Recruiting Drive Speeds Enlistments for B-29 Projects
The SF recruiting office announced a speed-up plan to process 40 to 50 enlistees a day for a B-29 project slated to depart for Europe in a few months. Since the program began 630 enlistments are on record with 280 under one year and 18 months, and 350 sent to other fields for three year reenlistment.
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Europe
William D. Hallenbeck
MOS
Galloway H. Clary
Clary
Mf . Aa
Base Separation Unit Praised For Quick Discharges
SEP BASE discharged over 18 000 enlisted men and officers during ten weeks of operation opened September 17 and extended to November 30 under Maj Leland Smith and Maj John Scruggs. The unit handed 15 076 enlisted men and 3 189 officers their papers while earning commendations from Maj Generals Hodges Streett Fort Worth. Most personnel likely to be absorbed on the field.
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Air Force
Technical Training Command Headquarters
Leland Smith
John A Scruggs
Courtney H. Hodges
Army Air Force Training Command
St. Clair Streett
Continental Air Forces
Fort Worth
Texas
Scruggs
Officers' Wives Club Meeting At Sheppard Field
The Sheppard Field officers wives club will meet at the officers club on Wednesday December 5 1945 at 10 30 a m Mrs R Beam announced. The program includes a surgical dressing table setup at 10 30 a m a 12 30 p m business meeting and a 1 00 p m seated luncheon Afterwards attendees may play bridge or continue with the dressing table.
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Sheppard Field Officers Wives Club
Officers’ Club
R. Beam
Survey Finds Negro Troops Top in ETO Fighting
The study shows two thirds of officers and noncoms initially opposed to mixed units but 77 percent warmed to the idea after serving with them and no one shifted to less favorable views. White and black troops in same unit got along fairly well and Negro platoons served with seven divisions after volunteering from rear areas. Stars and Stripes noted the plan was for military needs and combat opportunity, not race relations.
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Ers
Belgium
Stars and Stripes
Unification of Armed Forces Plan Examined
The article reviews questions and answers on a proposed single department of armed forces and civilian control. It covers budget integration, marine corps status, safeguards against domination, future of the joint chiefs, air arm equality, rivalry vs cooperation, seniority, National Guard training, and lessons from German and Japanese outcomes.
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Department of Armed Forces
War Department
War and Navy Departments
U. S. Chiefs of Staff
Congress
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United Way
Praecenite
Air Arm
Armed
National Guard
Curbstone Lament from Army Times a Vet's Plea for Shelter
A wartime poem voices cold hardships of veterans seeking housing. The speaker laments frigid nights, scarce plumbing, and crowded living, urging Congress and housing authorities to provide a proper home before Christmas. The poem frames veteran welfare and housing as urgent political issues.
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Army Times
Normandy
Attu
FHA
Blandford
Santa
Congress
Farmers Union plan aids veterans to borrow for farms
The National Farmers Union proposed a program to help veterans borrow to buy farms or improve farms at 3 percent interest with a 40 year repayment perk and a variable repayment option.
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Washington
CNS
National Farmers Union
Rippe Leads NCO Club Stewardship at SF Field
Sgt. Roger F. Rippe, sworn into the Army on April 13 1942, serves as NCO Club steward at San Francisco Field SF and later a buck private, now in basic training at Sheppard Field Texas. A Los Angeles native, Rippe plans reenlistment and recalls founding the NCO Club in September 1943 and its early month operations.
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Army
Roger F. Rippe
NCO
Texas
Sheppard Field
Los Angeles
Rippe
Q. SF
RAF
L. A
Roger
Sgt
Ross Pastory
Pastory
408Th
308Th
AAF
California
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Marie
SEP
U. S
United State
Curbstone
NCO Club
Roger Rippe
Sfeld Timer
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