Engineer Menninga's Outfit Commended For Meritorious Service
Pvt Sam D Menninga 413 Peace Street Pella and Sgt Glen M Ver Steeg of Knoxville serve in Italy with the 109th Engineer Combat Battalion part of the 34th Red Bull Division. The unit earned four meritorious citations for feats including a 35 mile road in 72 hours in Tunisia and supply routes before Cassino and Anzio, with mine clearance and assault support through 1943 44 and losses of 76 KIA and 280 total.
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Sam D. Menninga
Peace Street
Pella
Glen M. Ver
Knoxville
Italy
Chronicle
109Th Engineer
Mark W. Clark
109Th
Red Bull
Fl-Ala
Sebiba
Tunisia
34Th Division
Anz
Sith
Toth
Banavia
Outfit
Sam Menninga
Glen Ver Steeg
Rugged
Cadet Wayne Koder Completes Primary Flight Training
Public Relations release from Darr Aero Tech Micany Georgia states aviation Cadet F Wayne Koder son of Mrs Fred Koder formerly of Pella now 26 W 112th Place Chicago has completed training and is sent to Army Air Forces Basic Training School for Pilots at Cochran Field Macon Georgia After basic training he will join an advanced school of the Eastern Flying Command for Pursuit and Bombardment courses per Cochran Field release Wayne friends in Pella know him.
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Darr Aero Tech
Cochran Field
Wayne
Pella
Arthur B Van Zee Seeking Letters From Pacific Post
Arthur B Van Zee writes from a Pacific base describing light clothing mild days and comfortable nights while supervising about 25 officers and logistics at a hangar He requests friends send letters and news but censor rules forbid printing his address The Chronicle should print it via his parents and a Christmas letter shower is hoped for by his family and friends.
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Arthur B. van On
Arthur Se
Chronicle
S Sons
Thor
Jacob S Van Dusseldorp Promoted to Sergeant in Battle Area
Public relations release dated in the field censor record states Private Jacob S. Van Dusseldorp of Route 5, Pella, was promoted to Sergeant for outstanding achievement while serving. The release notes no faults and cites Lieutenant General As famed seventh as context.
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Jacob S. van Dusseldorp
Route Five
Pella
Vanorp
Asfamed
Unique holiday greeting from Seabee Warren Van Sittert
The Chronicle and many friends in Erland receive a distinctive holiday card from SeaBee Warren G. Van Sittert. The card shows Warren at work in front of a metal hut with an arched roof like Teeland and Alaska designs, sporting a new mustache. His father notes he is doing photographic work for buddies in England, reflecting his businessman side.
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Chronicle
SeaBee
Warren G. van Sittert
Erland
Warren
Ise
Teeland
Alaska
Van
Fathays
England
Pella
SeaBee van Sittert
Sister of Dr Chalfont in France with Red Cross
An American soldier mails news from France about Marian Pourchot, Madame Pourchot of Belfort, wife of French industrialist and army officer, serving with the American Red Cross through which soldiers pass. She and Captain Pourchet, once a trench warfare teacher at Camp Dodge, share wartime paths in Europe.
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Georgia Chalfont
Oskaloosa
Marian
Mme
Henry Pourchot
Belfort
France
Madame Pourchot
Red Cross
Army Offier
Camp Dodge
Captain Pourchot
Pourchet
Ray Tyseling Seeks Eddie Dupree Address in Italy
A V Mail from Ray Tyseling from Italy asks for Eddie Dupree’s latest address after learning from The Chronicle that Ed Dupree was with an evacuation hospital in Italy. Ray lists acquaintances from Pella and requests continued Chronicle delivery to Florence.
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Ray Tysseling
Pella Boys
Italy
Dupree
du Pree
Eddie
Florence
Joy Ten Magen
Glen Koopman
Glen Ver Steeg
Sam Menninga
Pol- Iu
Ray
Vander Wilt Awarded Air Medal At English Base
Second Lieutenant Lester E Vander Wilt 23 of Pella Iowa bombardier on a B 17 Flying Fortress has been decorated with the Air Medal for meritorious achievement during bombing attacks on Nazi war industries and military targets in support of Allied ground forces. He attended Central College before entering the RAF in July 1942. Navy plane searching for survivors of torpedoed vessels carries Red Cross emergency rescue kits to be dropped when survivors are located.
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Eighth Air Force
England
Lester E. Vander Wilt
Pella
Iowa
Eighth Air Force Base
Dena Val der Wilt
Lincoln Street
Central College
RAF
Navy
Plance
Red Cross
Rolscreenings News From Pella Residents In War Service
News from the Rol screen and Pella highlights local families with service members Mark, Chuck, and Bob in military custody statuses. Social events include Rags the dog birthday, jokes at the factory, candy shipments, and Christmas card drive. Oklahoma orders boost window unit demand. a forthcoming Christmas party is planned with high anticipation.
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Pella
Thomas
Mark
de Wild
Chuck
Bob Menning
Neal
Katherine
Rags
Gus Hame
Gus
Albert Gosselink
Atlantic City
Sone
Rosscreen
Oklahoma
Soldier Names and Addresses in Military Training Units
List of soldiers with ranks service numbers and transfer points includes Pte Donald J Toom at Fort Benning Co B 10th Battalion third PTR Shawnee Navy Air Station names Wayne Roder Cochran Field Macon and others at Camp Wolters Kirtland Field Albuquerque Chicago and Camp Lee Virginia with unit designations and routing details.
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Donald J. Toom
PTR
TRS
Fort Benning, Georgia
Who shall sit at the table when peace is made
A fragment from Edgar A. Guest reprinted in the Kans City Star features a poem about peace. It envisions unseen dead at the peace table, including innocent seain victims and a crucified boy, speaking for the living and demanding accountability of tyrants despite not being seen or heard.
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Ryn Vander Moce
Edgar A. Guest
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G I Home Front poem mocks wartime home life
A reader reprints a gubernatorial style G I Home Front piece critiquing civilian wartime controls. The poem contrasts bureaucratic limits with everyday life shortages, prices, and annoyances, urging readers to rethink the home front. Side note mentions a Red Cross blood donor story in Kansas City Missouri.
Reformed Church Plans National Youth Confab
New York reviews for a national youth fellowship of the Reformed Church in America presented by Rev. James Z Nottinga, Secretary for Youth. Endorsed at the annual Board of Education meeting to expand participation beyond local camps and meetings.
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New York
Reformed Church In America
James Z Nottinga
Board of Eduation
Reformed Church
Sanford E. Cobb
Hope College Studer Gives $1,000 for India Hospital
In Holland Michigan Hope College students during a YM and YWCA mission drive pledged one thousand dollars for an intra-mural telephone system at the Medical College Hospital in Vellore India. Dr Ka Tysse McGilvray and Rev Ralph Korteling presented the need and Margaret Prince plugged in the total as pledges grew to eight hundred dollars. The effort reflects twenty years of Hope student missionary support at home and abroad.
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Holland
Mich
YWCA
Hope College
Medical College Hospital
Vellore
India
Ka Tysse McGilvray
Ralph Korteling
Geal
Margaret Prince
Hope
Fire chief leads rescue then returns to class
Des Moines townsfolk watched as first aid instructor Fire Chief J. M. Offerdinger sprang from a bed at a Red Cross nursing class demonstration when the fire bell rang. He dashed to the blaze, performed his duties, and then resumed the sponge bath technique lesson.
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Des Moines
J. M. Offerdinger
Parking meters expand to 449 US cities new total
About 200000 parking meters are now operating across 449 cities in the United States as reported by the National Safety Council.
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United States
National Safety Council
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