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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1944
Page
4
News for TEXACTS 3706th AAF Base Unit published at Sheppard Field Texas invites general release through the Public Relations Office. Contributions should be submitted to Building 843 by noon Wednesday. Squadron Squibs deadline is 4 p.m. Monday.
Editorial urges strict safety in offices, shops, and training to lower preventable injuries in the Army. It cites 24 disabling accidents this month, 14 preventable, and condemns horseplay as the most useless hazard, noting the cost in hospital time and manpower.
A narrator recalls a dawn home visit in 1944 as his father, bearing a war plant badge, returns on the walk from his shift. The scene honors American dads who built weapons for the war effort and shaped the family’s sense of freedom. The memory blends love, duty, and gratitude for a father’s sacrifice.
At the Texas Press Association event in Dallas Maj. Joe Kilgore Ralph Heinzen and J Norman Lodge shared wartime perspectives. Kilgore praised the Liberator’s crew and planes while Heinzen warned of Little Nazis and explained Germany’s path to defeat. Lodge described Pacific battles and predicted a hard long fight ahead with victory in Europe within 16 months.
A columnist recalls a eastern college lecturer who framed a course Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry to explore human conduct. The doctor—detective and medic—moved through the city in a worn car, relying on eye study to gauge truth, and even bound himself in a cast to feel patients’ ordeals. The piece ends with a moral: learn by walking in another’s shoes, as in Army command.
The article last week misidentified Maj R. M. Jackson as Captain Jackson while detailing the Commanding Officer of Section F. The correction clarifies the proper rank and name as Maj R. M. Jackson.
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