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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1944
Page
5
A wartime bulletin notes payroll signings, bond applications and postwar plans. It lists servicemen in Section A and B detailing bond purchases, potential postwar car production, and thrift drives led by officers and NCOs. Personal quips mix with notes on sports events, PT, and unit memories as a farewell message from Bunny Levitt.
Ellen Trianovich born in Avon Lake Ohio a mail clerk runner and acting duty sergeant for the WAC led a varied athletic life. She starred in girls basketball touring teams coached by Cleveland sports firms and performed with the Billy Rose Aquacade swimmers alongside Eleanor Holm Jarrett and Johnny Weissmuller. A Red Cross swimming instructor and multilingual Serbian descent, she joined the WAC January 18 1944 at Lorain Ohio and reported to Fort Des Moines Iowa then Maxwell and Sheppard Fields before arriving in Avon Lake May 18 1944. Two brothers serve in the military.
Updates from hospital unit Section E cover a new sergeant major appointment, an engagement between Doc Liebert and Miss Parker, a greenhouse for patient flowers nearing completion, a successful member dance with a trumpet duel, and praise for the Mustangs baseball team with coaching and player milestones noted.
It couldn’t be done but they did it with Barrack 110 beating Barrack 109 in the regular Saturday morning inspection. The tone celebrates Barrack 110 as the standout unit in the routine tally.
Captain Abercrombie from New York City commanded Section H at Sheppard Field since June 1941 after civilian work with Graybar Electric. He and Mrs. Abercrombie reside at 2248 Piedmont Wichita Falls with two young sons as the unit trains glider maintenance and advances cadet officers. Lt. Curtis G. Smith sits adjutant and PT officer, with Lt. Ronald B. Slavin, First Sgt. Rudolph Schweitzer, and Sgt. Kenneth R. Hudson among staff. The unit emphasizes self administration to give trainees a glimpse of future officer duties.
A World War II camp note compares barracks 110 topping rankings and praises Chaplain E B McAlister replacing R T Perry. It recalls a Mustang vs Hurricanes baseball game with errors blamed on lazy fielding and notes Pvt Wilton J Evans and Pfc George W Clark departing for a venereal disease control course at Tuskegee Institute on June 16, 1944.
Sgt John J Taylor aged 26 from Ackworth Iowa is highlighted as the Warhawks hot corner fielder and batter. He joined June 9 1941 after training at Fort Des Moines and Jefferson Barracks Mo before reporting to Sheppard Field July 21 1941 and remaining in the same unit since. He plans to return to farming in Iowa after the war.
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