Tech Faculty Has 53 Men On Leave In War Service
Texas Tech is represented by 53 former instructors and professors on leave until victory. The list includes Lt. Col. Benjamin Bock and Capt. Truman Camp among others serving in the Army Air Forces, Navy, Coast Guard, and various defense roles across the country and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Texas
Tech
GEM
Bob Calley
Avalanche-Journal
Texas Tech
Byron R. Abernathy
National War Labor Board
Dallas
Douglas William Alden
Army Air Forces
England
Alden
Lubbock Army Airfield
Florida
France
Decker
Elle
C. G. Decker
Sanitary Corps
Camp Barkeley
Abilene
George O. Elle
Camp Howse
Neil Casey Fine
Navy
South Pacific
Charles Christopher Galbraith
Foster
Alan M. F. Gunn
John Harding
University of Michigan
Harding
Pacific
Whiteside Laundry
New York
West Coast Needs Navy Yard Workers
Navy yard representative J. G. Wood will visit the USES office at 1207 Thirteenth Monday to Wednesday to hire machinists electricians and sheetmetal workers for Mare Island Hunters Point Naval Drydocks and Puget Sound Navy Yard. Government travel and lawn housing are provided and essential industry status applies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
West Coast
J. G. Wood
Navy Yard
United States Employment Service Office
Mare Island Navy Yard
Hunters Point
Naval Drydocks
California
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Washington
Polish Priests Freed From Dachau Camp
The Polish telegraph agency reports 800 Polish Catholic priests freed from Dachau Germany many near death. The release occurred in New York on May 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Polish Telegraph Agency
Dachau
Germany
Veterans reunion recalls South Plains bonds in Pacific
Cpl Hop Halsey and Sgt Weston Parris, back from 14 months in the Pacific, recount meeting scores of South Plains youths during Marine Transport Air group service. They describe grapevine networks across bases from California to the Pacific and frequent reunions with Lubbock, Brownfield, Post, La Mesa, and Lorenzo friends, sharing stories of home and old papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Kwajalein
Pacific
Courthouse Square
Weston Parris
Cpl
Hop Halsey
Lubbock
Mariana Islands
Halsey
Cherry Point
N. C
Parris
San Diego
South Plains
119Th
B. F. Goodrich Company
Marine Transport Air Group
Weston
California
Lubbock and
R. C. Matheny
James E. Wells
Tohoka
T. R. O’dell
Haskell
Fred
Nub) Cook
E. G. Robinson
Post
Cotton Lindsey
Lamesa
Dave Shankle
M. B. Price
Brownfield
Junior Powell
W. O
Bill) Fortenberry
Monroe
Leete Jackson
Frank Tolbert
Dan Rogers
Cy Lamaster
C. C. Hill
H. T. Wilkins
Armond Sansom
Ernest Winter
Maurice Malone
Shallowater
Texas
Hop
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Return of pilot Halsey and family in Texas
Capt. Rogers Kelly and Lt. Col. William C. McGraw led a welcome for pilot Cpl. Halsey amid stories of Pacific service. Halsey briefed pilots on communications duties, noted time on Apamama Guam and Saipan, and received ribbons. He plans 30 day leave with wife Harriette Roach and two children at 3308 Twenty first, then to Cherry Point N C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Army Department of Intelligence
Mamie Jackson
Eastin Wolffarth
Thirteenth
Cpl
Halsey
Pacific
Apamama
Guam
Saipan
Sgt
Parris
Kwajalein
Denton
Collier Parris
Hilton Hotel
Collier
Avalanche - Journal
Porter
Camp Roberts
Calif
Harriette Roach
Hop, Jr
Suzanne
Mark Halsey
Cherry Point
N. C
Montgomery Thanks 21st Army Group for Surrender Victory
Field Marshal Montgomery sends grateful thanks to 21st Army Group commanders for un conditional surrender of German forces in Holland Denmark and northwest Germany praising their effort and expressing pride in leading the group. He asks commanders to convey thanks to their troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
21St Army Group
Montgomery
Holland
Denmark
Germany
B. L. Montgomery
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Cowan
San Saba
James Hollie Cross
University of Idaho
Gwynn “Mule” Dowell
Langston
L. Kipp
Sta Midland Army Airfield
AAP
Maj
Kipp
Lonnie Langseach
North Carolina
N. Cy
Ens
Department of Government
Done
Ald R. Larson
Coast Guard
T. L. Leach
el Navy
Southwest
E. T. Ruff
San Antonio
Reginald Rushing
Sheppard
Jesse Q. Sealey
RAF
Fort Worth
Tech. Stanley and
Spears
Cassius Miller Stanley
Army
Lewis Manuel
AAF
Haskell Grant Taylor
Department of Finance
Paris
Sgt. Taylor
Robert T. Vail
Cabot Co
Pampa
Robert Fulton
Montgomery Ward &C
Lubbock, Texas
Armstrong Warehouse & Transfer Co
Marines
Seabees
Pacific Area
Robert Dowell
Irvin
Moco) Smyer
Lorenzo
Max Walthall
George Stringer
Helen Penny
J. A. Blackwell
Murphy May
TAU Au
Chiropractor
Chiropractic Clinic
Fairbanks-Morse
Geo. W. Gray
Texas Avenue
Diel
Rogers Kelly
Edinburg
William C. McGraw
Atorney
Motorco
United Motors Service
Lubbock’s Top
Body and
Fender Shop
Dial
Grollmans
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Union Bus Terminal
Rida
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