Franklin County World War II Hero Wins Distinguished Unit Citation
Sgt Kenneth Nissan 31 son of Norman Nissan Swan Lake received the blue and gold Distinguished Unit Citation ribbon. As assistant crew chief of a P-38 with the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, his group earned praise for shooting down 20 German aircraft over Steyr Austria on April 2 1944. Nissan attended Downey High School class of 29 and worked as a bookkeeper before enlisting March 21 1942. His brothers Cpls Frank and Ivan Nissan are also stationed in Italy.
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Kenneth Nissan
Norman Nissan
Swan Lake
Fifteenth Army Air Force
Italy
Steyr
Austria
Luftwaffe
Downey High School
Husler Elevator Co
Downey
Sheppard Field
Texas
Lockheed’s
Burbank
Cal
Cpls, Frank and
Ivan Nisson
Norman
Okla
Leonadius Frank Marsall
Franklin D. Marshall
RFC 2
Salt Lake City
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Oklahoma
Marshall
E. M. Shields
Oklahoma City
United States Navy
J C Penney Company
Preston
Idaho
Franklin county drives solid for National War Fund goal
Dozens of Franklin county volunteers contribute time to the National War Fund campaign. Citizens respond to this call because it aids sons daughters nationals and allies in the war stricken world through USO and other agencies. The county is noted for meeting quotas in patriotic drives.
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Franklin County
Citzens
USO
Preston and area air force and navy notices report
Veterans from Preston Idaho and nearby towns appear in Army Navy and WAC service updates. Staff Sergeant Vivian Jamison works at a woodworking sub depot in England while Pvt Alfred Walton recovers from a New Guinea bombing injury and Pvt Parley Walton heads overseas. Cadet Roy Olsen trains at Independence Army Air Field with other Idaho servicemen awaiting final phase choices.
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England
Europe
Vivian J. Jamison
Preston
Idaho
William H. Jamison
Preston High School
Lavon Henderson
Malad
Alfred V. Walton
Chester E. Walton
East Second South
Bushnell General Hospital
Brigham City
Utah
Walton
Hollandia
New Guinea
Camp Roberts
California
Pvt
Parley N. Walton
Independence
Kans
Roy Junius Olsen
C. L. Olsen
Weston
Independence Army Air Field
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Dana A. Talbot
Women’s Army Corps
First Wac Training Center
Army
Santa Maria
Calif
States
District of Columbia
Africa
Italy
India
New Caledonia
Hawaii
Australia
Labrador
France
Soil Conservation Camp Moves to Grace Idaho
The Soil Conservation Service Office has moved from the Sant Hotel Building to the Administration Building at the Grace Side Camp in Grace Idaho to speed conservation farming work. Grace is a unit from Downey with the Bancroft labor camp closed last week bringing men to Grace for harvest and future conservation projects under SCS supervision.
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Soil Conservation Service
Sant
Civilian Public Service
Grace
Idaho
F. M. Cooper
Portneuf Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors
Grace Side
Downey
Black and White Fair Association
Anderson Lumber Company
Bancroft
Cooper
Farm labor program praised for harvest value
E F Ziegler says farm labor boys have been a valuable asset to the community during the harvest season and would do more valuable work in the program. Farmers interested in the ordinance stop at the office for instruction and discussion.
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E. F. Ziegler
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WAR Fund
National War Fund
Hart Music
O.k.rubber
O. K. Tire Shop
Weston J. Smith
Quentin R Casperson
J W. Casperson
No. 1St West
United States
Assiatic_Pacific Theater of Operations
Army Infantry Corps
Darwin Lea Feller
Naval Training School (Electrical
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
PE Encoote
Bald Junior Weaver
Bald G. Weaver
North 2Nd East
Naval Reserve
Boise
Farragut
Stanley
F. Atkinson
Andr
Fred Atkinson
Franklin
Santa Ana
Navy
U S. Naval Training Center
Keith Chaney Dockstader
Henrietta Mae Dockstader
Grant Blaine Dockstader
Adam Grant Dockstader
Mink Creek
Rigation
First Security Bank OF Idaho National Association
BANKS
Federal Reserve
F.d.lo
Joe
G. I. Joes
C. A. Bottolfsen
U. 8
Robert L
Brainard
Congress
T Henry Dworshak
N. P. Nielson
State Auditor
Robert Airshie
Gee Este Ves W. He Detwa
R Sohn Sanborn
Pata Treyste Keating
Stor
Biate Bee Op Mae
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