Naugatuck Soldier In India Pens Long Memoir Letter
A Union City soldier now with the LA Army in India is identified as author of a recently published long letter or memoir. The piece discusses experiences, changes, and observations from his service, including requests and reflections on publishing from abroad.
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Naugatuck
India
Sergeane
Clement d. Guleraunus
Union City
States
Xobtler
Nwuadéuel
Beth
Aus
Sereloo
Ula
Inelentes
Svoyrant Gelerunags
Naugatuck Soldier Keeps Planes Flying Under Fire
Dennis de McBeemate, a Ninth Air Force member in Normandy after D-Day, served with the Service Group of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force to supply and maintain planes. His team included ordnance experts, paratroopers, signalmen, and mobile repair crews who faced enemy fire to keep the aircraft operating.
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Ninth Air Force
Dennis de
President Grant Selects Vacation Amid Army Service
The article notes President Grant took time to choose his vacation while serving in the army. It mentions a dispute over leadership and includes commentary about finding a place in the wartime effort.
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Grant
Local Sailor On Warship Of President
William Jackman of the United States Navy served aboard a presidential warship during a trip to Hawaii with President Franklin D Roosevelt. The voyage carried the president and involved notable crew members and a close contact routine, with Jackman and family named among those connected to the historic voyage.
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William Jackman
U. S. Navy
Hawaii
United State Navy
Olive Sachan
Lewis Street
Shery Virmonth-ole
William, Jr
Franklin 2D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Haawaii
Chexter Nimitz
Dougas MacArthur
Fuentiin
Tinder Way
Creew
Tim
Repord
Whilu
Asea
United States
Naturalized Citizens Must Present Papers At Meeting
The article notes naturalized citizens must present papers to be sworn in at a Wednesday meeting of election officials and clerics, held from 4 to 8 p m in the courtroom. Town Clerk Raymond J. S J will be absent. assistant Janet Evan is expected to fill the vacancy. Previous meetings saw over 290 new voters registered, with 800 absentee ballots sent to residents in the armed forces.
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Eters
Raymond J
John
Janet Evan
St Francis Club Meeting Tonight Before Family Picnic
The outing committee of the St Francis club meets tonight in the church hall at 8. Chairman Ernest Alten asks all chairmen to attend and report. About 90 adult tickets are issued and roughly 400 children and adults are expected for Sunday's Lindon Park outing.
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St. Francia
Mexico Decree Orders Literacy Tutors for Adults
Mexico City reports President Camacho has signed a decree requiring every literate citizen aged 28 and above to teach at least one illiterate person to read and write Spanish. The measure targets expanding literacy nationwide as part of an education drive.
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Mexico City
Camacho
Mexico
Allied forces push new offensive toward channel coast
American troops on the south bank of the Seine river launch a new offensive aimed at remnants of the German army retreating from Normandy. The drive toward the Channel coast seeks to reopen the strategic passage as Allied forces press on after August advances.
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Supreme Headat Meters
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Aip
Idsy Leing
Chiunnel
Wuromby
Normandy
Odo
German LNB reports evacuees near Party Detroit area
German LNB dispatches from London say Nurt troops lifted the evacuation at a stainpes area 14 miles SSW of Party, Detroit. Also a Comply spokesman notes a strike by 68 Briggs Manufacturing Company drives has hampered 30,000 workers across seven plants as men walk out for a wage raise.
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London
LNB
Stainpes
Detroit
Uup
Briggs Manufacturing Company
War Production Board backs draft deferments for essential workers
Washington reports the War Production Board recommends draft deferments for about 400 under twenty essential steel workers. The action aims to sustain high level steel production during wartime.
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Washington
Woald
Lamont Nichols 69 Dies at Allerran Farms
Lamont Nichols aged 69 died this morning at Allerran Farms Bridgewater born but long time resident of the area. Survivors include wife Mabel three daughters Mrs Larry Gordon Mrs Olve Bambetto Miss Mildred Nicholey five sons Raymond Albert Wilfred Joek and Robert US Navy one sister Mrs Rachel White eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm Buck Interer funeral home Park Place Rev Richard Baxter of St Michael s Episcopal Church will officiate Burial in Grove Cemetery Calling hours tonight 7 to 9 and Wednesday 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
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Lamont
Nichols
Allerian Farms
Nausavuck
Bridgewater
Conn
Mabel
Larry Gordon
Olvé Bambetto
Hartford
Mildred Niche Oly
Naugatuck
Raymont
Albert
Nelligaatuck
Wilfred
Joek
Woodbury
Robert
U. S. ‘Navy
Rachel White
South Norwalk
Buckiniter Funeral Home
Park Place
Richard Baxter
St Michael’s Apiscapali Ehivoh
Grove Cemetery
Naugatuck Veteran at Framingham Hospital in Mass
Private Elwood R Harper US Army a veteran of Africa Sicily and the invasion of France is now a patient at Cushing General Hospital Framingham Massachusetts His wife Tiva and his parents have been informed He arrived from service hospitals in the south and was transferred north He participated in North Africa in 1942 and the Sicily invasion He was wounded in Tunisia and later in France He is listed as Ward 306 3 at Cushing General Hospital Hartford Aug 22 Connecticut eateries to display price lists for forty basic foods under OPA orders to aid public price checks
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Elwood Ff, Harper
Uniti Stttes
Worth Athen
Sicily
Italy
France
Cushing
North Africa
John Bell
Naugatuck
Shirlee Gel
Cherry Street
Neary
Bell
Pennsylvania
Harper
England
Tunisia
Praglngham Hospital
Elwood R. Harper
Cushing General Hospital
Framingham
Massachusetts
Hartford
Connecticut
OPA
Providence
R. I
Harvard
Army
Donald W
Dixie) Richards
Richards
Easton
Veteran of 50 Missions Returns Home in 1940s Style
Sergeant Francis Shilinskas of the United States Army Air Corps, a veteran of 50 bombing missions in the Mediterranean, arrived home on furlough with his parents in Melbourne. He earned the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters for meritorious action, flew Liberator bombers on long missions averaging about nine hours and up to 2,000 miles, with targets including near Vienna and the Ploesti oil fields. The missions were conducted under heavy flak and dangerous air defenses, and one Liberator was lost while another carried on to complete the remaining runs.
