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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
8
Veterans and enlistees details include Master Sergeant Wilson who served overseas after Las Vegas Gunnery School and May 2 1941 enlistment. Basic training completed at Camp Hood Texas. Moore and Mayes noted in captions with overseas assignments and updates.
Walter C Muller, aboard Admiralty Island, writes of landing behind the front line, constant shelling and air raids, the fear at first then familiarity, intense heat, and many sandbags and foxholes. He sends best wishes to friends back home.
The text presents garbled reminiscences and quoted lines about censorship and distribution. It notes weekly copies, number 12, and mentions a person named Jack and a weather reference. The fragment ends with the line Weather Pearl Marhar awarded Silver Star.
A fragmentary Llano column recounts a Corsican bear hunt with locals and Corsicans, noting bear kill and a post hunt head share. It also lists service updates: 1st Lt Wade K Hill awarded the Silver Star in India after Italy service, plus furloughs and transfers for Army personnel including Cpl Joe Bailey Johnson and Lt G B Decker Wilson.
Reading through Llano week notes, Warren Kuykendall SSG serving in Italy with twenty missions. Peter Warbor Bonner Lackey Navy visiting Llano with family. Terri Harber Swede Strand from Fort Sam Houston visiting relatives. Thomas Dunaway at Lowry Field with father PDFL Dunaway. Clyde Earl Mordica in Army Air Forces in California visiting kin. Albert Fox at Camp Fannin visiting wife and son. J M Delz couple proud of seven pound son James Michael born June 1.
Llano private J. T. Johnson of the 6th Evacuation Hospital is lauded for heroic service at Anzio Beachhead. The unit, under Fifth Army command, treated over 1,100 patients in one day amid heavy shelling. Several staff earned Silver Stars, Meritorious Service, and other honors for their actions since landing at Salerno. Lt. Phillip Smith of the Marines visited Llano on leave with his parents. Avon representative Mrs. W. T. Atchison also noted.
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