Four RAF Non-Coms Arrive To Take Helicopter Course
Four RAF mechanics arrive at Sheppard Field to begin a five week helicopter maintenance course at the Helicopter Training School. The group brings 21 years of RAF service and includes Sgt Raymond D. Block and Cpls Leslie Pullin Donald Oliver and John Russell. Russell married a Brooklyn girl during a previous stay in New York.
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RAF
Sheppard Field
England
US Coast Guard
Floyd Bennett Field
N. Y
Royal Air Force
Raymond D. Block
Cpl
Leslie Pullin
Africa
Donald Oliver
John Russell
Tax Installment Due By June 15
Military and civilian personnel at Sheppard Field must mail the second installment of the 1945 estimated tax by June 15 to the internal revenue collector. Payment is required even without notice and excuses are not valid. Send checks or money orders to the prior office. file an amended declaration if finances changed. Forms and info available from Lt. Richard M Greenebaum at the Post Judge Advocate Office Building B01.
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Sheppard Field
Internal Revenue
Richard M., Greenebaum
Office of the Post Judge Advocate
B01
Airways Traffic Control School Slated For Post
The Army Air Forces Training Command announces a new Airways Traffic Control School to be opened at Sheppard Field, the third added at the post in the last month. The program moves from Flushing, New York, under CAA, with opening date pending activation by CAA personnel and approval from Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Army Airways
Sheppard Field
Army Air Forces Training Command
Fort Worth
Civil Aeronautical Authority
Flushing
N. Y
Army Air Forces Headquarters
Washington, D. C
CAA
Army Airways Communications System
Sanduski Commends Helicopter Crews for Mass Flight
Major John J. Sanduski, Assistant Director of Helicopter Training, praised one officer and fifteen enlisted men for their work on the Chanute Field to Sheppard Field mass flight from May 22 to May 25, 1945. The commendation cited outstanding maintenance and esprit de corps that enabled a long distance flight of new aircraft. Recipients included Capt. Kermit J. Koenig and Mary E. Karnowski among others.
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John J. Sanduski
Chanute Field
Sheppard Field
Illinois
Texas
Esprit de Corps
Sanduski
Kermit J. Koenig
James E. Collier
David W. Fuller
William
Drive Launched To Protect Soldiers Valuables
Coordinated by the Provost Marshal and post officials at Sheppard Field, an education drive urges GI s to hide valuables, send home nonessential items, and record serial numbers of cameras watches radios and bills to deter barracks thefts. Soldiers are told to keep money to a minimum and turn in suspected thieves promptly.
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Sheppard Field Gus
Beauty Contest Entry Blanks On Page 10
Entry blanks for the Miss Sheppard Field of 1945 contest appear on Page 10. Persons and units nominating beauties must submit the forms to base Personnel Services Building 960 by Friday of next week.
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Texacts
Inter-Camp Snow Exchange to Start at Sheppard Field
Talent from four neighboring air fields will join Sheppard Field performers under a Training Command entertainment interchange. Keesler Amarillo Lowry Buckley and Sheppard Fields will pool talent to plan and present programs boosting participation and spectator interest. Chez Fatigue at Sheppard Field will anchor the traveling troupe with the Chez Fatiguers who toured Western Technical Training Command last year. Interchange may occur weekly depending on transportation.
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Sheppard Field
Keesler
Amarillo
Lowry
Buckley
Sheppard Fields
William L. F. Pooley
Chez Fatiguers
Western Technical Training Command
Three Sons in Army Earnest Support From Mrs Maudie Sheppard
Mrs Maudie Rogers Sheppard of Wichita Falls works at the C and E section and promotes payroll deductions for victory bonds. Her three sons in the armed forces are Norman, 18, Navy, wounded at Iwo Jima. Tommy, 20, 37th Division infantry, wounded on Luzon. Elmer, 23, Army MP, served in North Africa and Italy, now in France.
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Verseas
Maudie Rogers
Sheppard
Wichita Falls
C&e
Norman
Iwo Jima
Tommy
Luzon
Elmer
Italy
France
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