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Page Eight7/7/2 M/eig/inoca(Confirmed rrcm Page One)i tiiTunderbolts. one of the fastest co ships in the air, after having ult; made an impressive record in cc H Slower planes. 4 liiThe commander of the elements ol of the 93rd Division, in action in T Bougainville. South Pacific. Brig, ai Gen. Leonard R. Boyd, has won si the undying devotion of his^men • for his qualities of leadership. Having ordered that 110 soldier is e to be left in the jungle dead or 5 alive, he personally, at great dan- 1 ger to himself, reconnoitered with \ a patrol to find five missing men. • f After an all night search, the 1 party was located. Three of the i men were dead and an officer ' and a non-commissioned officer 1 were standing vigil over their s bodies. i sHAPPENINGS AT HOME: That 5 Negroes are doing their part in * the armed services of the'ir country is made manifest bv the an-nouncement recently that more P Negroes than whites from the C( state of Mississippi are serving in d: those forces. Figures released by PCol. Lawrence W. Strong, state di- F rector of selective sendee showed ^ that 11.209 colored and 9.088! whites, between the ages through 25 years had been inducted. jThe British army ilt; training as regiment of soldiers on American soil for the first time since the' Revolutionary war. The unit, called the First Caribbean Regi- i ment. is a mixed unit of white and colored composition, of men recruited in the Caribbean and Bermuda. The officer second in command, a major, is a Negro, and the percentage of Negroes is about the same as of the territories from which the unit was' made up.Twenty-one Negro officers recently completed their work for dual ratings as navigator—bombardiers at the Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. Having earned their navigators wings at Hondo, Texas Air Field, the fliers M took up the 12 week bombardier-ing course to complete their training as bomber pilots.The WACs at Fort Brecken-ridge. Ky.. celebrated their second anniversary there last week. There are approximately 200 women stationed at the Fort.In order that more* and better coverage of news concerning Negro troops might be made, the director of the public relations bureau has announced that a colored writer has been added to the staff of ‘‘Stars and Stripes,“ overseas publication for soldiers.S'
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Apache Junction Apache Sentinel
Apache Junction, Arizona, US
Fri, Jun 23, 1944
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