WACs Foster Orphans at St Joseph’s in Mannheim
WAC Company D 7888th Special Troops and the Ordnance Stock Control Center unit near Mannheim support St Joseph’s Orphanage. They fund renovations, furnish beds and linens, repair a damaged room and steps, and plan a modern laundry to aid 80 children including 30 infants, dedicating evenings and weekends year round.
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Mannheim
Germany
Women's Army Corps
St. Joseph's Orphanage
U. S. Army
WAC Company D
WAC
Ordnance Stock Control Center
Wacs
nesThey
Foamy
Super-Service Man Station Opens in Seoul for Troops
Seoul report describes a new quonset hut station offering gasoline, travel information, vehicle maintenance, first aid, and coffee for soldiers. Corporal Robert W. Lehman of the 740th Ordnance Battalion explains MPs use the service hub to check trucks Jeeps and other vehicles and provide maintenance tips to save time and money for the 40th Division. The MPs also operate the first aid and travel booths and respond to vehicle incidents in the division area.
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Seoul
Aain
Robert W. Lehman
153Rd St. Flushing
N.Y
40Th Dision
Lehman
Coyotes Reported Scarce This Year
GRANDFIELD Okla Grandfields two flying coyote hunting cams report a scarcity of the narrie wolves and that business as been slow compared to pre vious years. The teams, composed of two pilots, have been bebe aortate the limit. Frank J. Tisdale and Earl Andrews, a three year team were joined by Sherman Wollam and E. H. Lagrone recently. During their last flight, one coyote was killed and another crippled animal finished the kill with his shotgun. is ee crease in the number of traffic coats in aoa during 1953 as compared to
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Grandfield
Okla
Grandfeld
Bebe
Sherman Wollam
E. H. Lagrone
Aoa
Army Praised By Wounded Vet's Parents
H Sturt McEachen of Brooklyn writes to Army General praising the care his son Private First Class John S McEachen received after being wounded in Korea. McEachen describes shell fragments injuring his spine and shoulder, the rapid medical response, and the flight nurse who tended him aboard a plane to Tokyo. He credit s the Medical Corps, medic, and flight nurse for the quality care and expresses gratitude for the attention given to his son.
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Yokohama
H. Stuart McEachen
Brooklyn
N.Y
John S. McEachen
Department of the Army
Korea
McEachen
Tokyo
Young McEachen
Second Infantry Division
15Th Field Artillery
Buddy
Japan
Sasebo
Teast
Ns Fea
George
Air Force
Billy Graham Tour Report Cites Decisions in London
The Billy Graham organization reports that since the London crusade began seven weeks ago, 714 persons have spoken to him in public, and 16 725 have decided for Christ. Graham plans a U S tour of England based at air bases in April while Oklahoma road travel data show a four percent rise over 1952.
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Billy Graham Organization
London
Graham
U.S. Air Force
England
Space Ship Ride at Virginia Post Captures Imaginative Tour
Visitors board a dramatized space voyage led by Ambrogio at Fort Belvoir. The make believe craft blasts off as skies whirl and the audience follows a ten day round trip through clouds oceans and polar ice before returning to base.
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Virginia Post
U. Arsay
Tove Bess
Rene
Ambrogio
Mibrogio
Nasmuide
Perthale
Earth
Fort Belvoir
Whitaker
Trav
Bayonet Training Evolves From Fencing In Early Army Drills
Historical notes trace bayonet use from formal fencing drills to practical battlefield prep. Emphasis on unison movements, shouted commands, and simultaneous handling of bayonet, wall scaling, wire crawling, and log bridge balancing. Korea saw a surge in bayonet use amid terrain and enemy factors.
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Korea
U. S
MPs In France Are Diplomats In Uniform
A fragment notes MPs in France serve as diplomats with an American MP a French military police member and a French civilian gendarme forming patrols. They prepare for a planned party for French orphans as part of a distant effort. In Oklahoma, a county grade choral festival is expected at Northwestern State College with Woods seals water anticipated.
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524Th
French Police Militaire
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