Our Boys in the Armed Forces News From Home
Local families report multiple relatives serving abroad and in training camps across the country. Soldiers and sailors from Dalton Riverdale to Evans ton and Camp Wolters share letters detailing training, deployments, and homecomings, with notes on monsoon seasons and Christmas celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hestroms
Dalton
Virginia
Maynard Hestrom
Coast Artillery
Fort Storey
Earl Hestrom
Camp Peary
Adolph Nelin
Portsmouth
252Nd F. A. Bn
Camp McCoy
Wis
Johnnie
Dalton- Riverdale Woman’s Club
George Colwell
S.M-2/c
Allan D Blanke Promoted to Sergeant at Army Air Base
Allan D. Blanke is promoted to sergeant and stationed at the Army air base in Alamogordo New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan D. Blanke
Army Air Base
Alama Gordo
Mex
Local youths qualify for Army Air Forces Aviation Cadet training
Three young men from the community passed qualifying exams to enter Aviation Cadet training. George Badwash of 13841 Atlantic Street, 17, will begin training after his 18th birthday. Peter De Young of South Holland, Illinois, and Frederick John Diekman of South Holland also passed the board tests, written and physical, for a commission as second lieutenant. The tests were conducted by the Army Aviation Cadet Board in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces
Army Aviation Cadet Board
George Donald Badwash
George W. Badwash
Atlantic St
Thornton Township High School
Thornton Junor College
Young Badwash
Peter de Young
Tunis de Young
South Holland
Ill
Frederick John Diekman
Ida Diekman
Frederick
Franklin C. Dickman
U. S. Armed Forces
de Young
Diekman
West van Burenst
Chicago
Army Air Forces Training Path For Pilots and Bombardiers
The text notes age limits 17 to 26 and that qualified men complete about 138 months of intensive training to earn silver wings as pilots navigators or bombardiers in the Army Air Forces, following formal schooling and mental exams.
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Army Air Forces
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Thomas F. Kinney
Kinney-Hood Printing CO Publishers
Riverdale
Dolton
Congress
Dalton Cook County
Thlinois
Daniel Diette
A/s
Zelda Diette
Navy
Great Lakes
Alfred Diette
Camp Wolters
Texas
James S. Stamm, Jr
Mgr
James Stamm
Northwestern University
Evanston
Orville E. J. Stamm
Atlantic
Leroy Grandmaison
Casablanca
New York
Pvt
Mason Ehlers
Marine Air Division
Norman
Oklo
Ordnance School
Lloyd J. Brandt
Y-1/e
Southwest Pacific
47Th
Nips
South Sea Islands
Shangri-la
Lloyd
Emmett Squires
Emmett
73Rd Construction Battalion
Solomon Jessen
Fort Benning
252Nd Field Artillery
August Middleborn
August‘Mohr
Henry Mohr
C.M.2
U.S.C.G
Groton
Conn
Colwell
Armored School
Fort Knox
Peter E. Biesboer
Larry” A. Petkus
Camp Gordon
Third Cavalry
Yevt
Wilbur Volkmar
Camp Edwards
Mass
Cape
Earl Krueger
Camp Shelby
Miss
Pvt. Krueger
Infantry
Znterest
First Trust and Savings Bank OF Riverdale
First National Bank OF
Anthony Basile Plumbing
Chicago Street
August C. Reich
Interocean
Indiana Avenue
Ier
Riverdale Inn
BAT, & Son
Carl Dieck
Coal and
Park Avenue
Acme Coal CO
Illinois
Commodore
Acme
Malloy Coal Co
Lincoln Ave
Aerea
Central Garage
Pohlers & Stahnkee
Props
Washington Ave
The
J.F. Chandler Roofing Co
Chicago St
Delton
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