Servicemen from Lubbock area in WWII update
Lubbock and nearby town service members return from overseas duty or receive new assignments. Promotions, medals, and transfers are announced for air and ground crew across the Pacific, Europe, and Mediterranean theaters, with many families noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denman, Jr
Lubbock
Lrst National Bank
Aviation
Allied Air Power
Mediterranean
Denman
Women in Se Service Training Officers and Relatives
In the Pacific and Atlantic theaters, women Marines and sisters in the SPARS and WAC groups are noted. Marine 2nd Lt Elizabeth Holbrook serves as synthetic training officer at Mojave while teaching dead reckoning navigation. Cpl Emily G Greer has arrived in Hawaii as a stenographer. Sisters Jessie Hartley and Dorothy Hartley work with SPARS, Coast Guard, at various training posts. Lt Lora L Weddle is promoted to first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps with overseas service. Sgt Osie L Clark receives the meritorious service patch for exceeding West Virginia recruiting quotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Reasonover
USMC
Pacific
Hawaii
San Diego
Cpl
Reasonover
Marine Corps
Lockney
L. E. Reasonover
Leona Frances
Sulphur Springs
Crawford
M Reasonover
Pfc
Glen Reasonover
Biak Island
Harold R. Taylor
C. Ja W. Reasonover
Lubbock
Navy Department
Wi Weaver F. Medlin
W Sam
Pacific Area
Medlin
Sam H. ‘Weaver
Claude B. Hurl
Lubrock
Samford High Sachool
Prior Medlin
Needles Company
Texas Tech
James T. Medlin
Temple
Glyn
Elsie Marie
Stamford
Marshall Formby
England
Cambridge
Lone Star State
Formby
Paris
McAdoo
The
Toreador
Albert Joel Smith, Jr
A. J. Smith
Army
Carlsbad Army Airfield
P/O Smith
Carlsbad
Albert Smith
Texas Ech
Will Stacy
Route 2
Delma Ray Stacy
Saipan
Willie L. Stacy
Wilburn
Stacy
West Coast
Wilie
Will Wilburn
Kingman
Ariz
Lubbock High School
Parris Island
S. C
Santa Ana
Calif
Lewis L. Walker
Lee Walker
Avenue K
AAF
Santa Ana Army Air Base
Sgt
Walker
8Th Air Force
Germany
Personel Distribution Command
Army Air Forces
Marianas
Joseph W. Stephens, Jr
Tex
Stephens
Central
Western Pacific
Stephen
J. W. Stephens
Ave. P. Lubbock
Nadine
Stanton
Post
Sixth Army Group
France
John J. Mopper
343Rd Engineer Regiment
Sixth Army
U. S
Seventh Army
Ris Cra
Rhine
Hopfer
Seilles
Lyons
Alexander
Patch
Oran
Tunisia
Citatiur
Sicily
Italy
Hopper
R. E. Overstreet
Lubbock H.:i. School
University of Texas School of Medicine
Galveston
Leslie Mall
Ne Medical Corps
343Rd
Hall
Bataan
George Perkins
Gale Lantry
Belgium
J. A. Staney
Perkins
38Th
First Army
In- Perkinsfantry
Wirzfeld
United States
Pfc. Perkins
Camp Hulen
Camp Wallace
Camp Chafee
Ark
Pvt
Dale Pepper
Sharla
Scott
Avenue X
Camp Robinson
Little Rock
Dr. Pepper Bottling Company
Pisa
ATC
Casablanca
Bobby M. Scott
William R. Scott
Texas
Cates Air Base
Air Transport Command
Europe
Russia
Middle
Far East
Melvin B. Asp
Africa
Middle East
Sparta
Tenn
Curtis Field
Lubbock Army Airfield
6Th
Long Beach
Aspermont High School
Aspermont
Armed Forces
Kathryn Kobler Scott
Denver
Col
Marine
Elizabeth Holbrook
Winfield Holbrook
Plainview
Marine Air Station
Mojave
Holbrook
University of Colorado
Braniff Airways
Dallas
Brownsville
Naval Air Station
Corpus Christi
Civil Air Patrol
Raymond T. Holbrook
Hawaiian Islands
Emily G. Greer
Usmcwr
Elizabeth Greer
Morton
Greer
Lufkin’s Business College
Bakersfield
Bakersfield Abstract Co
Jessie Hartley
Dorothy Hartley
Floydada
SPARS
Coast Guard
Jessie
Palm Beach
Fla
Washington, D. C
Dorothy
Manhattan Beach
N. Y
Atlantic City
N. J
Washington
Daney Courtney
Idalou
United States Army
New Caledonia
Lora L. Weddle
Charles L. Weddle
Bonham
Army Nurse Corps
Weddle
Bonham High School
Lubbock General Hospital
Weddit
Joe T
Robert
Navy
Charleston
W. Va
Osie L. Clark
WAC
W. B. Fant
West Va
Clark
United Drug Co
Bluefield
Henry E, Clark
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Unclé Samax
E. J. Carter
Zéth Aaf
Alexandriarmy Airfield
Exandria
Carter
J. Martin
Grand Prairie
Leroy M. Floyd
Wars, J. H. Floyd
Slaton
U. S. ‘Stime Service Radio Trainingtation
Gallups Island
Boston Harbor
Mass
Laton
Merchant Marine
James E. Floyd
Amarillo
Altus Army Air Field
Roland M. Hurt
Frank i B. Hurt
HART
Randolph Field
Willie B. Chandler
1910
Ave. N
432Nd Quartermaster Bakery Company
Jacob L. Devers
RAF Engineer Command
John M
Henry ©. O'Neal
Portland Army Air Base
Wash
Robert J. Munn
Opal T. Williams
Twentyfourth
H. C. Munn
Munn
Donald R. Cornelius
Air Medal
Eighth Air Force
Cornelius
Berlin
Ermin L. Cornelius
Coxswain
Davis
Smokie) Warren
San Francisco
Davis, Jr
War
Ren
Deilla Parker
Warren
Palau
Leyte
Luzon
Lingayen Gulf
Theodore S. Wilkinson
3Rd Amphibious Force
Coxswain Warren
Coronado Island
Lawrimore Oil Company
12Th Aaf
Mediterranean Theater
Leon B. George
Orion
12Th Air Force
Italian Alps
George
Keesler Field
Miss
Leo George
Orton
John Wesley Brown
E. Scurry, Slaton
South Pacific
University of Illinois At
Urbana
Brown
Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima
Moody Field
Charlie Webster Boone
Levelland
Blackland Army Air Field
Waco
James C. Smith
Charles Frederick Smith
Bettye DuVall Smith
Ave. N. Lubbock
Blackland Army Airfield
Smith Smith
Paul
Carl
Paul W. Moyers
Ave. O
Jasper G. Moyers
Quartermaster Corps
Pfe
Carl J. Moyers
Gera
Jasper
Fort Myers
Pampa Aaf
Camp Hood
Yeoman
Barnee Haile
Gladys Jeffers
New Guinea
Haile Morotai
Philippines
Admiral Barber
Yeoman Haile
Draughon
Business College
Orland Wages
Miriam Wages
Thirteenth
Miami Beach
Homer D. Wages
Route 3
Canton
William H. Riley
Audrey Riley
Army Air Forces Central
Laredo
Riley
Fla—Net
James N. Cathey
Cathey
W. S. Cathey
Nana L. Cathey
Army Nurses Corps
Ellis Griff Boyles
H. G. Boyles
Sudan
Boyles
William D. Knight, Jr
96Th Bombardment Group
Knight
Munster
W. D. Knight
Elfreda T. Knight
Air Force
Polveralty
Arizona
Ech
Sultan
Burma
Melvin C. Crump
Box
Mars
Song Points
Billy D. Bell
Spur
Marianna
Spur High School
McMurry College
Abilene
Aerial Armament School
Lowryfield
Colo
Roy
James
Noy Britt
Lois Britt
C. A. Britt
Ave
Camp Peary
Shoemaker
Pampa Army Airfield
Pampa
14Th Naval District Motion Picture Exchange
Clyde C. Smith
Crosbyton
Smith
C.C. Smith
Myrtle Smith
Tenth Air Force
Jesse L. Bolch
B. B. Bolch
Lamesa
India
Bolch
12Th Bombardment Group
O'Donnell High School
RAF
Tokyo
Billy Hancock
USNR
Betty Hancock
Tohoka
Navy Flyer
1 Air Group Four
Hancock
Kavieng
New Ireland
L. N. Hancock
Camp Roberts
Shirley L. Garrison
Cpl. Garrison
S. H. Garrison
Route 1
Pyote Army Air Field
William Aubrey McCarty
Pyote Army Airfield
Pyote
Second Air Force
C. J. McCarty
McCarty
Mary G. Brown
Wm. ¥. Brown
Pine Bluff
Charles L. Cobb
Main
Texas Technological College
Law School
Oklahoma University
Adjutant General's School
Foreign Claims Service
Delma Ray
Willie L
Kenneth A. Gordon
P. Gordon
Ave. E
New London
Conn
Gordon
Gordon Submarine Service
Vernon Public
Great Lakes, Ill
Ledyard Earl
Buddy) Crites
Thomas E. Crites
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Crites Crites
Oberlin College
Ohio
Southwestern
Ninth Air Force
Ancil M. Douthit
George S. Patton, Jr
U. S. Third Army
Geneva
Patton
Douthit
Roer
Merzig
Third Army
Saarlautern
Lorene Douthit
Fort Knox
Eugene D. Throckmorton
Lubbock, Tex
Armored School
L. Stroud
Maureine Stroud
Fourteenth
Signal Corps
Grmany
Ger- Stroud Many
Cpl. Stroud
J. W. Stroud
Ave. L
Army Air Forces Engineer Command
J. A. Hall, Jr
301 Ave. U
Allied Force Headquarters
Marlin T. Sinclair
W. T. Sinclair
Eighth
Armed ‘Forces Institute
Las Ver G
Nev
Plant Pa
Tampa
325Th Aaf Base
Jacob D. Phy
Acti
Algiers
al- Beria
Tennessee
Phy
Q. O. di
Elcith
Clifferade
Harmon
Cor Harmon
Watson
Dpfe
Edwin M. Coffman
Floyd Coffman
Littlefield
Pvt. Coffman
India-Burma
Camp Beale
Wylie H. Summerlin
720 Ave. N
749Th
434Th Troop Carrier Group
Hubert T. Webb
Sixth
Willem Wilson Garner
Garner
Oscarine Garner
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