Local Red Cross seeks knitters and playing cards
Roanoke Rapids Red Cross urges volunteers to knit 66 O D sweaters 50 helmets and 50 scarves or risk missing August quota. Call Ed Cross Production Room at Tenth and Henry for wool and instructions. Also asks for new or good condition playing cards to fill overseas gift boxes, deliver to Mrs P Beckwith 906 Monroe Street or drop at Red Cross rooms.
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Roanoke Rapids
American Red Cross
United States
Ed Cross
Tenth
Henry Streets
Red Cross
Town Notes: Local Residents‘ Weekend Visits and Greetings
Lawrenceville Virginia residents share greetings and visits across towns including Florida Norfolk Hopewell Gasburg Jackson Ports mouth and Newport News. Families mentioned include Pearson Hitchens Harris and Harlow with relatives and servicemen noted at Kinston Field and broader Virginia towns.
Marines Land in Saipan Amid Heavy Fighting
A frontline reporter describes U S Marines pushing inland on Saipan under heavy Japanese resistance. Naval gunfire and air support shake the shore as medics care for the wounded in a rain soaked frontline, amid the grim realities of battle and the stench of death.
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Tarawa
Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster Awarded to Barnes
Staff Sergeant Marvin E. Barnes of Pleasant Hill received the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster for meritorious achievement during frequent Eighth Air Force bombing missions against German war targets.
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Barnes
Marvin E. Barnes
Pleasant Hill
Eighth Aaf
Germany
Funeral Attendees Include Hudson Ingram Pearson Family
Attend funeral in Valentine Virginia for Thomas Pearson drew many relatives and friends from nearby towns including Mrs H M Hudson Mr and Mrs J M Ingram and family Miss Kathleen Overman Mrs Bernice Wright and Mrs Joe Wood all of this city plus Mr and Mrs Harry McClure of Newport News Virginia and Mr and Mrs Eurick Allbright and son of Portsmouth Virginia at Wesley's Chapel last Thursday.
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S. J. Harris
Lonnie Agnes
Battleboro
Kathleen Mayton
Essie Bryant
Walter Davenport
Norfolk
Wallace Harlow
Edsel
Hopewell
Sterling E. Harris
Arcola
Annabelle Hargrove
Jackson
Herrents
W. R. Hargrove
Evelyn Pearson
Gasburg
Robert Pearson
William Harlow
Jean Fay
Hope
Hux son lands safely in England with RAF service
In England Mr and Mrs L R Hux learn their son Master Sgt Gordon Hux has arrived safely back in England. Sgt Barnes 20 son of Mr and Mrs E L Barnes of Pleasant Hill is noted as a prior cloth inspector at Rosemary Manufacturing Roanoke Rapids before joining RAF January 23 1943. Mrs Clinton Deberry visiting Richmond VA this week. Mr and Mrs R H Duncan and family have returned from Dundee Ill to make their home here. Nazi occupied Europe is mentioned.
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England
L. R. Hux
Sgt
Gordon Hux
R. H. Duncan
Dundee
Ill
Clinton DeBerry
Richmond
Europe
Rosemary Manufacturing Company
Roanoke Rapids
Sgt. Barnes
E. L. Barnes
Pleasant Hill
Gulf
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. I. Pearson
Lawrenceville, Va
Ean Pearson
Bernice Hitchens
Alice Marie Hitchens
Viola Glover
Florida
Tech
Mason Brunson
Saipan, Marianas Islands
Navy
Coca-Cola Company
Weldon Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc
Coca-Cola
Coke
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