Lacey's Spring Private Honored for Italy Action
Private First Class Eddie Anderson of Lacey's Spring Alabama received commendation from Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott Jr for meritorious duty with the 3rd Platoon Company B 751st Tank Battalion. The unit, minus two tanks, repelled a German counterattack near Corona Italy from November 24 to 28 1944 and held under heavy shelling. Anderson participated in the action and is the son of Thomas Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Anderson
Lacey’s Spring
Alabama
Lucian K. Truscott, Jr
Fifth Army
751St
Corona
Italy
Anderson
Thomas Anderson
Lacey
PFC Clifton Hurst Returns from Pacific Service
PFC Clifton W. Hurst, 29, husband of Mrs Inas Hurst of Landerville Ala, has returned from service outside the continental United States and is at the Army Redistribution Station in Miami Beach awaiting his next assignment. He served 43 months with a corps of engineers unit in the Southwest Pacific theater and received the Asiatic Pacific campaign ribbon with three battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton W. Hurst
Inas Hurst
Landersville
Ala
Continental
United States
Army Ground and Service Forces
Miami Beach
Pfc
Hurst
Corps of Engineers
Southwest Pacific Theater
Old Age Policy Pays up to $100 a Month
The Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Co offers an accident policy for ages 65 to 85 with benefits up to $500 for death and $100 monthly for disability and hospital care. Cost is 1 cent a day. No money needed now for a 10 day free inspection. provide name address age and beneficiary details.
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Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Company
Postal
Life Building
Kansas City 2
FIGHTING Forces PFC GILBERT MORRIS Honored for Service
PFC Gilbert Morris son of Mr and Mrs B E Morris Cullman 4 has served 11 months in the service with 5 months overseas He is a machine gunner and served in the front lines in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfc
Gilbert Morris
B. E. Morris
Cullman 4
Morris
Germany
Calcutta Camp Editor Geiss Wins 1945 Newspaper Prize
Lester H. Geiss of Forest Hills New York won the 1945 camp newspaper service contest for his China Lantern, a five column GI publication based in Calcutta with broad war news maps and China theater local reporting. He previously edited The Command Post and is noted for plain language and anti brass polishing rules. Geiss joined the army as a baker then shifted to public relations and ordnance, later earning a commission and creating GI papers across the China Burma India theater.
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Calcutta
United States
Lester H. Geiss
Yellowstone Boulevard
Forest Hills
N. Y
China Lantern
Leland Stowe
Basil L
Stuffy) Walters
Chicago Daily News
John S. Remaly
Endicott
N.Y
Daily Bulletin
Command Post
Geiss
San Francisco
Sheyenne
Fort Warren
Ordnance
Fort Crook
Omaha
India
Oran
Brig. Des
Gilbert Cheeves
CBI
Kunming
Amrita Bazar Patrika
China
China Theater
CBS
Longshore in Mortar Unit With 2nd Infantry Division
Private First Class Longshore, son of Mrs Effie Longshore of Tanner Alabama, led the 21st Infantry mortar team in Mintal Valley driving hundreds of Japanese into caves and pinning them with precise fire. Six hundred thirty 81 mm rounds hit targets in two hours flattening hillsides and sealing caves with demolition squads closing entrances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
2Th Infantry
Victory
Mindanao
21St Infantry
Gisipan
Longshore
Effie B. Longshore
Tanner
Alabama
Mintal
Army Lieutenant and WAC Wed at Birmingham Police HQ
In Birmingham Alabama on a Sunday an army lieutenant and a WAC asked to marry. Sgt O C Quinn coordinated a license and a chaplain attended, with a police car transporting him to city hall. Lt Russell C Kirkpatrick and Pvt Beatrice E Morton were married in a double ring ceremony at police headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Army
WAC
O. C. Quinn
J. W. Rawlings
Sgt. Quinn
Rawlings
Russell C. Kirkpatrick
Beatrice E. Morton
Praise for soldiers at cave entrances amid heavy fighting
A veteran tribute recalls a unit of twenty three deceased Nips and describes a perilous assault where fighters, including Longshore, used demolition charges and staged a controlled withdrawal to enable an enemy advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longshore
Hanson Salary In 102000 Bracket
The late Victor H. Hanson then Birmingham News Company board chairman earned 93900 in salary and 9000 in a 1943 calendar year bonus. He was the only Alabamian named on the Treasury list of personal service compensation over 75000 for 1943 and FY ending in 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Victor H. Hanson
Birmingham News Company
U. S. Treasury Department
Hanson
Department
Know Aspirin Demand St Joseph Aspirin Brand
Advice urges asking for St Joseph Aspirin with claim of fastest, strongest relief. Promotional tone touts 100 tablets for 35 cents and urges consumers to demand the brand.
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Clifton Hurst
Pacific
Stewart Bros. Motor Co
Hartseile
Hollis Almon McAbee
Danville
Milam M. McAbee
Fort Benning
Richard W. Penn
Hospital Corps School
Farragut
Idaho
Great Lakes
Ill
Seaman Penn
Marvin Penn
Jack C. Sandlin
Walter GC. Vassar
W. C. Vassar, Jr
Atha Vassar
Sixth Ave. S
Hal Boyle
Charles A. Grumich
Robert Benchley
Boston Museum of
Mayflower Transit Co
Elliott
Belk
Piece Goods Dept
Rudolph Diesel
Bank ST
Massachusetts Investors Trust
Boston Fund
Prospectus
Howard G. Mitchell
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Bank Street
Decatur
Tokyo
Hotel Lyons
Home Oil Mill Producers
GIN McGough S3akeries
Gobble Lumber CO
Brock & Spight CO
Cooper Wells & CO
Alabama Flour Mills
Southern Airways, Inc
Upstate Chevrolet CO
W. J. Duncan Cotton CO
John Patterson Co., Inc
Decatur Iron & Steel CO
Alabama Brick & Tile CO
Decatur Box & Basket CO
Southeastern Metals, Inc
Alabama Hosiery Mills, Inc
Southern Cotton Oil CO
Alabama Dairy Products Corp
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp
Decatur Ice Cream & Creamery CO
Pepsi-Cola Bottling CO
Tennessee Valley Fertilizer Co.op
Quality Model Laundry & Dry Cleaners
U. S. Treasury
Treasury Department
War Advertising
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