Sheppard Field Cadets Welcome New Year With Dances and 36 Hour Leave
Cadets at Sheppard Field celebrate 1942 with a 36 hour pass from duty and multiple dances. The Officers Club hosts a Wichita Falls Country Club gala at 9 p.m. with cocktail hour, breakfast, and Wings of Music. Non Commissioned Officers Club also dances at 9 p.m. with propeller branch dinner dance at Wichita Wells Country Club. Faculty Club hosts a 7:30 p.m. New Year's Eve ball at Weeks Park Golf Club. USO offers a special New Year's program at 7:30 p.m. and a New Year’s Day matinee theater.
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Sheppard Field
Sheppard Field Officers’ Club
Wichita Falls Country Club
Officers’ Club
Weeks Park
USO
Rumor Disturbs Cadets Over Garrison Cap Wear
A barracks rumor at Sheppard Field unsettled personnel as cadets traded garrison caps at low prices amid chatter that an order would ban non flight caps. No official order has prohibited wearing garrison caps.
Christmas Gum Drops and the Sarge Legend from Charlemagne to Sheppard
A humorous look at soldiers receiving homemade treats after Christmas. The piece imagines Charlemagne era messes and links them to modern Sheppard Field deliveries, with officers overwhelmed by a flood of cookies and fudge sent by home front supporters.
Four Volunteers Save Major Dungans Wife With Blood Transfusion
Mrs. Harold E. Dungan, wife of the 70th Air Base group commander, was critically ill at Fort Sill Station hospital. An urgent operation depended on a blood transfusion as her red count was too low. four volunteers from Sheppard Field and one officer donated blood, aiding her rapid recovery and prompting gratitude from Major Dungan and his wife.
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Harold E. Dungan
Dungan
70Th Air Base Group
Fort Sill
Walter B. Brooks
James V. Larson
Lowell D. Short
62Nd Air Base
Andrew M. Sabow
76Th
Cadet Examining Board Recorder Promoted at Pearl Harbor
Lt. H C Starke succeeds Lt M E Thompson as recorder of the cadet examining board at Pearl Harbor. Thompson transfers to the Academic Department. Starke, a former supply officer in area K, has served in the Air Corps at Sheppard Field since August 11. He is a University of Michigan graduate who received his commission in the Coast Artillery in 1939.
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H. C. Starke
M. E. Thompson
Thompson
University of Michigan
Coast Artillery
Starke
Air Corps
Sheppard Field
New Students Enter Air Corps Technical School
Delayed by holidays, the seventh class will join the Air Corps Technical School on Saturday June 3 under Col. E C Black. Nine hundred cadets form the first 1942 class to train as Airplane Mechanics, with earlier groups advancing into electrical and etcine construct phases in the Engine Division housed in the fifth building.
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Air Corps Technical School
Col. E. C. Black
Air Corps
H. F. Johansen
Parking Rules Set for Sheppard Field by Capt Czingili
A new order by Capt John Czingili, provost marshal, limits private car parking at Sheppard Field after today to in front of squadron orderly rooms and two new lots near highway entrances. Only vehicles registered with the military police may be on post. officers get green stickers and NCOs and civilians orange. officers may use cars for duty while others must park and walk to lots. A Wichita Falls police warning reinforces city ordinance against jaywalking with arrests possible if safety rules are not followed.
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Sheppard Field
John Czingili
Wichita Falls
Training Program Opens For Cadet Exam Eligibility
High school graduates blocked from Air Corps cadet slots gain a 12 week prep course starting Feb 3 at Reagan Junior High under Wichita Falls Junior Chamber of Commerce. Sessions run Tue Thu 7 10 pm with tuition eight to 12 dollars plus a $3 book deposit refundable on completion.
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Reagan Junior High School
Wichita Falls
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Army Recruiting Office
Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Auto Drivers Must Buy 1942 Licenses
All personnel at Sheppard Field owning cars must obtain Texas license plates when their home state plates expire. License year begins April 1 with pro-rated fees. Purchase at County Tax Collector Auto License Bureau in Wichita Falls basement. Require title certificate. exemptions with proof of ownership. Operators license from Texas State Highway Department required. out of state licenses honored until expiration. Licenses valid for two years and cost 50 cents.
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Sheppard Field
Texas
John Czingili
Auto License Bureau
Wichita Falls
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Heppard Men
By Pvt
John Douglas
Texacts
Uncle Sam
Joe Alsup
Littlefield
Pred Abbott, Jr
John R. Muir
Stanley Wallen
Charles F. Picke
Gerald Skibbins
J. R. Downing
Glenn Perryman
Stephenville
Dale Perkins
Joseph B. Stanley
James FP. Walsh
U. S. Air Corps
Charlemagne
Sarge
Don Dana
Jones
Major
Rememder
Pearl Harbor
ACTS
Pearl
Nember Peart Harbor
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