Statistical Sergeant Interview Inspired by Army News Memo
A Sioux City air field feature recounts a buck sergeant who spent 25 months as a solitary weather observer near Point Barrow Alaska. He reads the 1941 World Almanac during long shifts and jokes about rotation plans, points totals, and the vast U S land and population as he recalls overseas service.
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Sioux Sentinel
Sioux Falls Army Air Field
AP News
K.P
Point Sarrow
Alaska
Sarge
U. S
Ltwell
Covington
Clemensen
Mountain Dew With A Chaser Too
Maryland moonshiners fled federal agents tossing jugs of mountain dew into the road washout ended chase at a washed out bridge. Judge W Chesnut sentenced Kessell Sh and Cleet Jolly to two years in jail and fined each $1,000 after the hour long pursuit.
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Baltimore
Alcohol Tax Unit
Maryland
W. Calvin Chesnut
Kessell E. Sh
Cleet Jolly
Alaska and South Dakota pass through a comical briefing
The narrator riffs on Alaska’s tramways sled roads and fur seals while joking with Sarge about South Dakota. He notes South Dakota as the Coyote State, admitted in 1889 with a playful misstatement of facts. The exchange ends with a cut to the mess hall as editors remark on almanac discrepancies.
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Alaska
Pribilof
Sarge
South Dakota
Ex Army Men Report To Draft Boards In High Point
Two High Point selective service boards record men with honorable discharges reporting. Board five logged 43 veterans over the prior week and board four 146 over the prior two weeks, with lists naming dozens of individuals including Theodore R. Bruce Randall Sappenfield Howard Howell Elvie Perdue William Linville Jr James Ershler Robert Joyce and many others.
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High Point Selective Service Boards
Aes Moggng
Board Four
Board Five
Theodore R. Bruce
Randall B. Sappenfield
Howard E. Howell
Elvie J. Perdue
William A. Linville, Jr
Harry Ersh
James D. Allen, Jr
Clarence O. Fritts
James D. George N. Drakalakos
Joseph S. Patterson
Ernest A. Brookshire
Herbert O. Bizzell
Arland L. Hayden
George F. Pierce
Jacob F. Eanes
Glenn N. Guyer
Spencer R. Caudell
William C. Sink
Edgar C. Eldridge
Howard E. Sisk
Samuel J. Robin
Ray A. Yow
Carl L. Williams
Paul Davis
John Edwards Titley
Carson C. Black
Tommy C. Webb
William C. Paschal
James B. Ruddock
Harold M. Roach
Jesse B. Haynie
Robert O. Jackson
David N. McCormick
John W. Overman
Thurman A. Toomer
Ulysses J. Dennis
Emmett G. Corder
Austin
Craughn
Nolan Edgar Tucker
Robert C. Revel
Lewis M. Hester
Herman A. Hethcox
Frank H. Sink
Claude A. Rutledge
Willie B. Yow
Alfred A. Wiseman
William A. Robertson
William C. Fish
David E. Taylor
John D. Byrd
Robert C. Mabe
William M.land
Joseph M. Kersey
Harold R. Kimsey
Godrow W. Reddick
George C. Estes, Jr
Luther J. Marshall
Earle W. Shelley
Drewery E. Smith
Frank H. Cofflin
Richard W. Noah
Pearly E. Thomas C. Prevatt
James M. McLeod
Julius N. James
An N. Johnson
Luther C. Steele
Ben A. Jeffers
Robert L. Everhart
Rufus C. Caudle, Jr
Cecil O. Faircloth
Raymond A
Quints Return Home From War Together in Rolla
Rolla quintuplets Sgt Bill Whites and Cpls Paul Null Gerald Jones Dorsey Slone and Jesse Whittaker return from overseas with five battle stars each. They enlisted the same day and served with the 612th engineers light equipment company on the Normandy front. They landed in the U S together after Japan's surrender. Also note 58 million pairs of shoes produced for the army in 1945.
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Rolla
INS
Bill Whites
Paul Null
Gerald Jones
Dorsey Slone
Jesse Whittaker
612Th Engineers Light Equipment Company
Normandy
United States
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Army Cub
Gt Bartners
Lawson
Burtner
East Green ST
Draft Board
Clapp
TOO, Ata&p
Ballard's
Obelisk
Red
Woodbur
Pillsbury
Sunnyfield
IONA
Imilar
Dumbarton Oaks
Marvel Bread
Sona
PEAS
Campbell’s Tomato
Bologna
Fryers
Bakery
DAIR
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