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Francis Shilinskas
United States Army Air Corps
Joseph Shilinskus
Melbourne Court
Werial
Shilinskuy
News Today
Italy
Exeh Mision
Shilinskas
Sergtennt Shilinskas
Augirin
An-Aircraft
Vienna
Ploesti
Romanian
Joan
L. S
Turkey Shoot Featured At Fish and Game Club Bake
The Naugatuck Fish and Game Club Bake will feature a turkey shoot with 20 fowl at Schildgen's Grove East Waterbury Road on Sept 3 starting 10 am. Walter Gesseck chairs the event with James Baker in charge of the shoot. Me Gesseck notes over 700 are expected, with guests from state fisheries and game offices and nearby towns attending.
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Naugatuck Fish Aid Gnome Club, Inc
Schildgen’s Grove
East Waterbury Road
Walter
A. Gesseck
James Baker
Gesseck
Amon
Russel P. Hunter
State Board of Fisheries and Game
Sith Monroe
Litchfield
Surroundiggr
Charles Thompson
Arthur Friend
Frank
Fred
Leslie Baker
James Thompson
Henry Gessenk
Peter White
Gordon Hatch
Thomas Saunders
Joseph Valinghes
Josep Sitar
Henry Schudgen
Connecticut Farmers Seek Federal Aid Over Hay Shortage
Storrs Conn Aug 22 UP Connecticut farmers request federal government aid to ease a severe hay shortage caused by a dry summer cutting the hay crop by about 25 percent statewide.
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Storrs
Conn
Connecticut
No School Board Meeting Delayed By Absent Members
The Waugaluck board of education will not hold a meeting this week as all members are out of town. The delay follows two postponements this month, with school opening in about two weeks. A new high school teacher appointment is expected, and the seven at the table include the superintendent who has no vote.
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Waugaluck
Nobsent
Lator
Sailor on 20 day shore leave from Pacific duty returns home
Aviation Ordnance Mate s Lawler of USN spends a 20 day leave with his mother at 45 Phoenix avenue after 16 months aboard a Navy carrier. He expects the Pacific war to end in about six months, before Europe concludes. He cites four engagements but cannot reveal action locations. He will resume sea duty after leave. a Naugatuck high graduate and former Seymour Mig employee, he enlisted in Oct 1942.
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Aviation Ordnance
Lawler
USN
Mary Lawlor
Phoenix Avenue
Lawlor
Pacific
Europe
Naugatuck High
Seymour Mig. Co
Navy
Scarlet Fever Reported As Town's Only Case
Doctor Walter T. Baker reports one scarlet fever case in Naugatuck as the sole reportable illness to the State Health Department. statewide, two scarlet fever cases were recorded last week, with similares in Hartford and another in Hartford county. Poliomyelitis totals rise to fifteen across towns and cities, with Hartford and New Haven counties contributing several cases.
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Walter T. Baker
Naugatuck
State Health Department
Hartford
Hartford County
New Haven
Local Residents Take Part In Scout Fire Festivities
Clifford Teepie Sr and Henry Pope Sr, noted Naugatuck locals, joined the Boy Scout Council fire event at Mount Tobe Scout camp Plymouth last Saturday. Henry Pope Jr of Troop 2 spoke at the camp fire, delivering two inspiring talks before about 259 attendees. During the weekly Board of Review for the Cornell Fire, Scout Charles Ashford of Fern Street earned a merit badge for cooking.
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Clifford Teepie
Henry Pope
Naugatuck
Boy Scout Council
Mount Tobe
Plymouth
Congregational Church
Air Force
Board of Review
Cornell
Charles Ashford
Fern Street
Norman Litke Shows Improvement at Hospital
The condition of 14 year old Norman Litke of 220 May Street was reported as good by authorities Marys hospital this afternoon. One Litke boy suffered internal injuries in a fall from a horse over a week ago requiring an operation. This was the first improvement since he entered the hospital. Dr. Seymour Zonn treated him.
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Norman Litke
May Street
Mary's Hospital
Litke
Seymour Zonn
Madame Chiang Kai-shek improves slowly in Rio de Janeiro
Physicians report slow steady improvement in Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese generalissimo, who has been treated in Rio since July 13. Doctors say her illness remains undisclosed and recovery will take several months.
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Rio de Janeiro
Chiang Nhai-Shek
Allied forces push rapid advance as Germans retreat in France
Allied troops in France report renewed gains as German offensive power collapses. Eisenhower’s forces widen gaps, trapping the enemy near Brittany and Paris. Patton’s armored units advance toward Le Havre and east of Paris while Marseille and Toulon face heavy pressure. Generals urge continued speed despite supply strains.
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France
Eisenhower
United Press
Henry T. Gorrell
Brittany
Paris
Toulon
George Moorad
C-B-S
Marseille
Briish
Marseile
Aix En Provence
Rhone
Riviera
Patch
Suys
Patton
le Barre
Marne River
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