Light cruiser USS Birmingham crewed by Elba Navy veterans
G D Sanders seatmap second class USNR and James Irvin Farris carpenters mate fire USNEH helped the Light cruiser USS Birmingham build a 194,000 mile record and take part in major Pacific campaigns Tarawa Wake Leyte Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The Birmingham earned 533 awards including the Navy Cross Silver Star Air Medal and Bronze Star. The ship suffered 264 killed and numerous wounded during operations.
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James Irvin Farris
Birmingham
Tarawa
Wake
Treasury Islands
Marianas
Western Carolinrs
Leyte
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
ARMORING HEROES AND FORD STRIKE VOTES REPORTED
Articles note Corporal Arthur Bolen Lane discharged after 30 months overseas with the 339th Infantry and 85th Division, plus Navy veteran return aboard USS Anzio. Ford workers vote near unanimous strike support amid wage increase fights as UAW CIO presses for settlement.
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Associated Press
Motor
National Labor Relations Board
Detroit
General Motors
Chrysler Corp
United Auto Workers (Cio
NLRB
Uaw-Cio
Veterans Arrive Stateside From Overseas Service
The Associated Press lists returning veterans including Pie James L Elmore aboard the John Howland in New York and T-4 Audrey Fo Carroll aboard the Norway Victory in New York. Also mentioned are Private George Dasinger aboard the Santa Pala in New York and SSgt William Blaine Achfard, Corporal Lee Q Melord Ovark, and TS Grads Jackson aboard the Enterprise in San Francisco. Other names include Pie Charlie Wo Rrean Fa faula aboard the General George Geetha a and Curtis Hardy aboard the King S Woolsey in New York.
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Associated Press
Pie James L Elmore Dothan
John Howland
New York
Audrey Fo Carroll Dothan
George Dasinger Dethan
Arstel G Johnson Frirriprise
President Pak
San Francsco
New Caledonia
Tset Haskell C Bieer Ardalusia
San Francisco
William Blaine Achfard
Army air forces separates two Headland men at San Antonio
Two men from Headland, James H Burnham and T5 Robert J Boone, are separated from the Army Air Forces at the San Antonio AAF Personnel Distribution Command. Boone served 27 months in Europe as a radar operator and Burnham served 28 months in Iceland as a welder.
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AAF
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Europe
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Iceland
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