Marines Begin Annual Land Exercises From Quantico to Antietam Battlegrounds
More than three thousand marines of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces under Brigadier General Williams will depart Quantico on August 2 for their fourth annual land maneuvers. The training will culminate in simulated battles on Antietam battlefield near Sharpsburg Maryland, with a reinforced brigade fighting under wartime conditions using modern weapons and support units. The trek will pass Washington Gaithersburg Ridgeville Frederick and Sharpsburg with ten days of marching followed by camp and exercises to test readiness for a moment's notice campaign and seizure of naval bases.
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Washington
D. C
Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces
Generixion Willams
Quantico
Corps
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Maryland
Gaithersburg
Ridgeville
Frederick
Colonel Buck Urges Large Army at Lions Club
Col Beaumont Buck told Lions Club members on The Old Army and the New that the nation needs a strong army under the 1920 defense act. He traced U S military origins from colonial volunteers through wars, noting past unpreparedness but eventual victory, and praised civilian trained forces and summer camps. Matty Maverick was luncheon chairman.
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Lions’ Club
Beaumont B. Buck
United States Army
Mexico
America
Wig
Buck
Matty Maverick
Lieutenant Haddon Flies to San Diego in DH 4B
Lieutenant Julian B. Haddon, officer in charge of flying at Brooks Field, departs Saturday morning for San Diego, California in a DH 4B trainer. He will be gone about ten days as part of cross country flight training. Students from the graduating class in the Primary Flying School are visiting Cuero Seguin College Station and other towns in a transition course from the Tethy training plane to DH 4P. Vouzkis and TV-5s are also used while some students have completed the course and await assignment to Kelly Field.
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Haddon
San Diego
Julian. B. Haddon
Brooks Field
San ‘Diego
Cal
Vouzkis
Kelly Field
Fortification Plans for Naval Base Raised at Islands
Cutysburg and New Mack report a winter effort to fortify and defend a naval base on inter lines with the fleet at the Islands of Culebra in the Caribbean Sea.
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Cutysburg
New Mack
Culebra
Carribean Sea
Student Soldiers Win Camp Honors at Parade
Brigadier General Preston Brown commends top progress during week three of camp. Awards go to numerous C. M. and infantry companies including Denson Bethel, Charles D. Wood, Roy Cornwell, Howard Hitt, Harley Robinson, Harry Schultz, Slavi Arsak, Claude Fuqua, George Cushman, Roy Daffi, Albert Avant, Floyd Ballard, Bernold Beechem, Merl Horn, John O Dell, Herbert Hodgetts, John Branchard, Henry Ireland, John Maverick, and others from Twenty-third Infantry and associated units at San Antonio and Fort Sam Houston.
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Preston Brown
Twenty-third Infantry
Denson Bethel
Menard
Charles D. Wood
Alpine
tRoy W. Cornwell
Palestine
Infan
Lewis L. Willinamy
Pasadena
Stonewall J. Jett
Floyd
Ballard
Tusco- Jac
Bernold O. Beechem
San Antonio
Company X
Twentythird
Merl E H. Horn
Sugarland
Robert B. Stroud
Bay City
Carl G. Treadgill
Taylor
Company FX
Ninth Infantry
Herbert T. Hodgetts
Houston
Tloyd J. O'Dell
Galveston
Carlos T. Garza
Geone P.dubose
John F. Quevean
Oliver.b. Crandall
Fifteenth Field Artillery
Williams, Armstron- Teonard
John FL. Branchard
Charles Crocker
Aesoa
Fifth Cavalry
Henry C. Ireland
Cameron
John ¥ Maverick
Clem Metianer
Chireno
E Company
Douglas A. Bucholk
la Porte
Walter G. Chalmers
Ellis F. Vaughan
Fort Sam Houston
Smoke from forest fires blinds pilot cross country flight
First Lieut Elmer D Perrin and Sergeant Susemielil reported smoke from hundreds of fires between San Francisco and Seattle creating dense haze up to 1500 feet. A single large fire was seen, but the plane suffered rear fuselage damage after a rocky landing at White Rock Utah. They continued after repairs.
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San Francisco
Seattle
Elmer D. Perrin
Brooks’ Field
Perrin
Sergt
Mle Susemielil
White Rock
Utah
Brooks Field
San Diego
Salt Lake City
Denver
Susemich
Kelly Field Band to Perform Sunday Afternoon Concert
The Air Service Band of Kelly Field will give a 2 p.m. Sunday concert. The program includes March The Royal Legion Mazeppa waltz Danube Waltzes Sprite Revelry The Pink Lady fox trot Oh Baby and The Star Spangled Banner. The program will be directed by Bandleader Oscar Biermann.
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Air Service
Kelly Field
Royal Legion
Mazeppa
Fox
Oscar Biermann
Army Will Attack Fort Red C M T C
A boisterous Co M and C regiment from Camp Bullis was moved to Fort Sam Houston after a range firing session that officers called a success. On Tuesday morning a Red force of two battalions will attack Fort Sam Houston from the northeast with Lt Col Fred Turner directing defense. Camp Bullis parade awards Canopus Banner to Battery FX Fifteenth Field Artillery and Winerich Banner to Company OX Twenty-third Infantry for progress.
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Camp Bullis
Fort Sam Houston
G. M. PT
Fred’ H. Turner
Canopus
Battery FX
Fifteenth Field Artillery
Winerich
Company OX
Twenty-third Infantry
Ellington planes found serviceable after tests
Results from air plane equipment tests at Ellington Field by officers of the Third Attack Group at Kelly Field show serviceable planes. The tests finished Friday morning and the planes returned to Kelly Field. Lieutenants L A Smith and G M Robinson observed filming at Bassett Blakely ranch for North of Thirty Six, with Holt and Lois Wilson starring. Cattle used in scenes.
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Ellington Field
Kelly “Field
Kelly Field
L.A. Smith
G. McK
Robinson
Bassett-Blakely Ranch
Whirty-six
Whirty-six.” .Ack” Holt and Lois Wilson
France Can Pay Debt Say Attorney at Law Aubrey
Mr H M Aubrey argues France can pay its debt to the United States and should do so. He notes French prosperity, widespread small manufacturing, tourism by Americans, and import reliance shaping tax effects and trade with the United States. He cites Frances export growth and immigrant policy as factors in the economic picture.
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United States
France
Harry
Paris
Europe
Lyons
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