The Gentler Marines Enter U S Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
February 13 marks the second anniversary of the gentler Marines as Lt Gen Vandergraff notes the women's reserve has grown to about one third to one half of past troop strength at major posts. Women in the corps fill 87 percent of the enlisted complement at key headquarters.
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United States
Marine Corps
Corps
Alexander A. Vandergatf
Taddy van Pamber
Representative Marine
Repatriated nurse returns home after war service
Reba O Whittle, 24, formerly an evacuation flight nurse, ended 14 months in the European theater and a POW in Stalag 9. She was the first American nurse shot down, later repatriated via Switzerland with two fellow servicemen. She earned the Purple Heart and European theater ribbons.
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Edward F. Whittle
Rock Sprites
Liere
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Aachen
Whittle
Stalag 9
Switzerland
Alfred H. Walker
Brarkeltville
John R. Chapman
Richardson
NEW Paap Bis
Ted A. Weil
Pi 8
Col 3 Hospital
Whittle’s Flight Nurse Story From Training to War Service
Lieutenant Whittle, a Rock Springs High School and North Texas State alumna, trained as a Dipht nurse at Medical and Surgical hospital in San Antonio. She earned her wings at Bowman Field in 1943 and served overseas with a medical evacuation unit based in England before returning to Walter Reed and San Antonio. She refused to detail her overseas experiences but spoke of longing for home and rest after release from hospital.
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Brecke-Gentra Hospital
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England
San Antonio
Walter Reed General Hospital
Washington, DC
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United States
Fall From Motor Bike Injures Jimmy Hicks
Jimmy Hicks twenty two resident of 1816 Monterey Street was treated for cuts and bruises after a motorcycle fall in the 1600 block of Monterey Street Tuesday. He received emergency care at Robert B. Hospital.
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Monterey Street
Emer- Benny
Robert B. 1 Hospital
Flight Nurses Graduate at Randolph Field Post Chapel
Ten officers of the Army Nurse Corps and 25 chief nurses completed field nursing training at the RAF Behavior Medicine facility at Randolph Field. Graduation exercises featured Col. Ernest F. Harrison delivering the address, with Maj. Mary Leontine reciting the flight nurses creed. Diplomas were conferred by Col. John B. McGraw as Chaplain O. Hitt gave the invocation and benediction. The nine week course included three weeks of evacuation flights within the interior zone. chief nurses’ course ran four weeks.
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Zone of
Bacring Down On the News
Arthur Baek reports from a wartime rumor chain. A Swiss traveler fleeing Germany relays local chatter about Hitler delivering a sepia room speech at the Braun Haus and the war being blamed on a lunar man. A bizarre claim about Hitler shaving with a vacuum cleaner is noted.
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Tle Braun Haus
S A Command Sets Up New Safety Record
In January the San Antonio Mr Technical service command posted its lowest accident rate with 102 disabling injuries per 1 million man hours, per safety engineer C B E McKin Ney. The command includes five depots and three fields Kelly Stinson and Hensley. The Kelly field rate for January 1 was 1.18, a field record. Military disabling incidents dropped to a new low with BAG over 100 008 man days, compared with 667 in December.
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Hensley
Post Chaplain To Be Speaker At World Day of Prayer
Chaplain Clark O. Hitt of Randolph Field will speak on army chaplains and Christian missions during World Day of Prayer at First Presbyterian Church. He served 11 months overseas in England and North Africa with an American photo group and participated in invasions near Oran and in Tunisia. His son Clark O. Hitt Jr recently arrived in Italy for infantry service. another son serves with the Marine in the South Pacific and a son-in-law with Army Air Forces in France.
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Randolph Field
England
North Africa
Army
First Presbyterian Church
Oran
Tunisia
North African
Clark O. Hitt Jr
Italy
Merelyant Marine
South Pacific
Nemy
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Randolph Dime Drive Doubles March of Dimes Gift in 1945
Randolph field's 1945 contribution to the March of Dimes reached 2142, an increase of 190 percent from 1057 in 1944. Theater relics: New York theaters show 19th century revival interiors lavishly gilded and plush.
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Randolph Dime Drive
Randolph Field
New York
FIC Absolves Cigaret Trade Amid Shortage Report
The Federal Trade Commission absolves the tobacco industry of illegal complicity in the cigarette shortage and urges fair distribution. It finds civilian shortages stem mainly from military and lend-lease demand, tax-free sales to armed forces rising sharply from 1931 to 1944, with tax-paid sales showing varied figures.
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Washington
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