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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1945
Page
8
A letter criticizes policies labeling men as 4-F in the draft amid debate over national service and work or fight laws. The author argues many 4-Fs are unfairly stigmatized and urges fair treatment for older and younger men alike, noting misapplied accountability and potential injustice in classifying civilians.
Army Nurse Corps members assigned to hospital trains troop ships overseas duty and flight nurse training will wear slacks in regular issue. Gen Porter of the Army Service Forces depot at Ban Antonio announces Olive drop slacks are the new item for summer and winter wear.
Lieut. Col. Edward Preston Dimmick, seven year Army veteran and troop carrier pilot, died in a transport plane crash near Horn Lake Mississippi. Survived by wife Mrs Arlene Dimmick and daughter Ann, and by his parents Mr and Mrs H A Dimmick of San Antonio, a brother and a sister in Houston. He had trained at Randolph and Kelly in 1938 and was born and raised in San Antonio.
War department list notes Major Willam K Hinsch 32 killed in action December 21 in Belgium. Widow Marvel Hinsch and 1 month old daughter Mary Ann live at 615 Eleanor Ave. Hinsch a University of Texas graduate joined infantry at Fort Sam Houston in 1940 and earned the Purple Heart after October 8 injury in Germany. He returned to duty on November 1.
Sgt. William Roberts, 19, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three clusters for Eighth Air Force service in England. He travels to California for overseas reassignment after visiting his grandmother in Oklahoma. Stockdale native Maj. Water A. Smith, a Ninth Air Force Marauder pilot, has flown 45 combat missions and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Presidential Unit Citation.
Colonel T. McCormick assumes command of the Fourth Air Force fighter base in Nays Calif after serving as a Leyte invasion fighter wing commander. A veteran of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands campaigns, he landed with the 24th Division at Red Beach and swam ashore when boats were sunk. He helped plan airstrip sites before combat, later returning to the Southwest Pacific in 1944 for a second tour and previously serving from Oakland headquarters.
Col. G. H. Childre announced changes at Brooksfield naming Col. Martin P. Hunter as acting post surgeon during Lieut. Col. Robert Wy Lowrey's absence. Both Col. Hunter and Col. Steinmann transferred from Garden City Kansas Army post to Brooksfield.
The report notes Southwest Texas State Teachers College graduate and family details for several servicemen. First Lt. Kenneth E. Skarien, wife Anna Cox Skarien, and child Mel live in New Braunfels, praised for Air Medal as navigator with the 15th Air Force in Italy. Second Lt. Robert L. Varney, of McCullough Avenue, receives Air Medal for European combat missions as bombardier with the 15th Air Force Liberator. Capt. Stanley A. Friesen, son of Arthur and Mrs. Friesen, receives the first oak leaf cluster to the Air Medal for participation in the invasion of Southern France with the 1st Air Force C-47 troop carrier group led by Col. Cemny of Idaho. The unit aided airborne troops and later returned with gliders full of troops and equipment.
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