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Our Boys in the Armed Forces report from home town
Local residents share letters from soldiers overseas and service members stationed in California and Texas. Pvt Clarence Shilling JOINS his buddy Bill Steinhauer in Italy, Pfc Margery Tiedemann writes from El Toro about training and potential Camp Elliott move, visits to Hollywood studios, and keeping up with The Pointer. Other notes mention S/Sgt Joseph J. Schaefer transferred to New York, his wife Margie Michalski, and brother Bernard Schaefer at Fort Knox.
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Pvt
Clarence Shilling
Margery D. Tiedemann
Marine Corps
el Toro
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Ari
Pre- Tiedemann
Harry Tiedemann
Camp Beale
Calif
Joseph J. Schaefer
Fort Jackson
Robert Bodtke
Pampa
Pampa Army Air Field
Joachim J. Panozzo
Robert
Rein
South Pacific
States