News of Our Men and Waves Across the Pacific
Ten day leave for Bob Nichols in the South Pacific. Army enlistment opens for three years at Fort Douglas. Cpl. Robert Crim in Adak makes a long distance call home. Maj. Earl Ozborne to recruit in Akron. John Kirk found in Jap prison camp from Wake Island. Genevieve Norris to return from the Waves. Fred Warren returns to Eads Service Station. Lt. David Waterman promoted after war, now at Ellington Field. Pfc. John C. Carman teaching in Germany. Vern Knight near home after 27 months at sea. Mrs. Belle Billings hears from grandson Robert in the Aleutians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Earl Ozborne
Italy
States
Lincoln
Nebd
Akron
Ohio
Barbara Osborne
Army Air Forces
John Kirk
Orin Kirk
Sitkum
War Department
Kirk
Wake Island
Pacific Island
Genevieve Norris
Dearborn
Michigan
Cecil Hartley
Myrtle Point
Paul McNair
Coquille
Norris
Portland
Fred Warren
Naval Service
Pacific
Eads
Mra Warren
San Francisco
David Waterman
Ellington Field
Texas
James Jewett
Waterman
Europe
Vern Knight
Knight
H P. and K Timber Company
Bronze Star Awarded Posthumously to Marvin Barkley
War Department announces that Bronze Star Medal is posthumously awarded to Corporal Marvin L Barkley of Broad Bend for heroic actions in Germany on 20 November 1944. The Ninth Service Command at Fort Douglas Utah will arrange the presentation. Mr Barkley is offered condolences on his loss.
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Tony Barkley
Broadbent
Cpl
Marvin J. Barkley
Germany
War Department
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, DC
Barkley
Marvin L. Barkley
United States
Ninth Service Command
Fort Douglas
Utah
Derethy and Endredt Daughter to Marry in Argentina
Derethy born here and Alisa Endicott, a former University of the Philippines teacher, plan a marriage to George Kallman of Buenos Aires. They met in Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila where both stayed three years. Kallman, formerly with RKO Radio Pictures, was overseas as foreign representative and was caught when war broke out.
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I . Derethy
Ive Re
Mise Endredt
South America
George Kallman
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Santo Tomas
Mania
P. I
Mr. Allman
Manila
R. K. O.radio Pictures
Alisa Endicott
University of the Philippines At
Letters From Okinawa Base Describe Typhoon Survival
Mr and Mrs R Johnson receive Earl’s Sept 6 letter from Naha Okinawa recounting a three day typhoon during a Manila to Okinawa convoy. He describes losing part of the group, an engine room collapse from gas fumes, and battle with waves as high as mountains while the vessel endured.
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Okinawa
Letter from Navy family on wartime fate of missing son
A Gaylord couple receives a solemn Navy letter informing them their son John Kitts Grant is missing in action since July 6, 1948, aboard the USS Helena after torpedoing in the Kula Gulf. The letter offers condolences and notes the likelihood he lost his life in the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Grant
Gaylord
Grant
John Kitts Grant
Beaman
USS
Naval Reserve
Navy
John Grant Death Confirmed By Government
Government announces the death of John Grant confirmed by the War Department with official findings released to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Grant
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Bob Nichols
Mra
W J Crim
Robert Crim
Adak
Aleutian Islands
Alaskan
Crim
John C. Carman
Gay“lord
Hail
Carman
Cologne
Peterborn
Berlin
Belle Billings
Robert Billings
Aleutians
Merchant Marines
Marvin Barkley
Myrtle Point Riding Club
Oaks Pavilion
Mae
Perkins Drug
Rexall
Nahe
Japan
Ameonacrohip
Karl
P. G
Yours
The
Pittsburgh
Henry Schroeder & Sons
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