Tar Heels In Far East Wish They Were Back In Dixie
North Carolinians in India and Burma share homesickness and cultural quirks as Red Cross workers recount life in Calcutta and Karachi. Veterans note weather, food, and a longing for Dixie while noting local scenes and fellow Tar Heels in clubs and on duty.
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Far East
Dixie
Red Cross
Faith Brewer
Calcutta
India
Army
AWC
ARC
WAC
Taj Mahal
Blowing Rock
Stimous Valentine
Raleigh
Judge Advocate
Delhi
North Carolina
Shelby
Judge Cate
Texas
Ohio
California
John Dorr
Brooklyn
Bill Sharpe
N. C
Tain Ronan Smith
Carolina
Burma
Bombay
Ledo
Myitkyina
Mitchanow
China’s Yangtse and Yellow Rivers Highlight World’s Key Waterways
The article notes China possesses two of the world’s great rivers, the Yangtse and the Yellow, underscoring their significance among global waterways and regional geography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Venable Brothers Serve Country In WWII Info List
Center and right flight officer Lawrence G Venable and Sgt Cleo M Venable are sons of Mr and Mrs I D Venable of 428 Tate Street. F O Venable entered service in 1948 and trained as a liberator pilot studying radar at Langley Field Virginia. Sgt Venable joined in 1942 stationed at Camp Breckinridge Kentucky with the 27th evacuation hospital and served overseas from April 1944 earning a high letter of commendation. A note mentions Paul D Freedie entering service in 1944 and training at Bainbridge and Gulfport now at Garracut Idaho with wife Ruth Blake and son at 510 Jarrett Street Thomasville.
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Lawrence G. Venable
Cleo M. Venable
I. D. Venable
Tate Street
F/O Venable
Langley Field
L. G. V le
P. H. Gurley
Sgt. Venable
Camp Breckenridge
Kentucky
Venable
Paul D. Freedie
Thomasville
Bainbridge
Basic School
Gulfport
Miss
Garracut
Idaho
Ruth Blake
Jarrett Street
Vaden Freedie
Thomasville Rt
David M. Warren
James Preston Warren
Pacific Theater of Operations
David
J. 0. Warren
High Point
Rt. 8
Preston
J. P. Warren
Rt. 3
Trinity High School
Tomlinson
Sgt Jack Gunter Reassigned After Furlough at Fort Bragg
M/Sgt. Jack Gunter moves to Fort Bragg for reassignment after a 30 day furlough spent with his wife and daughter and his mother Mrs. Loia Gunter of 406 Vine street. He is with the medical corps and has served eight months in the European theater of war.
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William E. Gordon, Jr
Fort Meade
Doris Gold Gordon
Barker Street
Camp San Luis Obispo
Calif
Jack Gunter
Fort Bragg
Loia Gunter
Vine Street
Hunter
Medical Corps
Aircrewman Hartwell Maxwell Reports to Maxwell Field Training
Julius Hartwell son of Mr and Mrs Arthur A Kessler of High Point North Carolina has reported to the pre flight school at Maxwell Field Alabama for the next phase of U S Army Air Forces training. Aviation cadets undertake ten weeks of intensive physical military and academic instruction.
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Hartwell
Maxwell Field
Ala
Julius Hartwell
Arthur A. Kessler
Rt. 2
High Point
N. C
AAF Training Command
U. S. Army Air Forces
Shipwash Returns from Southwest Pacific Assignment in Florida
Private Ken L Shipwash 24, brother of Mrs L H Guyer of High Point North Carolina, has returned from service outside the continental United States and is awaiting reassignment at the Marine Ground and Service Forces Re distribution Station in Miami Beach. He served 25 months in an infantry unit in the Southwest Pacific and earned the Asiatic Pacific campaign ribbon with three battle stars. He previously worked as a knitter at Triangle Hosiery Mills in High Point.
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Shipwash
Fla
Miami Beach
Kennety L. Shipwash
L. H. Guyer
Centennial Avenue
High Point
N. C
Continental
United States
Farmy Ground
Triangle Hosiery Mills
Ellington Home After 18 Months Overseas as Glider Pilot
First Lt. Charles B. Ellington, husband of Mrs. Lucille Ellington of Rt. 3, returns on a 30 day fur lough after 18 months abroad. He receives the Air Medal with two clusters, the European Theater of Operations with 7 battle stars, the Bronze Arrowhead, and a Presidential Citation. He reports to the O R D in Greensboro on August 22. Enlisted June 1942 after working in the florists business in this city.
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Ellington
Charles B. Ellington
Lucille Ellington
Rt. 3
O.R.D
Greensboro
Soldier Pfe. Pete Culler Reports Safe Arrival in Philippines
Mrs. P. L. Culler of 322 Greer street learned today that her son Pfe. Pete Culler has arrived safely somewhere in the Philippines.
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Philippines
P. L. Culler
Greer Street
Pfe
Pete Culler
Morgan Brothers in Service Spanning States to Philippines
Coll. John P. Morgan has landed in the Philippine Islands after 31 months with the air force in the states. His two brothers, S/Sgt. Hoyt H. Morgan in France and Pvt. Robert D. Morgan in Alabama, also serve. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Morgan of Rt. 4.
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Philippines
John P. Morgan
Philippine Islands
States
Air Force
Hoyt H. Morgan
France
Pvt
Robert D. Morgan
Alabama
J. O. Morgan
Rt. 4
Watterson Returns from Panama Theater to Fort Bragg
Raymond Watterson of the quartermaster corps returns to the United States after 37 months overseas in the Panama theater of operations. He will report at Fort Bragg before going home. While on leave he will visit his sister Mrs P W Helms.
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Watterson
Raymond Watterson
Quartermaster’s Corps
States
Panama
Fort Bragg
P. W. Helms
Brown Promoted to Pfc in Italy Service
Pfc. Joseph F. Brown, husband of Blanche Brown of Rt. 5, has been promoted from private. He serves in Italy with a quartermaster supply company as a truck driver.
Iwo Jima veteran Marine-Pfc John Spencer on furlough
Marine Pfc. John Walter Spencer 25, Iwo Jima veteran, is on furlough via Rest, his wife Helen Owens and their five year old child Judy live at 114 College Street. He is son of Mr and Mrs John Howard Spencer of 517 Tate Street High Isle. He served as a Fourth Marine Division machine squad ammunition carrier during the Iwo Jima battle.
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Spencer
San Diego
Calif
John Walter Spencer
Iwo Jima
John Howard Spencer
Tate Street
High 1
Fourth Marine Division
Helen Owens
Judy
College Street
Private Carl James Admitted For Treatment In Miami
Pvt. Carl James son of Mrs. Buehla James of High Point North Carolina has been admitted to the AAF regional and convalescent hospital in the Miami district Florida for treatment and rest.
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Fla
Miami Beach
Fila
Carl James
Buehla James
West Point Avenue
High Point
N. C
AAF
Miami District
Seaman Spencer Honored at Naval Training Center Memphis
Seaman 2/c Homer S Spencer Jr of Trinity NC has been named the outstanding man of Company 77 at the naval recruit training unit in Memphis. The award cites loyalty, duty, and dependability as key traits. He will proceed to aviation mantainence training in Norman Oklahoma after a ten day leave.
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Spencer
Naval Training Center
Memphis
Tenn
Homer S. Spencer, Jr
Trinity
Rt.2
North Carolina
Naval Recruit Training Unit
Aviation Ordnanceman School
Aviation Radioman School
Aviation Machinst’s Mate
Aviation Pecans
Norman, A
Watch built for Henry Fordson by Marcel Bonneville
Portland designer Marcel Bonneville claims Henry Ford ordered a peculiar watch for his son. The watch reportedly features twelve letters spelling Henry Fordson in place of the hour figures and miniature tractor cranks instead of hands.
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Portland
Ore
Marcel Bonneville
Henry Ford
Henry Fordson
Poets of Nature and Delta Tales by Mc Corkle
A regional note reviews George Washington Mc Corkle of Delta city. It highlights his book Local Port On and two-part collection Poems of Perpetual Memory and Rhymes from the Delta. The piece quotes passages about duty race and freedom, noting Burns influence and Mc Corkle's view on life and poetry.
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Delta
George Washington
Corkle
Louisiana
Bong’s Wife Plans California Return After Tragedy
The widow of Major Bong, who died in a plane crash near Burbank, discusses memorial ideas in Wisconsin. She mentions potential airport improvements in Superior, a musical scholarship, and a flying scholarship, noting Bong’s love of music as a young artist tutored by her husband.
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Wis
Marjorie Vendat
Richard
Eever
America
Superior
Major Bong
Lawrence and Oppenheimer Meet At Los Alamos Lab
Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence Nobel laureate and UC physicist met here with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer director of the government atomic bomb laboratory. A project spokesman called it a routine meeting amid secrecy. Lawrence has led work on atomic structure and nucleus.
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Dr. Lawrence
Los Alamos
N. M
Ernest O. Lawrence
University of California
J. R. Oppenheimer
Govern
Atomic Bomb Laboratory
Lawrence
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Red Cross Club
Azile Barron
Morganton
Assam
Ralph Jones
Goldsboro
Dorothy Platt
N. C. Shipbuilding Company
Wilmington
Karachi
Dottie
Beachhead
Ray Irwin
ATC
Joe E. Turner
Lexington
Calvin Ramesey
EF. Bumgardner, Jr
A. Kirby
Charlotte
Glen Starnes
Rex Starnes
Asheville
Lion J. Dvorsky
Durham
John E. Cooke
Brown Summit
David B. Walker
Gastonia
Jennings G. Rogers
Winston-Salem
William Parker, Jr
Tryon
Harold York
Jack Lorkman
Lincolnton
Robert Staley
Asheboro
Dallas
Oscar Edwards
Snow Hill
Roy G. Hill
Fayetteville
Waakie Smith
Lumberton
John T. Yarborough
Salisbury
Sanford Davenport
William McGregor Parker
Murray Blackwelder
Oscar A. Bishop
Fred M. Mull
Hickory
William Howard Harris
Greenville
B. L. Flowers
Marion
O. N. Pendergrass
N. Wilkesboro
American Red Cross
Miss Brewer
Rowan B. Brewer
Elbert Rd
The
Burlington Times-News
Ann Asheboro Couriere
Sanitone
Joy
Sartin Day Cleaning CO
English Street
O. C. Pitts
Winston- Salem Road
U. S
Okinawa
Woodrow M. Pitts
Lrc
Navy
South Pacific
Sgt
W. A. Bivins
John Keats
Tennyson
Old Central Hotel
Vic
McCorkle
Thelves
Bong
Ontv
Varsity Ray Gabardine
Mary Muffet
Clarilee
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