New Fighting 83rd Squadron Activated At Lubbock Field
The Fighting 83rd, later named The Fighting 88rd, is activated at Lubbock Army Flying School. Major Samuel K. Eck commands with Lieut Edgar A. James as adjutant. The unit becomes a mobile Air Service Command group with its own medical, finance, and police sections, ready to move to needed fields nationwide.
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Texas
Avalanche Journal
83Rd
Lubbock Army Flying School
Fighting 88Rd
Samuel K. Eck
Air Service Command
Fort Worth
Ohio
Thomas L. Gilbert
Eck
Edgar A. James
Perry C. Clapp
John H. Tierney
Henry Wray
LAFS
Theta ZI
Washington State College
Air Forces
Brooks Field
North Dakota State Highway Department
Kelly Field
Phoenix, Ariz
University of Arizona
Fort Sill
Okla
Camp Barkeley
James
Louisville
Purdue University
Clapp
Indiana
Fort Ben Harrison
University of Dayton
Tierney
Dayton
Wray
Rochester
New York
Camp Dix
N. J
Camp Lee
Camp di
John Clinton Burke, Jr
San Antonio
Kenneth Ziegler
Army
Oklahoma City
E. J. Smith
Denton
Snowden Gilert
Chickasha
Oklo
Morris H. Trifon
Set
Trifon
Houston
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Army Navy and Marine corps news from Uncle Sam
Mrs. Lora Z Wood of Littlefield learns her son Corp James Edward Wood is missing in action after Midway Island battle. Other briefs report aviation mechanics graduates, rank promotions, overseas orders, radio school, and Lieut James Wickersham Mc Cauley cited for gallantry with the U S Navy.
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Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Uncle Sam
Lora Z. Wood
Littlefield
Pacific
Corp
James Edward Wood
Midway Island
Corp. Wood
Hub Mason
Mason
Hub, Jr
Major Mason
Army Air Corps
W. H. Ballew
W. E. Ballew
Avenue O
Orlando
Fla
Ballew
Drewfield
Signal Corps Aircraft Warning Service
James Wickersham McCauley
U. S. Navy
Lieut
McCauley
Clarence G. McCauley
Vista
Calif
van Sanders
Lubbock
U. S. S. Enterprise
Lieut. McCauley
Kwajalein Atoll
Malelap Atoll
Pryor Hammons, Jr
Pryor Hammons
Long Beach
Deadline Set For Mailing Christmas Parcels Overseas
The War Navy and Postoffice departments set November 1 as the deadline to mail Christmas parcels to service men overseas. Weigh limits stay at six pounds for general parcels. censorship remains in effect and other limits apply.
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United Press
Washington
Navy
Postoffice
Local Officer On Duty At Lubbock Flying School
Capt. Lloyd E B Davis and Mrs. Davis reside at 2203 Seventeenth Street and are listed as on duty at the Lubbock Army Flying School with a school squadron per Col. Thomas L Gilbert. He is a member of Delta Phi Alpha and a graduate of Brown’s Business College and Knox College where he lettered in football.
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J. N. Porter
James W. Turnbow
M. L. Turnbow
Slaton
Aberdeen
Turnbow
Texas Tech
U. S. Army
Camp Hulen
Maryland
Wilda McCasland
B. C. McCasland
Lubbock
Tech
Tau Beta Pi
Alpha Chi
U.s.mle
Torch and Castle Club
Claude E. Boren
Field Artillery
Java
131St F. A
Boren
J. D. Morgan
Texas Technological College
England
Morgan
Seventh Street
Irene Maynard
Army Engineers
Brownwood
Camp Claiborne
Louisiana
Army Air Forces
Roger M. Parchman
Geo. W. Parchman
Lorenzo
Harlingen
Lloyd EB. Davis
Davis
Seventeenth Street
Rubbock Army Flying School
Thomas L. Gilbert
Delta Phi Alpha Fraternity
Brown
Busines College
Knox College
Terry boys in Eire sweep Irish headlines
Three Terry County boys, Elvin Roberts Jack Shepherd and Byron Sandage, are reported in Ireland. Roberts wrote home that he landed at Londonderry as part of the War Department’s largest convoy ever to cross the Atlantic.
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Eire
Terry County
Ireland
Elvin Roberts
Jack Shepherd
Byron Sandage
Roberts
E. L. Roberts
Londonderry
War Department
Atlantic
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Brownfield
Naval Radio Training School
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Otis Shadden
San Francisco
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Conn
George T. Perdue
Plainview
Jeanette MacDonald
Sheppard Field
Frank (Wank) Verner
Spur
Hawaiian, Islands
Capt
Major Henry Wray
C. C. Maloney, Jr
Seminole
Aviation Mechanics School
Frank H. Hudson
T. C. Hudson
Fred B. McMaster
L. E. McMaster
Broadway
Casper W. Wilson, Jr
C. W. Wilson
Fort Bliss
Robert Roach
Anton
Ned R. Roach
Chanutefield
Ill
Air Force Technical School
Harvey B. Maxey, Jr
Sioux Falls
S. C
Ralph T. Matthews
Northwestern University
Chicago
C. D. Claitor
Petersburg
Pendleton
Ore
J. H. Brewer, Jr
A. C. Strickland
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A. L. Smith
Route 4
Hamilton Field
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
Love Field
Dallas
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S. K. Frazier
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Chanute Field School
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Chanute Field
Charles Hickman
Seagraves
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U. S. Coast Guard
St. Petersburg
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Main Street
United States Maritime School
Doyle
B. J
Jack) Klein
W. E. Klein
Twenty-Sixth Street
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Hicks Field
Goodfellow Field
San Angelo
Lubbock High School
Klein
South America
Mexico
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W. B. Powell
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U. S. Naval Section
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Powell
Naval Reserve
New Mexico Military Institute
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Sweetwater
Iowa
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H. A. Piercy
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Pensacola
Ensign Piercy
Naval Reserve Aviation Base
Naval Air Station
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Ordnance Officers’ Training School
Y. Onstott
Ordnance School
Kendall
Ilinois
Onstatt
Pfc
Emil
Fort Lewis
Vance
Portland
Oregon
New Orleans Army Air Base
Rayford C. Roberts
New Orleans
L. B. Roberts
William H. Shorter
Levelland
Walter Woodrum
Finance Replacement Center
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Technician Woodrum
T. A. Bailey
Girard
June Woodrum
Avenue M
Henry Bobo
H. L. Bobo
Tenth Street
Fort Knox
131S Field Artillery
Camp Bowie
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C. J. Levy
West Thirtyfourth Street
Camp Carson, Colo
Bud Sherley
Artillery Officers Training School
Clinton Revins
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Australia
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Camp Sutton
North Carolina
Ordnance Training Center
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Aberdeen School
Randolph Field
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George W. Andrew
Shallowater
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J. M. Robertson
Sixth Street
Lubbock Army
John M. Graham
Florida
Wayne W. Smith
R. W
Dub) Cross, Jr
Glenn Kahler
George W. Reynolds
Dorman G. Kinard
Lamesa
Arthur M. Shook, Jr
Arthur Shook
Spencefield
Moultrie
Pat Carlton Porter
T. P. Holman
Camp Carson
Colo
G. W. Ratcliff
George Ratcliff
California
Compton
Joe Shirley
Maxwell Smith
Granville Brownlow
Navy Training School
San Diego
G. B. Thacker
Donald Groves
J. A. Groves
Ray Sims
Garlin Murphy
Sheppardfield
A. D. “Spot” Patton
Camp Cook
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Campbell
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Corregidor
Black
Albuquerque, N. M
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