Veteran Fifth Army To Be Broken Up In Europe
Caserta Italy July 7 The veteran Fifth Army will be broken up with seven divisions and two regimental combat teams sent back to the U S by February. The 85th Custer division will lead the return in August as the first all selective service division to be deactivated. Others to move include the 88th 91st 92nd and 473rd units with various timelines for redeployment and occupation duty in Germany and Trieste.
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SID Federal
Caserta
Italy
Fifth Army
Salerno
America
85Th
Custer
U. S. Army
United States
Pacific
Paigns
Germany
Tenth Mountain Division
Trieste
Tea
U. S
92Nd
34Th
Truman Signs Bonus for Front Line Army Medics
President Truman signed a bill granting non combatant Army medical corps personnel on front lines the same ten dollar monthly bonus paid to combat infantrymen, aligning benefits for medical service.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Army Medical Corps
Col Frank R Harris Reported Killed in New Guinea
Cpl Frank R Harris 23 nephew of Mrs M L Chambless 2205 B Fifteenth was killed June 16 over New Guinea the War Department informed. He had been missing in action after serving 28 months with the 339th Fighter Squadron 13th Air Force. He entered the Air Corps in 1943 after Lubock High School 1941 graduation and earned honors at Truax Field Madison Wis. His unit earned two citations for Cape Gloucester and Leyte. Frank H Harris father is seriously ill in Waco.
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Cpl
Frank R. Harris
M. L. Chambless
Fighteenth
New Guinea
War Department
Chambless
Cple Harris
339Th
13Th Air Force
Philippines
Air Corps
Lubbock High School
Truaxfield
Madison
Wis
Cape Glouchester
New Britain
Leyte
Frank H. Harris
Harris
Waco
Names Of Two Crash Victims Announced
Corpus Christi July 7 AP The Navy released the names of two naval aviators killed in a two plane crash near San Antonio Thursday night Ensign Ernest Vaughn Wallace 22 and Ensign Charles Jackson Loomis 19 both stationed at Kingsville Naval Air auxiliary station.
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Corpus Christi
San Antonio
Navy
Ernest Vaughn Wallace
Mound City
Kans
Charles Jack
Kingsville Naval Air Auxiliary Station
Amarillo Teen Author Publishes Get Hep For Bobby Soxers
Evelyn Jean McCarty of Amarillo authored Get Hep for the Bobby Sox set to explain teen slang in plain English. The book includes sketches and jingles and aims at stores and druggists. proceeds will fund her journalism studies at Columbia. Her father is Amarillo Globe News associate publisher. she plans to enroll in Pulitzer program this fall.
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Evelyn Jean McCarty
John McCarty
Amarillo
Bobby
Miss McCarty
America
Naylor Publishing Co
San Antonio
Mrs Lynwood Pirtle Returns With Family to Lisbon
Mrs. Lynwood Pirtle has returned from San Diego with her husband and daughter Lynnita and will reside with her mother Mrs. Ruby Collett at 2314 Ninth. Lt and Mrs Milton Scarbrough visit with Mrs Scarbrough's mother Mrs Ruby Leary at 2205 Thirteenth. A tobacco ceiling hike announced for 1945 tobacco used in cigarettes, one cent per pound higher, but cigarette prices not raised. The couple recently returned from a wedding trip to Colorado Springs. A Trailers club dance starts at 9 pm Tuesday at Meadowbrook club house.
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Lynwood Pirtle
San Diego
Ste¢ Pirtle
Pacific
Lynnita
Ruby Collett
Milton G. Scarbrough
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Meadowbrook
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Lubbock
Texas
Avalanche-Journal
Loomis
Charlotte B. Loomis
Washington, D. C
Bobby Soxers
Amer
Black
Fon Tromerv Ward
Colorado Springs, Colo
Corcorran’s
Texas Avenue
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