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Newspaper

Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 16, 1942

Page

3

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Terry Boys Eire Terry County Ireland Elvin Roberts Jack Shepherd Byron Sandage Roberts E. L. Roberts Londonderry War Department Atlantic

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