Rucker Roundup Details Post News and Honors
Glenda Ritter at the Main Post Exchange receives a general order from the Cavalry Division in Korea citing her husband and others for bravery. Louis M. Sormude earns a Silver Star for gallantry in last November’s battle, while Mrs. Roberts, fingerprinting clerk, handles a flood of civilian fingerprints during post reopening. The Engineers office introduces new desks and staff, including Barbara M. Niesen and Pvt. Peter F. Niesen following their recent marriage. Blood Bank drives collect plasma, with Lt. Cavallini and Snellman aiding the Nurses crew. Civilian personnel changes include Emory Moody resigning and Mrs. Wildma Jean Wagner and James P. Aiken moving or serving elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwoda Sormrude
Glenda Ritter
Samsop
Whief Cavalry Division
Beneguayra
Kores
Hey Bene
Louis M. Sormude
Formor
la Sormrude
Sormrude
Japan
Sheda
Nevally
Jewn
Arthur) Roberts
Ned
Jean
Sean Re Jeao
Pvt
Arthur Roberts
Ordnance
Detroit
Mich
Enterprise
Red Cross Blood Bank
Wat
Ae 4Th Division
Thalidhed Snellman
Mobite
Olge Cavallinines
Burker Hospital
Sem ‘Percy
Ozark
Walter D Lupdow
Emory Moody
Gadsden
Wildma Jean Wagner
William Wagner
Mist
Tennessee
James P. Aiken
Air Force
Warner Robina
Reserve School Planned At Post During Summer
Col George R Poole arrives at Camp Rucker to establish an Army Area Basic Training School for enlisted reservists this summer. Two two week cycles will pack four weeks of training into ten days. About 400 recruits per cycle will train under reserve officers and Camp Rucker staff with minor tactics and map reading emphasized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Poole
Charlotte
H.C
Organized Reserves
Camp Rucker
Col. Poole
Ruthter
En Marity
Cel
Poole
Rucker
Two 301st Soldiers Excel At Ft Bragg Physical Training School
Privates Paul A. Locke and Charles Widemeyer of the 301st distinguished themselves at Camp Rucker and Ft. Bragg by finishing near the top of a 110-student class in Physical Education Supervision. Widemeyer scored over 490 of 500 on the fitness test, placing fourth, while Locke ranked sixth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Rucker
Army and Air Force
Ft. Bragg
Pvt
Paul A. Locke
Charles Widemeyer
Special Service Company
Widemeyer
T'vi
Winemeyer
Pyt. Locke
Bragg
Pvt. Locke
Infantry Rangers To Be Organized By 47th Division
A new Infantry Rangers company will be organized at Camp Rucker by the 47th Viking Infantry Division under Department of the Army authority. Maj. Gen. Norman E. Hendrickson announces the unit will be strictly volunteers and will join the aviation training. The program features one of the Army’s most intensive schedules with Operations Training under the Rocker facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viking
Camp Rucker
Department of the Army
Norman E. Hendrickeon
Dehydrated Foods Demonstration At Camp Rucker
Mrs Tousignant of Fitchburg Mass representative of the Dehydrated Foods Association conducted a field kitchen demonstration for Third Army Food Service Sub School students at Camp Rucker. She showed prepared dehydrated potatoes cranberries stewed fruits and other items proving meals in the field can compare to those in the mess hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Tousignant
Air Force
Third Army Food Service
Camp Rucker
Third Army
Campo Reker
Leonard J Tousignant
Fitchburg
Mass
Dehydrated Foods
Tome
Uucker
Tousignant
York
University of Illinois
Walter Reed General‘ Hospital
Washington, D. C
Finney General Hospital
Thomasville
20Th General Hospital
India
Air ‘Transport Command
23 Food
Army Quartermaster
Camp Ruckex
Dehydrated Foods Association
Department of Defens
Alpepstasihy
Veteran War Hero Becomes Camp Rucker Postal Officer
Warrant officer Robert A. Shiveley, a World War I veteran with seven campaigns across four theaters, assumes duties as postal officer at Camp Rucker. His career includes service in Hawaii with the 27th Infantry, paratrooper school at Camp McCall, combat jumps in Southern France, Berlin duty, and postings in El Paso, Japan, the Philippines, Guam, and Headquarters Eighth Army. He holds the Purple Heart with Bronze Star and numerous campaign ribbons and awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Rucker
