TEXACTS Field Notes of Sierras GI Scene at Wichita Falls
An Army paper notes social swirl around Joseph Jankowski’s art exhibit at the Women's Forum in Wichita Falls. It highlights sergeants, lieutenants, and GIs with romances, collaring humor, and party chatter from Lt. Johnson to Sgt. Radner, plus plans for the War Loan Drive and a closing safety message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Jankowski
Women’s Forum
G. B. Anderson
Wichita Falls
Dick Flink
Texacts
Sgt
Sid Radner
Sheppard Field
Jane
Radner
Edward J. Hume
Bill
Post Office
Gilchrist
Hedy Lamar
Wanda Lou Gregg
Coleland Wykert
Frances Critz
PH Queen
Mildred Wood
Lace
Wichita
Larry Levin
Bob Heizman
Stanley Cowan
Don Gray
Irv Slifkin
Bob Thomas
Skinny Zimmers
Ed @arey
Alfredo del Signore
Eleanor
Ronnie
Texas
Glens Falls
N. Y
M. Set
Jacek VY. Norman
Greensborough
N. C
Jack
Larry Scott
Pearl Harbor
Jessie
Steve
78th Supply Room Opens in Building 876
New supply headquarters for the 78th permanent party enlisted men and transient officers is established behind the First Sergeant’s Section in Building 876. T. Sgt. Charles Ruth leads with Sgt. Harry Hoffman and Pfc. Ernest Nelson assisting. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with lunch served and dry cleaning accepted anytime. Laundry is not handled here until after December 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ruth
Harry Hoffman
Ernest Nelson
Morocco Mission Recalled by Lt McEver
Air Force officer Lt C A McEver of San Antonio recalls his standout career moment in French Morocco. He describes a bizarre incident where he witnessed an Arab eating a sandwich made from K-ration biscuits and a tube of American shaving cream during a bombing era dogfight era reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. McEver
San Antonio
French
Morocco
AIR Force
Texacts
Dentists Honor Dr Horace Wells at Wells Field Tribute
Post dental officers and Wichita Falls dentists gathered at the Wichita Health Unit to honor Dr Horace Wells on the 100th anniversary of anesthesia discovery. Col Lewis W. Mary announced the tribute and led a discussion comparing early anesthesia with modern methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
Wichita Health Unit
Horace Wells
Lewis W. Mary
Wells
Mail Room Teems At 78th AACS In Daily Routine
At Sheppard Field the 78th Air Base Unit mail room handles 15 000 to 18 000 first class pieces daily plus about 90 bags of other mail. Lt John Valersky says rush is Christmas driven but all mail reaches troops without delay. The 27 staffing members push year end deliveries to ensure Yuletide mail for Dec 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
78Th
Army Airways Communications System
Texacts
Joe Kalish
John Valersky
Bob Griffe
Roy Dunnavant
Cpl
H. D. Colson
78Th Air Base Unit
Sheppard Field
696
78Th Mail Room
Army Airways Communication System
NCOIC
Hershel W. Patterson
Marcel Sicard
Jim Wycoff
Larry Cossette
Bill Friend
al Hubschneider
Don Johnson
Howard Kellogg
Jim Kennedy
Bob Meyer
Woody” Wiseman
Robert E. Gant
Paul Sullivan
John Fewkes
Camera Club Formed At Lamar USO
All men invited to the Lamar USO for the initial meeting of a newly formed camera club at 8 p.m. The club welcomes professional photographers and amateurs under the direction of Mrs H M Muse whose work has been unusually successful Tear and 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamar
H. M. Muse
Talent auditions at Chez Fatigue club
Larry Levin seeks new talent for his GI nightclub Chez Fatigue. Tryouts and auditions are held every Monday at 1 pm in Building 961 to showcase singing acting dancing magic and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Levin
Second Lt. Thomas C. Brown Jr Joins New Air Forces Staff
Second Lt. Thomas C. Brown Jr arrived from McClelland Field California to serve as a new Education Information Officer for the 78th Personnel Services. A Griffin Georgia native, he entered the Air Forces in 1942 as an enlisted man and became a cryptographic NCO with the Troop Carrier Command before attending Officers' Candidate School in Miami in October 1945. He was commissioned last February and joined Lt. Col. Samuel N. Lapsley’s McClelland Field unit shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Brown, Jr
78Th Personnel Services
Special Service
McClelland Field
Calif
77Th Aaf
Brown
Griffin, Ga
Air Forces
Troop Carrier Command
Miami
Samuel N. Lapsley
Lieutenant Metzgar Assigned to Labrador Base
Lieutenant Robert E. Metzgar, formerly stationed here as a physical training officer, now serves at a Labrador base with the Air Transport Command as a priori ties and traffic officer. He departed last June after over 18 months on the post. his home is Media, Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Haskins
Haskins
Billy Malugen
Bill Verduin
Post Finance
Betty Boyd
Clarence Koselski
San Antonio
Robert E. Metzgar
Labrador
Air Transport Command
Media
Three Officers Oversee AACS Processing at Sheppard Field
The 78th AAF Base Unit at Sheppard Field assigns three officers to sections A B and C to supervise processing for thousands of AACS personnel heading overseas or returning from foreign service. Lt Thomas S Thompson heads Receiving, Capt Joseph M Fambrough runs Processing, and Capt Joe T Fallini leads Casual Pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AACS
78Th Aaf
Sheppard Field
Thomas S. Thompson
OIC
Thompson
War Production Training Division
War Manpower Commission
Oregon
78Th
Selfridge Field
Mich
Joseph M. Fambrough
Atlanta
Fambrough
Army
Army Airways Communications System
76Th
Lansley
Joe T. Fallini
Samuel N. Lapsley
Thomas $. Thompson
OFC
Joe T. Fallinit
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Harry Friedman
Post
Camera Club
Lamar Uso
Metzgar
Fallini
Mackay
Idaho
Lapsley
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