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Service Five locals complete four weeks of combat training
Local men listed include PVT Gene Yates PVT Sherman Johnson PFC James Boggs PVT Roger Duggins PVT Oscar Whitehead and PVT Thomas Parham who began basic combat training at Fort Jackson South Carolina. Navy entries note ENS Billy Hall served aboard USS Hancock and NAVAL Aviation Cadet William Webb graduates preflight training at Pensacola. Other Army air and support unit members named with details of assignments promotions and home towns.
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Infantry Training Regiment
Camp Lejeune
Gene Yates
W. B. Yates
High Point
Sherman R. Johnson
Robert R. Johnson
van Buren St
James R. Boggs
J. E. Boggs
Nathan Hunt Dr
Thomas E. Parham
Lee R. Parham
Wiltshire St
Fort Jackson
S. C
5Th Training Regiment
U. S. Army Training Center
Infantry
ARMY
Norman E. Haltom
Jesse V. Haltom
Council St
Thomasville
25Th Infantry Division
Hawaii
Haltom
Schofield Barracks
The
Brookdale Carving Co
Naval Aviation
William L. Webb, JR
William L. Webb
Woodrow Ave
Nval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla