Our Boys in the Armed Forces Reach Riverdale React
Local community notes two new two star homes in Riverdale as several Riverdale residents join the armed forces. Cards from service members describe training, transfers, and furloughs at Fort Sheridan Camp Robinson Fort Benning and Camp Livingston. Letters reveal promotions, shipboard radio work in the Southwest Pacific and plans to remain in the United States for now.
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Community Patriotic Council of
Dalton and
Riverdale
August Markus, Jr
Robert
Camp Robinson
Ark
Fort Sheridan
Pvt
Harold N. Markus
Marine Aircraft
South Pacific
Robert S. Jennings
George H. Jennings
Fort Benning
A.S.T.P
Camp Livingston
George J. Jennings
Dalhart
Texas
Army Air Corps
Paul R. Pierce
Dalton
Gordon
Southwest Pacific
Letter from Pfe Henry Reisbich Discusses Move to San Francisco
The letter describes Cpl. Arthur Mullen and associates, including a move from Vallejo to San Francisco, life near the water front, and anti-aircraft service. Reisbich mentions weather, city life on Market Street, and thanks supporters for sending the Pointer. Another note follows about Cpl. Mullen being reassigned from Larado to Westover Field and then Charleston, meeting a former buddy in Brooklyn during Easter.
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Pointer
Pfe
Henry Reisbich
Vallejo
San Francisco
Frisco
Market Street
Navy
Chicago
Del-Dale
Cpl
Arthur Mullen
Larado
Texas
Westover Field
Mass
Army Air Field
Charleston
S. C
Joseph Inella
Scott Field
Ill
Lowry Field
Denver
Colo
Joseph
Brooklyn
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Sam Scaglione
Frank
Roseland
Jefferson Barracks
John Albert Reitz
Conrad Reitz
Army
Camp Wallace
Eac
Theodore L. Rose
William A. Rose
Columbus
Miss
Atlanta
Alex Goeringer
Chatham Field
Roy Edward Meurisse
Toledo
Ohio
Ralph Lenover
Camp Roberts
Calif
Camp Bowie
Robert Crane
Oscala
Fla
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Camp Crowder
Signal Corps
Walt’ H. Ortel
Laredo
San Marcos
Kenneth F. Maxwell
Hawaiian Islands
New Caledonia
Roy Layidsen
Roy
Great Lakes
Navy Pier
Emmett Brandt
Camp le Jeune
N. C
Lloyd R. Jenness
Kearns
Utah
William Dorman
Wood
Raymond
England
Edward J. Bitter
Santa Maria
George Engelman
John Briney
E.M.1
New London
Glenn Wilkinson
General Hospital
Joe
Robert E. Axtell
Axtell
Safeway
Safeway Lines, Inc
Dolton
IIL
Illinois Bell Telephone Company