Six Day Bicycle Champion Yates Serves At Sheppard Field
Cecil Yates of Chicago now in Section T trains as a sportsman turned airman at Sheppard Field. The six day bike racer and former junior and senior city champion recalls early wins, pro races and a life blending aviation and auto racing with Army service. He notes earnings, meals on the road, and hopes to fly gliders while his wife and two children live at Pass a Grille Beach.
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America
Cecil Yates
Chicago
Ill
Yates
Hicago
South
Ilinois
John M. Chapman
Madison Square Garden
New York
Kodak
Toew
Ing
Madison Care Garden
Hich
Stapp
Realistic Infiltration Course Uses Life Like Casualties
Sheppard Field basic training touts new gory dummies by the Training Aids Department. Sculptor William Ort and Pvt William Edwards create burlap bodies with rubber and salvaged clothes. Rookies fear a shell hole shared with a life sized casualty with fake wounds and blood.
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Harry Friedman
Sheppard Field
Air Forces
Texas
Walter W Bleakley
Ernest Groh
William Ort
Mr. Ort
Pvt
William Edwards
Mc Ort
Paul E. Sorel
Civilian Personnel Training at Sheppard Field Expands
Sheppard Field expands its civilian training program begun in 1944 to include more office staff and new groups. The military correspondence course, typing, pay roll and personnel management classes taught by Grace Petz Gwyn Koerner and Mildred Stringer aim to boost efficiency. Since January 1944, 178 participants completed the program with improved scores and readiness for posts.
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Sheppard Field
RAF
M & PE No. 8
Signal Corps
Grace Petz
Denver
Colo
Tary
School of Pharmacy
University of Kansas
Gwyn Koerner
Washington, D. C
Mildred Stringer
Myrtle Collins
Quick Finish Sought by Maurice H De Ford in War Bond Drive
Maurice H De Ford a trainee in Section K at Sheppard Field bought 9500 in War Bonds during the Fifth War Loan Drive. He owns a small chain of motion picture houses in Oklahoma and is a certified public accountant from Anadarko Oklahoma.
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Maurice H. de Ford
Pvt
de Ford
Sheppard Field
Oklahoma
Anadarko, Oklahoma
Out-Patient Clinic Moves to Building 1258
The out-patient clinic for dependents of military personnel shifts from Building 1296 to Building 1258 under Maj. Carroll C. Smith. Appointments are required. hours cover well babies, sick babies, prenatal, gynecology, and general medical services with specific daily times. Obstetrical care remains available to all eligible dependents.
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Carroll C. Smith
Smith
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