Civilian Personnel Cuts 360 Employees
About 360 civilian employees received 30 days notice of termination. They stay on active duty until July 31 and then take 15 days of leave. The inactivation of the field on August 31 reduces civilians to about 600 at the base next month. Veterans receive preference under Civil Service rules, with attempts to reassign permanent-status workers to other fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haywood M. Leveridge
Base Civilan
Leveridge
Civil Service
Deserter Son Urged to Return by Father at Kessler Field
A 1942 letter from a father to a son AWOL from Kessler Field expresses shock and shame at desertion, condemns cowardice, and urges immediate contact and pledge to serve country. The father emphasizes pride in the Army Air Corps and the need to confront truth and responsibility.
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Kessler Field
New Orleans
Army
Air Corps
THE
Kessler Field News
Snake hoax ends as North Texas towns tire of Mr. Snake
Wichita Falls area reporters recount the collapse of the long running reptile myth known as Mr. Snake. Residents and hunters admit the hoax involved a dummy pulled by rope to locations around the Cushion School district and Santa Fe market area.
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Ben Gould
Wichita Falls
Texas
Mr. Snake
Cushion
Santa Fe Market
Plan to reorganize Army pharmacy corps under Medical Service
Major General Norman T. Kirk proposes a War Department plan to fuse Pharmacy, Sanitary, and Medical Administrative corps into a single Medical Service Corps. The move would assign pharmacists oversight of drug procurement, storage, standardization, and distribution, with expanded command roles and combat deployment potential.
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Washington
CNS
Army Medical Department
War Department General Staff
Norman T. Kirk
Medical Service
Army
Italian Street Named for U S Pilot Charles S Dehmer
Italian village Carmignano di Brenta in Padova honors 1st Lt. Charles S. Dehmer of the 57th Fighter Group with a street name after his P 47 Thunderbolt crewed mission tragedy on December 9 1944. His burial by villagers preceded removal to U S authorities in June 1945 and his Ohio parents Mr and Mrs Louis Dehmer of Tiffin were informed.
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Army Air Forces Headquarters
State Department
Charless. Dehmer
Milan
Carmignano di Brenta
Padova
Dehmer
57Th Fighter Group
Italy
Louis Dehmer
Tiffin
Ohio
Weekday and Evening Religious Services Listed for Base Facilities
A stationwide religious services schedule lists Protestant Bivouac Area Chapel No 1 and 4, Christian Science at Building 532, Catholic Masses at Chapels 2 and 5, and Jewish services at Bivouac Area and Building 392. Weekly activities include Bible study and prayer meetings with mass times every weekday, plus confessions and Miraculous Medal Novena and Sacre Heart Movena on specified days.
Army advocates discipline and spiritual growth for soldiers
The piece argues free, well trained soldiers are best, rejects crude force, and stresses high character. It describes army standards for officers, the role of chaplains and chapels, and the duty of commanders to foster spiritual development without forcing participation. It urges self discipline and commitment to ideals worth defending with life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Army
The
Wall Street Journal
Congress
Classes Still Open At Wright Field
Wright Field Illinois announces that applications for training at the Army Air Force Institute of Technology will be accepted through July 31. The program at Wright Field Dayton Ohio offers engineering and logistics tracks for commissioned AAF officers with required college work and degree progress. The two year course runs normally, one year for the September 3 1946 start. A separate note reports a mess mishap with missing chicken pieces traced to the cook who mixed them into chicken salad.
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Aafttc
Scott Field
Ill
Army Air Force Institute of Technology
AAF Institute of Technology
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
AAF
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Sheppard Field
Col. O. L. Rogers
U. S
Ben
Christian Science
Church OF Christ Communion
Baptist Training Union Catholic
Hospital
Service Men Christian League
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R. Ellett
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