Hoyle Heads to Maria Texas for Advanced Flying School
Lt. Col. Gerald Hoyle, after 14 years in the AAF and service as Win ter Field cadet training director, moves to the Maria Texas Advanced Flying School this week to take command. His career includes March Field, Kelly Field 1930, Rockwell Field, Nichols Field, Randolph Field 1935 1940, and training roles at Las Vegas Moffett Field and the WCAF center.
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AAF
Gerald Hoyle
Winter Field
Maria
Tex
Hoyle
March Field
Kelly Field
Graduaton
Rockwell Field
Nichols‘ Field
Randolph Field
Blood donors pledge at Minter Field sub Depot
Workers at Minter Field sub Depot vow to donate blood to aid wounded after bombing. About 200 personnel have agreed to give a pint each, Kern General Hospital in Bakersfield reports the effort may reach 225 donors. Budge has contributed 16 donations totaling over 6 pints, including several large gifts.
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Minter Field
Kern
General Hospital
Bakersfield
Milton M. Aero Repair Deepartment
Budge
Purple Heart for Pfc. Domenico Tussio at Bakersfield event
Pfc. Domenico A. Tussio receives the Purple Heart for wounds from the December 7 attack on Hickam Field. He will be decorated during a monster review and variety show at Griffith Stadium Bakersfield on August 18, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club to aid Mixter Field's swimming pool drive for servicemen.
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Pearl Harbor
Domenico A. Tussio
Tussio
Japan
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Griffith Stadium
Bakersfield
Kiwanis Club
Mixter Field
Dawn Patrol Keeps Bakersfield PX Breakfast Service Open
A corps of 24 Bakersfield women staff the Minter Field Post Exchange restaurant opening at 7 each morning. The dawn patrol serves doughnuts coffee and full breakfasts to military personnel who miss mess call. Workers hail from multiple states and Mexico now calling Bakersfield home.
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E Corps
Bakersfield
Minter Field
Minter
Post Exchange
Maj. B. Mitchell
The
Union
Arkansas
Maryland
Oklahoma
Kansas
Mexico
Gladys Christen
Camp Robinson
Ark
Christen
Helen Caughey
Ellabelle Coates
Emma Lee Dyer
Patricia Fisher
Madelene Fontas
Virginia Foreigh
Lena MaeGregor
Ethel Harvey
Edith Hutchinson
Pat Jordan
Commando Training Tactics Taught at Minter Field
Cadets at Minter Field receive teachins on commando techniques including eye gouges and underwater swimming to avoid shark attention. Coach Carl Nichols says training prepares flyers for possible sea rescues, with obstacle course plans near the baseball diamond and sessions for classes 42 J, 42 K, and later 43 A at Santa Ana.
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Minter Field
Carl Nichols
Minter
Santa Ana
Local Names Listed in Community Notice
Vera Martin, Dorothy Mitchell, Agnes Morehead, Muriel Norton, Mary Ostrander, Prudence Romero, Dorris Scott, Kathleen Smith, Ethel Snell, Bertha Thompson, Bette Upton, Bess Webb and Audrey Williams appear in the readable portion of a local public notice listing residents or participants.
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Vera Martin
Dorothy Mitchell
Agnes Morehead
Muriel Norton
Mary Ostrander
Prudence Romero
Dorris Scott
Kathleen Smith
Ethel Snell
Bertha Thompson
Bette “Upton
Bess Webb
Audrey Williams
Minter Cadets Athletic Champs of West Coast
Minter Field's 42 F cadets top West Coast tests crediting head coach Carl Nichols and assistants Jack Hilton Pete Provost Kristo Sugich. A 59-man effort under a daily hour athletic program set records in 75 yard dash seven six seconds broad jump nine feet ten inches and 100 push ups. The squad chants Pick em up lay em down as they train for expanding Air Force.
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Minter Field
West Coast
Carl Nichols
Nichols
West
Jack ‘Hilton
Pete Provost
Kristo Sugich
Flaxstraw Source in San Joaquin Valley
The San Joaquin valley remains a principal source of flaxstraw used to manufacture America’s cigarette paper, underpinning a key supply chain in the industry.
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San Joaquin Valley
America
Officers Code Classes Open For Training Sessions
The Minter's ground training department begins a series of visual and audible code classes for officers. Capt. W. W. Weber announces sessions available on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays in room 7 building 741 starting at 10 a.m.
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Minter
W. W. Weber
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Wowco
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Aids Blood Bank
Pvt. F. R. Andrews
Ralph
Kern County
Richard Alexander
Schneider
Wikoff
Digg 5 Fis Supplies
Cecil L
Minter Cadets
Basie
Cornélius Warmerdam
Fresno State Colllege
Portant
Frazier’s
Ford Garage
Seventh Street
Wasco
P . Tings
San Joaquin Pipe & Salvage Company
Chester Ave
P. O
Leo B. Hart
Thomas Harold
Werdel
Forty-first
William L
Superior Court
Shafter Press
Great Shafter
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