Letters From Milltown GI Return to Maynard Community Reflections
A Mil town soldier writes from Italy in November 1944 about GI life overseas and home towns. He recounts meetings with Vin Wattu Norvin Laubenstein and John Sherman, notes Edith Mildred and Charlie Usher wounded in France, and reflects on returning veterans. He urges Maynard to welcome and support returning soldiers while pondering their future families and workplaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Corps
John
Milltown
John Sherman
Maynard
Bedford Residents Make Property Sale and War Vets Return
Mr and Mrs Marshall E Fish sold their five room bunga tow on Pine Hill road to John A Desmond of Arlington. Miss Carroll Blake daughter of Kenneth P Blake of Domine Manse visited home from Lincoln School Providence R I. Donald Neal SC 2-c U S Navy arrived home for Christmas after a year away serving in England part of the BD Day invasion and as crew member on an LCI ship. He will report for duties after a month furlough at Hillside Avenue and visiting relatives in Buffalo N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sherman
John
Sherman
National Guard
Maynard
Turkey
Charlie” Usher
Ytterd
Charles
Rome
France
Charlie
Eino Wattu
Charles Usher
Milltown
Marshall E. Fish
Pine Hill Road
John A. Desmond
Arlington
Carroll Blake
Kenneth P. Blake
Domine Manse
Lincoln School
Providence
R. I
Donald Neal
U.S. Navy
England
LCI
Hillside Avenue
Buffalo
N. Y
Cost of living in Boston rises slightly in mid November
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.2 percent month over month rise in Boston living costs from mid October to mid November, driven by food and household fuel coke. Prices are 1.7 percent higher than a year ago and 24 percent above January 1941 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Areau of Labor Statistics
U. S. Department of Labor
Wendell D. Mactdonald
Little Steel
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Navy Enlists Gerald Qua for January Training
Gerald Qua son of Mr and Mrs Edwin F Qua of Springs Road has enlisted in the Navy and will report on January 15 for training. Mrs Grace Smith Hartford Street hosts two sisters from Nova Scotia and Fort Lawrence and Wallace Bay for two weeks. Miss Madeline Fitch Hillside Avenue vacationed with relatives in Pepperell. Miss Dorothy Perkins Hartford Street visited friends at New Gardens Long Island during school vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald, Qua
Edwin F. Qua
Springs Road
Navy
Grace Smith
Hartford’ Street
Nova ‘Scotia
Claude Porter
Fort Lawrence
Bliss Weeks
Wallace Bay
Madeline Fitch
Hillside Avenue
Pepperell
Dorothy Perkins
Hartld Street
Friends Atew Gardens
Long Island
Local Service Men In War Effort From Concord Area
Brother and sister service members are listed from Concord and nearby towns. Mrs. McCormack joins the Army Nurses Corps at Lowell General Hospital with two brothers in the Navy aboard an LST and a destroyer in the Pacific. Tech Sgt Joseph Palumbo returns from 30 months in the Aleutians after 1942 enlistment. Sergeant William G OBrien visits from a Marine Corps post on furlough with two brothers in the Navy and Army. Thomas McPhillips serves in the Army while another brother awaits Navy training in Pensacola. Local athletes Louis Cunningham and Edward Cunningham report duty in the Army Air Corps and militia service respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank L. McCormack
West Conford
U. S. Army Nurses Corps
Lowell General Hospital
Fort
McCormack
Newton Hospital
Emerson Hospital
Norman
Southwest Pacific
George
Patife
U. S. Navy
Massachuse Reformatory
West Concord
Joseph Palumbo
Aleutians
Sergt Palumbo
Waltham
William G.o’brien
Marine Corps
Daniel J. O'Brien
Lowell Road
Daniel J., Jr
Navy
Richard
Army
Sergt. O’brien
Pearl Harbor
Coficord
Lincolln
Sig Louis -Cunningham
Edward
Cunningham
Army Air Corps
Pacafic
Hi Brother
No Renewals on War Forms of ODT Rules
M R Colgar says Certificates of War Necessity for commercial motor vehicle operators are indefinite until cancelled and need not be renewed annually. ODT transfers gasoline ration duties to OPA, which now collects fourth quarter ration coupons. Operators should turn in remaining rations to local War Price and Rationing Boards rather than ODT offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. R. Colgar
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Colgan
OPA
Marlboro Hospital Named to Approved List for 1944
The American College of Surgeons reports 3,152 hospitals on the approved list for 1944. Marlboro Hospital in Marlboro Massachusetts is included, meeting strict standards for patient care and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lege ‘of
States
Marlboro
Massach
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D. Elson
Carrot
P.M. N.Y
Italy
Ins
Smee
Sabador
Vincent West
Air Corps Service Command
Norvin Laubenstein
Corse St Engineers
John Shea
Vin Weir
Weir
Vin
Re Tierney
Walter Core
Eee
Bino Wattu
Uno
Norvin Lau
Maptreet Way
George Abenstein
Norvin
Africa
Control Commission
Charles, Jr
Anzio
Rhone Valley
Lephant
Rhine
Jet
Mike Bay
Dick Elson
Frank
Youou
Brother
Stone
Asu
Kelly
Bedford
Ee Ee
Alain
Concord
P. O. Box Concord
Thomas ¥. McPhillips
U. S. Army
Joni
Statle Pensacola, Fla
Francis Henny
Willow Street
Villun
Young Hancock
Francis Hancock
Hudson—Tel
Albert E. Sim
BIGHAM @ SONS
South Bt
Waltel
Waltham Ae
Batler Ave
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