Robert A. Shiveley
Shiveley
Army
Ft. Crook
Neb
Hawaii
27Th
Peararbor
States
Letterman General Hospital
Camp McCall
N A
Second Airborne
B2nd Airborne Division
Chivveley
Came’ Paign
France
United States
Berlin
Ft. Lavenworth
Ken
Shivetey
el Paso
Texs
Japan
Eighth Army
Philippines
Philippine Ruyylus Command
Guam
New Mexico
Camp Carson
Col
Germany
Eatbergy
Trinidea
Jon Imperial
Fragmented Doomed Text on Lip Plating and Planetary Travel
The unreadable excerpt mentions a practice of stretching lips with wooden disks among natives in distant possessions and a reference to a planet named Plo with an orbit angle described as seventeen degrees from Earth. The passage is garbled and lacks coherent events or dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plyces
Chaplain Organizes Post Choir At Camp Rucker
Lt Rufus L Hill leader of the 293rd Engineer Construction Battalion at Camp Rucker forms a choir of about 40 enlisted men. Sgt Albert Armstrong, motor sergeant from Baltimore, leads rehearsals with Pvt J A Esselman of Detroit. They practice semi classical Negro spirituals for Armed Forces Week events May 14 to 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus L. Hill
Chai
293Rd Engineer
Camp Rucker, Han
Albert Amstrong
Baltimore
J A. Esselman
Detroit
Armstrong
Chaplain Hill
Armed Forces
Checkup On Civilian Personnel Review At Camp Rucker
A Third Army civilian personnel team from Ft. McPherson completed a week long review of civilian personnel demonstrations at Camp Rucker. Members included Hammond B. Smith Edwards Norman Tena Brooks Marion B. Watfierd and Roberta Dunivin. The review aimed to assess delegated authority and adherence to Civil Service regulations while improving procedures and training. Norman noted the purpose was to aid ongoing improvements rather than a formal inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Army
Ft. McPherson
Camp Rucker
Hammond B. Smith
Edwards. Norman
Tena Brooks
Marion B. Watfierd
Roberta Dunivin
Pafford
Rucker
Gee
Third Army Area
Norman
Armed Forces Day events planned in Oxark town
A five day observance begins Monday and ends Saturday May 16 with an Armed Forces Bull at the Quark Community Center. Jointly organized by civic authorities and the 47th Viking Infantry, the observance includes a townwide security check with entry interdiction IDs, a liberation proclamation, and a military tour from Camp Rucker with air convoy and over 200 personnel. The Osark Street Day Dance at the Community House features marching units from the 1st Logistical Command and 47th Infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tee Obeervanse
Uninesamen Meader
Ae Waok
Quark
Armed Forces
Ultary
Viking
Intan- Rane Aie
Aultitery
Bia Lorian
Logiati Ee Eeeke
Roe Conan
Mark
Eyatem
Oxark
Miltary
Rucker
Lyri
Ade
Oecrde
1St
47Th Infantry Division
Osark
Training Test 7 in training teat record
Training Test 7 documents primary officers of the Chemical unit and their command. Captain Alfred Holsten is identified as leading a team tasked with operating a plant in a critical breadtce scenario, noted for an excellent rating by Major Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teat
Alfred Holsten
Or ‘Beth
Ead
Impres
Tsek
Bite
Critiane
Howard
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Jook
Tost
Nore Bruner
Faith Wikingon
Imogene Scarbrough
Jett Geannle
Edith
Dothan
Nora
Ashford
Betty
Jeane Parrish
Dohan
Barbara M. Niesen
Peter F Niesen
Headquarters Battery
47Th Civarty
Lake Minnietontka
Minn
Sheet Springs Pari
Mounds
Gract
Janie Teal
Engineers
Avon Route Three
Bennett
Montgomery Ward Barvice Dept
Peeny
Pangburn
Nunnally
Whitman
Dothan Drug CO
Fairgrounds
Homer Hawkins
Buddy Suggs
James Clanton
Harold White
D. M. Milton
Hoyt Etheridge
Bird Dog Haddon
James Moring
Burkett Howard
Joe Kirvin
Slocomb
Stevens
Montgomery
Hartford
Rocker
Tinea Reece
Post
Chaplain At Post
Adam's Peak
Ceylon
Tevel
Fost
Military Supplies Clothing
Barney
E. Main St
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