Local Service News Highlights Service Members
A1C Donald Mitchell of Old Union Road was named Airman of the Quarter at Selfridge AFB for the first quarter, with 36 college credits and studies at Macomb and Port Huron. Marine Lance Corporal Wallace L. Higgins, son of Mount Vernon residents, graduated from NCO School at Camp Pendleton.
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Donald Mitchell
Old Union Road
Vernon
Selfridge Afb
Mitchell
Selfridge Air Force Base
Michigan
Macomb
Port Huron
Glenda Overby
Mt. Vernon
Camp Pendleton
Calif
FHTNC
Wallace L. Higgins
Harold Higgins
South 17Th St
Mount Vernon
Division Schools Center
Marine Corps
Wichita Falls
Tex
Gary L. Whitlow
Chester E. Whitlow
Fairfield
Ill
U. S. Air Force
Sheppard Afb
Whitlow
Pacific Air Forces
PACAF
Clark AB
Philippines
U.S
Pacific
Fairfield Community High School
Air Force
Belleville
David S. Shelton
Harry W. Shelton
Clinton
Collinsville
U.S. Air Force
Scott Afb
Shelton
Military Air Transport Service
MATS
U. S
Ferrell F. Payne
Grand Fork Afb
Grand Fork
N.D
Payne
Hg. Sq. 319Th Combat Support Gp
H. A. Rinehart
Finewart
Grand Forks Afb
Opdyke
Rita Gail Roane
Ellise Roane
Jodie
San Diego
James H. Halstead
Leo H. Halstead
Salem Rd
Marine Recruit Depot
Raining
Fleet Marine Force
U. S. Air Force Academy
Colo
Obbie T. Atkinson
Obbie O. Atkinson
Linnview
Army
Navy
Atkinson
Mount Vernon Township High School
California
New Hampshire
Fort Benning
Department of Defense
Will the cake thief return the dessert for evidence
A police poster from a Midwestern city asks the person who took a three layer chocolate cake from the sergeant’s office to return it. It notes the cake is needed as evidence in a food poisoning case.
On This Date War, Waterloo and World War II Highlights
History notes mark 1812 Congress declares war on Britain and 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo. 1910 Nazis seize Cherbourg, 1942 Churchill visits US, 1943 Wavell named viceroy, 1915 Buckner dies in Okinawa. Past decade France’s Mendes-France premier chosen, Baton Rouge governor seized, and 1959 arrests in Gadsden navigate civil rights era.
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U.S. Congress
Great Britain
Napoleon
Waterloo
Cherbourg
Winston Churchill
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sir Archibald Wavell
India
U.S
Simon Buckner
Okinawa
Pierre Mendes-France
France
Louisiana
Furt Long
Baton Rouge
Gadsden
Ala
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Noble
Paul F. Myers
USN
Raymond S. Myers
Warville
Arca
Pactic
Caribbean
Guantanamo Bay
Twentynine Palms
David H. Overturf
Dorothy Eubanks
Casey Ave
Marine Corps Base
Twentynine Palm
USS
Collett
Charles B. Martin
Bluford
Shimoda
Japan
Commodore Perry
U. S. Navy
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Yokosuka
Hag
C&h
Bologna
Mayrose
Wieners
The
PEAS
Maxwell House
Hilbef
Libby
del Monte
Hilsbury Beef
Pillsbury
Ballard
Snider
Banque
Levine
Ntaloupes
Strongheart Dog Food
15Th St
Ontstem Ay
Mt. Vernon, Illinois
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