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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1943
Page
1
Singing flights of soldiers from the technical school and BYC will begin competing for honors next week. Judges will rate the performances as formations occur and post officials name group wing and squadron leaders to expedite the event.
The Sheppard Field WAAC company staged its first review before Maj. Gen. Jacob E. Fickel and Maj. Gen. J. E. Chaney. The entire company led by its three third officers passed in review in front of post headquarters.
War Department circular No. 122 dated May 18, 1948 prohibits wearing shirts whose fronts or backs have been specially creased due to labor shortages at quartermaster and civil ian laundries.
The NCO Club, once among the nation’s finest, shuts its doors amid heavy troop transfers and rationing of food and drinks. Officials urge past-due members to pay to settle accounts. a post reopening is not detailed. Opened March 1942, it hosted weekly dances and was available for unit parties.
Reporters and onlookers watched as Pfe. Russell Davis, 15th Mess, became the first soldier-depositor at the new post branch bank. He reluctantly handed over $120 to a cashier through the cage amid astonished spectators.
Post headquarters announced the upcoming establishment of a unit personnel section to manage personnel and accounting for 33 north-end organizations. The new unit will handle all paperwork and operate under the post S-1 office, consolidating clerical staff from the listed groups and detachments.
The Special Service Office plans Father for a Day for hundreds of soldiers overseas on Father’s Day. Capt Courtney A Tidwell says prominent local business and professional men will serve as temporary fathers for 3000 soldiers who will apply via squadron morale noncommissioned officers. Areas include Archer City Burkburnett Electra Henrietta Iowa Park Vernon Holliday Bowie and Wichita Falls.
Sheppard Field soldiers nearly lost access to soft drinks in nickel vendors as the Eighth Service Command ordered a 45 percent sugar reduction. Local bottlers secured special sugar allotments to keep soft drink syrup available, preventing a June drop from about 145000 to 87640 pounds. Candy and sugared snacks, typically slow in hot weather, were also affected.
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