsbury
Hock
Kelly L. Owens
Sophie
Charles G. Hoke
Webster Springs
William Earl Keeney
Lena Keeney
East Bank
1St Air Force Service
North Africa
James Paul Haynes
Camp Parks
Shoemaker
Cal
Billy Haynes
Park Av
K. A. Daugherty
Aleutian Islands
Elizabeth
Judy
Breece St
Jimmie R. Osborne
Ramon Osborne
Higley
Maxwell Field
Als
War Department
West Virginia
Robert Francis Gleason
Robert Earl Clapper
Mr. Hope
Roy Roscoe Sibold
White Sulphur Springs
Darwin Blebert Smith
Williamson
Lynn Forrest Moore
Belington
Ruth McClain
Montgomery
Gordon Howard
Nitro
George Ware Watts
John F. West
Jumping Branch
Claude E. Wireman
Rayford
Cecil McCarthy
Lester
Golden C. Meadows
Little Birch
Waonie V. Cook
Landais
Charles
Shipley
Jimmy Chamarro
Raleigh
Roy H. Shaffer
Emmett E. Smith
Rupert
John H. Young
Saxon
Gordon G. Chenoweth
Melvin Myers
South Charleston
Fred Jones
Spencer
Darrell Naylor
James W. Searles
Clyde H. Upperman
Terre Alte
Joseph
McAlpine
Streeter
Hougainville
William ¥. Garrett
Joseph C. Lusby
Cochran Field
Earl A. Smithers, Jr
North Charleston
Sgt
Smithers
Ft Sam Houston
John D. Vaughan
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Thurmond Green
Natormine
Yeoman
Fredda M. Hedrick
Virginda B. Hedrick
Lee St
Naval Training School
Stillwater
Okla
Potomac River Naval Command
Washington, D. C
Robert J. Simpson
Camp Claiborne
Cpl. Simpson
Bernadene Simpson
Poea
R. C. Simpson
Raymond City
Charles Taylor
Dorothy Taylor
South
Camp Hood
Jackie Lo Burgess
Ted Bragg
Ira
J. W. Burgess
Hed Oak St
Truaxfield
Madison
Wis
John Galausich
Steve Rokrich
Richard St
Keeslerfield
Biloxi
Dave W. Elswick
Columbia Av
Ft. Knox
Wiley Elswick
Malden
John Kalausich
Donna Wallace
Staunton Av
George W. Cundiff
Staunton Clark Haynes
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Memphis
Tenn
Neva Haynes
Cl. Raymond
Rhodes
G. W. Rhodes
Tyler Mountain
Mil
Lessie Rhodes
Florida St
Donald R. Roberts
Elkins
Glendon
Hawley
Fairdale
Ozval Woods
Falling Rock
Robert T. Burns
Fort Spring
Carl_W. Sedlock
Hic
Japs Claim American Fighters Beaten Off
The Tokyo radio reported two American P-31 fighters failed to raid the Japanese occupied area northwest of Peiping China. Peiping sits in Hopeh province 75 miles inland from the Yellow Sea. The broadcast claimed no damage and said none of the planes forced landed in Shansi where it said they were captured by Japanese units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tokyo Radio
Peiping
China
Hopeh Province
Yellow Sea
North America
Shansi
Mother's Day? Father’s Day origin claim analyzed
The note asserts a 1010 origin by Mrs. John Bruce Dodd in Spokane Wai a e, but widely cited history places Father’s Day genesis in the early 20th century in the United States with Sonora Dodd and Spokane, Washington. The claim lacks corroborating historical details and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
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