Unclear text draft on Hartford cemetery and bomber load
Fragmentary OCR paragraph mentions Hartford cemetery Holman Hartford dinecusng Sariiiing Siaude & ron names Hendrix Harilad Steve Hendriz Philadelphia Williar Johnson and others. Then references a B-17 bomber load on Albert Cumbie Gus Harrison and a long mm being two tons while J Rey Camp gh rt runs it at 4490 pounds.
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Leod
Ehtratag Burgi
Hartford Cemetery
Holman Af
Hartford
Siaude & Ron
Hendrix Harilad
Viother
Steve Hendriz
Phosida
Mrs Annie Camp Dies In Columbus
Mrs Annie Camp of Columbus dies at a Columbus hospital Sunday after a short illness. Funeral services were held today at Winnin Coura with Rev Albert Davis officiating. Burial followed at Mt Enon Cemetery, Ward Wilson in charge. Survived by two sons G S Camp of Dothan and C H Camp of Macon, three daughters Mrs W Pitts, Mrs Reeves of Columbus, Mrs R Methison of DeFuniak Springs, three sisters Mrs Matte Fort, Mrs Rosa Holton of Texas, Mrs E C Cum Anm of Traston, and several grandchildren. Active pallbearers listed.
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Annie J Camp
Fresty-Sever
Columbus
Houston County
RT Methison
DeFumak Springs
Matte Fort
Adienta Gs
Rosa Holton
Hicho
Tex
E C Cum
Hurley
Houston Soldier’s Unusual Duty Ties Japanese Prisoners
Fierney Dukes of Dothan Alabama serves as a medic tying the hands of Japanese prisoners after surrender at a Western Pacific advance base. Assigned to an Infantry unit under Lt Joel Beard, Dukes accompanies patrols on mop up missions that have resulted in 532 Jeeps killed and 13 prisoners captured in two weeks. The largest group of surrendering prisoners totaled five, led by a Navy lieutenant commander. Dukes trained at Camp Robinson and Camp Barkley, later deployed to the Pacific in December 1943, with service in British Samoa New Caledonia and Emirau in the Bismarck Archipelago.
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Fierney Dukes
Corpelia Dukes
Dothan
Aximen
Dukes
Edvarce
Joel Beard
Douglassville
Tex
Ceco C. Hodges
Colgan
Gerove
Roben F. Johnson
Navy
Camp Robinson
Ase
Camp Barkley
Pacific
British Samoa
New Caledonia
Emiray
Bismark Archipelago
Navy lists 39 Wiregrass recruits enlisted in May
The Dothan Navy station announced 39 Wiregrass youths enlisted in May. Some have reported for duty. others await call. Recruits include Alphonse Anderson Winter and Foy Philips Jr of Dothan. Benjamin Cox Rountree and Alfred Ernest Bryan of Dothan. Aviator Cadets, Enterprise crewmen Ernest Walden Jr and Jacob Gunter. WAVES Ann Gior dani and Mary Frances Brannon. radio techs Victor Sellers, Coleman Garrett, and several named from Dothan, Midland City, Headland, Geneva, Ozark, Abbeville, Cottonwood, Newville.
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Navy
Dothan
R. E. Macdonald
Chuef Macdonald
Lst
Alphonse Anderson Winter
Foy Philips, Jr
William Franklin Wheelus
Cottonwood
Lonnie Allen Kirkland
Webb
Harry Arnold Nowell
Robert Evans Gissendanner
Midland City
Woodham
Rudolph Peterman
Columbia
Benjamin Cox Rountree
Alfred Ernest Bryan
Emmet Leon Sport
Headland
Hobson Watson
Enterprise
Ernest Walden
Jacob Gunter
WAVES
Ann Giordani
Camp Rucker
Mary Frances Brannon
Geneva
Victor Sellers
Coleman Franklin Garrett
Jimmy Harold Bond
William Bryant Ard
Ozark
William Henry Creel
Abbeville
Charles Edward Qut Jaw
Edgar Earl Bostock
Newville
Angus Bush Thomas
Bily Gene Hicks
Napier Officer Dies in Crash At Field
Second Lt. Robert W. Parker, 19, of Lima Pennsylvania, was killed when a P-40 crashed northwest of Napier Field during a routine training flight. Colonel Daly announced this was the field’s first fatality in 1,076,000 miles of training. A board of RAF officers will determine the crash cause.
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Napier Field
Robert W. Parker
Charles J. Daly
Daly
Parker
A L Parker
Barren Road
Lima
Pennsylvania
RAF
Honorable Discharge for Jack Arlee Kennedy
Jack Arlee Kennedy, eighteen, son of Mr and Mrs W M Kennedy of Donalsonville Ga formerly of Midland City, has received an honorable discharge from the US Navy and has returned home. Enlisting in 1944, he trained at Camp Peary and served aboard USS Rinehart in Norfolk. Wounded in Europe, he was treated at Portsmouth NH Naval Hospital, aided the Red Cross drive, and was discharged there at age 18. He plans to attend college via the Veterans Administration after a period of rest. He lived at Grimes and Midland City for 12 years.
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Jack Arlee Kennedy
W M. Kennedy
Donalsonville
Midland City
Navy
Dothan
Trang
Camp Peary
Norfolk
U.S. Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
N. H
States
American Red Cross
U. S. Naval Service
Naval Hospital
Veterans’ Administration
Grimes
Soldier Discharged After 45 Months Service
Pfc Melvis Jordan of Gordon route one has been honorably discharged from the Army at Fort McPherson Separation Center after 45 months in the Infantry. He trained at Camp Croft and served in Panama, Australia, New Guinea, and Luzon P I with the unit's public relations office announcing the retirement from active duty.
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Melvis Jordan
Gordon Route One
Army
Fort McPherson
Infantry
Camp Croft
Panama
Australia
New Guinea
Luzon
P. I
Train Derailment Injures Several in Georgia Coast Line Crash
An Atlantic Coast Line northbound passenger train derailed today between Welbourner and Hinesville Georgia while en route from Florida to New York. Sheriff Paul Sikes reported about six to eight people injured though details remained uncertain. The damaged tram car No 18 plowed into the roadside area as emergency crews arrived.
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Hinesville
Atlantic Coast Line
Florida
New York
Welbourner
Paul Sikes
Walbhourville lanes derailment injures five cars
Sheriff reports five cars derailed at Walbhourville lanes. Injured individuals were taken to Hospitia in Jersup. Authorities described the scene and noted damages and alleged injuries with limited readable details.
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Cpm Innich
Walbhourville
Hospitia
Jersup
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