Roanoke Rapids Native Delivers Hot Meals to Fifth Army Front
Cor poral James Abernathy of Roanoke Rapids drives a 1 1/2 ton truck for the Fifth Army 3rd Division on the Anzio front. He ferries hot meals and ammo to entrenched troops each night, surviving shrapnel and sniping while moving along Italian front lines.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Anzio
James Abernathy
Henry Street
Roanoke Rapids
Abernathy
Abbernathy
Fedala
Morocco
Palermo
Salerno
San Vittore
Anzio Nettuno
Volturno River
Littleton Highway
Guy Moss
Lincoln Heights
Navy seeks 17 year olds for varied enlistment paths
The Elizabeth City Navy Recruiting Station chief urges 17 year olds to enlist, offering 57 specialty schools and rapid advancement. Openings remain in the Naval Reserve and Medical Corps. indoctrination lasts 21 days at Jacksonville, with immediate medical training possibilities. Local enlistees from Hertford Enfield Aulander Pleasant Hill will report to Jacksonville Naval Air Station after enlistment.
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Navy
J. W. Brown
Elizabeth City
Brown
Navalr Corps
Jacksonville
Florida
Air Corps
Hospital Corps
Roanoke Rapids
Enfield
Ahoskie
United States Navy
Eric Brooks Roberts
Hertford
Dougal Angus McPhail, Jr
Bernice Embury Lewis
Walton Henry Bobbitt
Edward Ray Rose
William. Barnes
Aulander
Otis Malton Lynch
Lewiston
James Marvin Deloatch
Pleasant Hir
Thomas Rudolph White
Pleasant Hill
Naval Aircorps
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
Fla
Juveniles On the Loose in Wartime America
Genevieve Parkhurst presents a sequence on juvenile delinquency in wartime America. The first article appears in The American Weekly Favorite Magazine with the Baltimore Sunday American on April 1. Readers are urged to obtain the issue from their newsdealer.
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Genevieve Parkhurst
Ellington Finishes Army Nurse Basic Training
Lt. Faye C. Billington of Thiells New York graduates from the Basic Training Center for Army Nurses at Camp Rucker Alabama after completing a four week course. The program supplemented her civilian nursing with Army hospital methods and field care. She enrolled in the Army Nurse Corps on March 1 1944.
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Faye C. Billington
ANC
Lillie Mitchell
Thiells
New York
Army Service Force
Camp Rucker
Alabama
Ellington
Army
Army Hospital
Roanoke Rapids School
Greensboro Family Visits Relatives All Weekend
Mr and Mrs Curtis Sledge and daughter of Greensboro spent the weekend with relatives here. John E Moore a U S N Charleston S C visited his mother Mrs Frank Moore last week.
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Mrs. Curtis Sledge
Greensboro
John E. Moore
Charleston
S. C
Frank Moore
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Cpl. Abernathy
Baltimore
America
Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Association
England
Cpl
Elbert R. B. Edwards
Fort Custer
Mich
Camp McCoy
Wis
Tennessee
Lt. Ellington
Rochelle Realty CO
Sions
P. O. Box
Dicken’s Park
Easy Terms
Kidd
N. J
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