Thanksgiving Clarke notes and visits across Shafter area
Local notes recount Thanksgiving gatherings and travel. E K Grant and families visited Porterville and Delano, while Wittmayers hosted guests from Southgate and Watsonville. Many residents, including Flaming, Warren, Fairman, and Olson, spent holidays with kin or at local households.
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Wittmayer
G. A. Wittmayer
E. E. Grant
Southgate
S. A. Baldwin
Watsonville
Wittmayers
E. K. Grant
J. M. Heekin
Delano
Bobby Warren
Ed. Warren
the Shafter
Burbank Military Academy
Stanford
Merwin ~ Olson
Stanford University
Shafter
T. Olson
Movie Star Joins U S Navy Ensign Wayne Morris
Ensign Wayne Morris of I Wanted Wings fame joined the U S Navy in May 1941. He praises Navy aviation training and career paths including pilots, aviation machinists, metalsmiths, and photographers at Long Beach Naval Reserve Air Base.
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Shafter
Rule
Long Beach
Relativac and
Financie
Wayne Morris
Uncle Sam's Navy
Sgn
United States Navy
Morris
Navy
Naval Reserve
Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board
Long Beach Naval Reserve Air Base
Former Walt Disney Animator Finds Fame at Windsock
Pvt Earl H Freeman staff cartoonist for The Windsock and former Disney animator speaks in a roving interview. Born in Indianapolis he joined Bakersfield Basic Flying School two weeks before Windsock began. He recalls farm boy beginnings, early discouragement, and persistence leading to published car toons and a busy workload.
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Earl H. Freeman
The
Walt Disney
Earl
Indianapolis
Ind
Freeman
Bakersfield
Weather Dept. Receives Precision Pendulum Clock
The Air Corps Basic Flying School near Bakers Field unveils a highly accurate pendulum clock for the Weather Service. About five feet high and eighteen inches wide, the clock is wound by an electric motor and will ring bells to signal weather check times, as part of the Air Corps Supply procurement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Corps Basic Flying School
Bakers' Field
H. S. Anthon
Weather Service
Air Corps
Enlisted men transferred to Lemoore Basic Flying School
Four soldiers including Staff Sergeants Roy T. Kittock and Kenneth V. Lutes and Privates Charles T. Steinhardt and Kl Elvin greet new posting at Lemoore Basic Flying School reporting there last Wednesday. They say they are happier there, so they plan to stay.
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Roy T. Kittock
Kenneth V. Lutes
Charles T. Steinhardt
Kl. Elvin
Greet
Lemoore
War Department approves transfer of bombardier training to West Coast center
War Department authorities authorize moving Albuquerque Air Corps Combat Flying Field to the West Coast Air Corps Training Center as a bombardier training school. Barksdale Louisiana becomes a combat unit base and Albuquerque will house 350 bombardier students 432 officers and 2504 enlisted men at full capacity. The move aims to use better weather and higher ceilings to speed training and will expand West Coast bases to 23 with three additional schools planned at Victorville Higley and Roswell.
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War Department
Albuquerque
Air Corps
Fiek
West Coast Air C Training Center
New Mexico
Barksdale
Louisiana
Barksdale Field
West Coast
Air Corps ‘Training Center
United States
WCA Ctc
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West Coast Air Corps Training Center
California
Arizona
Nevada
Wcactc
Victorville
Calif
Higley
Atiz
Roswell
N. M
Fifteen Post Men Graduated as Red Cross Instructors
Fifteen enlisted men completed a 45 hour course sponsored by the American Red Cross and were graduated as Red Cross instructors. Homer P. Groening, ARC field representative, conducted the two week course. The program trains army men to act as first aid instructors at the post.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
Homer P. Groening
The
Red
Five Selective Service Men Released From Active Service
Five selective service trainees attached to Lerdo Basic Flying School were released from active service this week. All are over 98 years old. Privates Thomas Stopham Arnold M. Thompson William K. Ray Joseph M. Woolfe and Hiram G. Sherman from the 72nd Air Base Group transferred to the Enlisted Reserve Corps.
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Porterville
J. H. Hays
Oklahoma
John Flaming
Corn
G. B. Flaming
Louise Fairman
Richland
Mayme Brother
Hazell Johnson
Chuck” Walkeralias
Washington
Dixie S. Mayalois
Virginia
A. D. Hevins
Florida
Red” Schvisalias
Virgil D. Arthour
San Pedro
Jack Stevens
Georgia
William J. Suckut
Flora Cavner
Loma Lee Goertzen
Martha Goertzen
Mable Suckut
Lee Wilson
Turlock
Dos Palos
Bill Bestwater
Elsie Warren
Pete Bender
Neuman Cafe
Neuman
Bob Neumen
Boots Perry
Dave Unruh
Bill Lachenmaier
Bill Neuman
Couty
R. J. Veon
Ofersfield
Fred Hare
F. E. Hare
Howard Hare
Rosedale
Donald Hare
Colorado
F. A. Barber
Pueblo
Guy Mayfield
Hemet
Les Hobson
Lillian Locke
Jack
Ella James
Mrs. James
Hare
San Diego
Ed. Friesen
J. R. Bergen
Friesens
Bergen
Ike Peters
P. ‘L. Bergen
W. “Bergen
John ‘Remsburg
Jean Henderson
Fresno State College
J. B. Henderson
Morgan Hill
Taylor Tabb
Betty
Tabb
Mrs. O. ©. Osborn
Los Angeles
Harvey Neuman
John Wastbinder
Wastbinder
Taft
Fallbrook
Harvey Blacklidge
Will Blacklidge
Bill Blacklidge
San Diego County
Riverdale
W. W. Tannahill
Alex
Chandlers
Alfred T. Chandler
Mr. Chandler
Will Chandler
Oroville
Trip
Bert Hebel
Kansas
George Isaac
Mrs
John. Isaac
Don Harper
U.S. Navy
Weather Dept
Bank of America
Bank OF America Christmas Monasy Orpen
Bank of America Seubuinadee Eianici E Ta Atanes
W.ac.t.c
Bombardiers
Air Corps Combat Field
Selective Service
Safeway
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Unter
Borden
M. J. B. Coffee
Folger's Coffee
Pabst-ott
Sanden Tea
Pabst Cheezham
Dairyland
Sunnybank Oleon
SAS
Bisquick
Amer. Medical Assn. Council On Foods
Cherub
Libby
America
AE Fy
Heinz
Goa
Julia Lee Wright
Tamata CauAr
van Camp
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