Boxers and Squads Welcome New Faces in Army Unit
The report notes improved shape for a Monday playoff game to reach a second contest for the Tigers and marks the boxing team as progressing while seeking more weight boxers. It lists three new permanent party members S Sergeant Walter Mertzig former 63rd wing Section X, Pvt Gerald Henery former Section X, and 1st Sergeant Edmon L. Foscue from Section M and the old 304 TG. The writer pledges full support and promises bigger news from Section V next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tigers
Walter Mertzig
63Rd Wing
Gerald Henery
Section X
Edmon L. Foscue
Inter-section softball final spills 12 5 arc
Barracks 322 from 324 defeated Barracks 329 12 to 5 in a final game. 322 broke open with five runs in the fifth and seven in the sixth while 329 managed only one run in the first and balanced scoring later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barracks 322
Barracks 324
Barracks 329
No. 322
No. 329
Wright
Prentice
Sosa
Linsky
Pte
Mose
James V. Larrabee
Leon Bioch
Leon
Pfe
William S. Poole
Booker
C. O
Sunset social and community notes from the era
A social column recounts a Sunset hayrack party hosted by the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the young Rebeccas, with music by Charles Claude Booker’s Society Band. It mentions engagements, marriages, planned July 4 plans, missing GI lockers, and a local business sale with a mortgage sale noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Young Rebeccas
Charles Claude Booker
Looker
Palmer House
Weather Watch: Sheppard Field Forecasters Aid Air Missions
Weather personnel at Sheppard Field run 24 7 operations under Lt Col Heinlein with Capt Newton in charge. They plot synoptic maps update forecasts every six hours and provide winds aloft data from balloons to guide pilots on routes and clearances for both training over Texas and combat missions overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Berlin
Sheppard Field
Third Weather Squadron
San Antonio
Oscar A. Heinlein
Alfred L. Newton
United States
Canada
Alaska
Mexico
Central America
Pacific
Atlantic
States
Wichita Falls
Tokyo
Do It Now Band Tour Lifts Local Laundry Venture
Former Pfo's Hoffman Gren and Franken receive promotions as top latrine squad members. Art Malnar launches Muggsy Malnar's Wet Wash Laundry after a mishap with post laundry, promising improvements in a humorous, self deprecating tone. Ten 24th veterans tour the countryside with the band show Do It Now, fueling local chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfo
Hoffman
Gren
Franken
NCO
Art Malnar
Muggsy Malnar
Malnar
Malnar Enterprises, Inc
Fido
24Th
Bustling GI Trailer Bus Ride Sparks Rowdy Digs
Informants report a medium ride in the GI trailer bus will fill seats and stories claim Hot Henry Gulick caused two dances to spark conflagrations with seven choruses of a jokey number. Drummer Ed Hagan leads the week in overexcited ping pong play, mixing a paradiddle with a hard serve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nonce
Henry” Gulick
Charlie Barnet
Henry
Ed Hagan
Hagan
Sam
Brother
Funeral Rites Held For Fireman's Kin
Don M. Gilson, a Sheppard Field fireman, attended funeral services in Lubbock Thursday for his father R. B. Gilson who died there Tuesday. Burial was in a Lubbock cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don M. Gilson
Sheppard Field
Lubbock
R. B. Gilson
D Day Poem by Chaplain Washburn Recalls Invasion
This piece honors D Day as Deliverance Day with vivid images of June 6 1944. It recalls prayers from home while soldiers land on Normandy and pay the ultimate price for freedom. The poem calls readers to learn and live, pledging memory for those who died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normandy
Knight Round Table entertainment draws record attendance
The Knights of the Round Table at the club set attendance records while staging a lively evening. Sgt Wheeler was initiated with a crown of papers and a red tassel as Pastory described the event. The Cardinals and Persuitti rivals draw attention as Doc Simpson and the Sick Book Seven performed. Bingo is on Tuesdays with dancing on Thursdays and Saturdays. elections will be held soon through organization representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of the Round Table
Wheeler
Persuitti
Knight
Pastory
Cardinals
Round Table
Dean
Doc” Simpson
Eddie Schultz
Tommy Patton
Tom Locke
Tony Butcher
Bob Campbell
Dick Hurd
Doc
Campbell
Sgt. F. L. Simpson
Chaplain Lt. Col. John MacWilliams Named Eighth Service Command Chaplain
Chaplain Lt. Col. John MacWilliams a regular Army veteran of more than 25 years has been selected as Eighth Service Command chaplain. He succeeds Chaplain Colonel Ora J. Cohee who has been assigned to a new overseas installation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John MacWilliams
Eighth Service Command
Ora J. Cohee
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Louis W. Siegman
Edgar I. Klain
George L. Edwards Cpl
Carrall C. Oakes
Kilzere
Santa Claus
Kilgore
Margarett
Mess 17
Hibernians
Sam King
Bar Q
Upper Sandusky
Cpl
Hubert R. Zuehlsdorff
Maj
Howard Martindale
8Th Service Command
Dallas
James Davis
Lowry Field
Colorado
RAF
James H. Ralston
Pic
Ray Krise
Magegsy
New England
Muggsy
D-Day
W. A. Washburn
Europe
France
T. Sgt
John Harrison
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