Californians Rally at Lamar Avenue USO
About 300 California soldiers gathered Friday at Building 592 Lamar Avenue USO for a registration rally led by Pvt. John B. Knight. They plan a Sunday meeting at 7 p m to organize a larger second state night and potential celebration, with entertainment and a message from James Rolph and a telegram from Tom Velonis.
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Lamar Avenue
California
Richard C. Gowaleski
421St
James Rolph
Tom Velonis
Electra Club Opens For Post Soldiers
Electra Oklahoma readies a Soldiers Visiting Club located 25 miles from Sheppard Field. The facility will include showers reading rooms lounging areas and a second floor steel cut display. Civic clubs and residents supply decorations and furnishings and ask soldiers to treat the club as home and honor Pearl Harbor.
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Electra
Sheppard Field
Cub
Clu
Aee
Pearl
Tuesday Night Show Open To Amateurs
Entertainers are invited to take part in the weekly amateur show at the Eighth street USO on Tuesday nights. The program is for soldiers and civilians and is not competitive. Refreshments are served to performers after the show. Remember Pearl Harbor.
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Eighth Street Uso
John O'Connell
Pearl Harbor
Dentists Aren't Tough Here's the Proof
A war article recounts a soldier visit to a dentist with novocaine easing pain. Lt. Medford Riley administers the shot and extraction while soldiers joke about the ordeal. The narrator endures the procedure, noting cotton in the mouth and a grim mirror reaction.
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CORP
John Douglas
Foxacts
Cray
Lt. Medford Riley
Air Crew Gunners Earn Wings and Flying Pay
The Army Air Forces will award wing insignia to flexible gunners graduating from gunnery training and provide flying pay to flexible gunners, bombardiers, and navigators on flight duty. Flying pay equals a 50 percent base pay increase, with current physical exam standards likely to loosen soon to admit more enlisted men to air crew roles.
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Army Air Forces
War Department
Riding Club Outing For Sheppard Field Soldiers
The Lamar USO sponsors a riding outing for off duty soldiers every Thursday at 6 30 p m meeting at the Lamar USO and transporting to the 77 ranch for horseback riding as a new recreational diversion at Sheppard Field.
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Sheppard
Lamar Uso
Orders and Slogans Highlight Post War Contest At Base
Public Relations officer Charles La Fontaine faced an order dispute over using a mimeograph after 5 p m at post headquarters. He finally obtained permission by arranging to include himself as operator. Enlisted men are urged to submit slogans for a contest stressing national war effort with sample ideas given.
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Charles la Fontaine
la Fontaine
Pearl Harbor
Sheppard Field
Largest Medhs Class Graduates At Sheppard Field
The largest class to finish training at Sheppard Field left the classrooms Thursday and received diplomas at 8:30 am in hangar 2. Maj. John W. Bratcher awarded certificates to eight squadron members. Capt. David Hanson directed the exercises. Many graduates will be retained as instructors to aid the Army Air Forces expansion. Parents and immediate families attended with permission.
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Sheppard Field
John W. Bratcher
David Hanson
Army Air Forces
Civilian Firemen Assume Duties at Sheppard Field
Civilian firemen join 63 professional firefighters at Sheppard Field under civil service rules leaving only 10 soldiers in the fire department. Captains Maguire and Rowe command, with M. Set. Percy Van Note as chief clerk. A fire prevention bureau inspects for hazards while six men rotate daily. Firemen train in army firefighting methods including shutting off electric current and fuel lines on aircraft.
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Sheppard Field
J. W. Patterson
Patterson
J. A. Maguire
John E. Rowe
M. Set
Percy van Note
Pearl Harbor
Promotions Highlight New First Lieutenants
Elmeren Azro Shelton Hendricks James William Miller receive recognition as the page continues. Wearing new first lieutenant's bars are Richard Corner Jr John Vailton Murphy Harry William Dannerell George Joseph Evans John Adams Houston Eugene Marshall Egle and John V Cuff.
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Elmeren
Azro Shelton Hendricks
James William Miller
Richard Corner, Jr
John Vailton Murphy
Harry William Dannerell, Jr
George Joseph Evans
John Adams Houston
Eugene Marshall Egle
John V. Cuff
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I Am
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Paramount
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Paramount Studio
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Medhs
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Xen
Indiana
State Theatre
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