Overseas Notes Bring Names, Jests From Far Fronts
A Wichita Falls paper column shares light hearted reports from service personnel abroad. Sgt Bob Bordner on Luzon earns TEXACTS weekly, while M Sgt Bob Riley, an ex China aerial photographer, sends greetings to Pfc Jack Beers. Several Public Relations Office staffers end up on the same Philippines island. A memo clarifies name order in Chinese. Pvt George Limerly returns from infantry with a guitar and insurance sales past. TEXACTS cites four million post movie patrons with a joke on the single man raising the total. A potential Mister Sheppard Field name for beauty contests. Bill Arnold earns best dressed at inspection. Cpl Marshall Shepherd tours with bit tipping, now in the neuro-psychiatric clinic at the regional station hospital. Sgt Spence Gates is in hospital recuperating. A coffee line moment recapped featuring Mrs Eunice Paddock and Pfc Charles Paddock, famous as an expert unicyclist. Public PR Office seeks calls from France veterans’ families in Wichita Falls.
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Betty Rudd
General Mess Office
Bob Bordner
315Th
TSS
Luzon
Bob Riley
China
Pfc
Jack Beers
Bob
Jim Tippett
Claude Parton
Marvin Lore
Clair Hull
Philippines
Jung Gin
Gin Jung
Bill Smith
Smith Bill
Gin
Jung
George Limerly
Squadron
Infantry
Tennessee
WJHL
Texacts
Sheppard Field
Pic
Bill
Lee
Marshall
Spence Gates
Spence
78th & E Section Publishes 20 Page Booklet for GIs
The 78th Information and Education Forum is issued as a 20 page booklet with drawings by Cpl. Phil Garland and edited by Pfc. Don Beckley. It covers Germany the Soviet Union the Far East Latin America the British Empire U S foreign policy and world security plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Phil Garland
Pfc
Don Beckley
Germany
Soviet Union
U. S
Far East
Latin America
British Empire
Base official cites ongoing I and E program progress
Lt. Thomas C. Brown Jr., personnel services officer at the base unit, described the current I and E program as making steady progress and noted ongoing efforts to improve efficiency and morale within the unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Brown Jr
Mrs Taylor Calls Women to Aid ARC Dressings Drive
Mrs Floyd Taylor, chair for Red Cross activities at the Officer's Wives Club, urges more women to help wrap surgical dressings to meet Sheppard Field’s quota. Meetings are every Tuesday at 9:30 AM in Building 1242 base hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Taylor
Red Cross
Officer’s Wives Club
Sheppard Field
Wounded patients haunt nurse with empty helpless feeling
Lt. Mary Lou Tunnel recalls duty in the South Pacific and aboard hospital trains as she cared for the wounded. She notes the mood of the ill, the strain of jungle fever cases, and the stark contrast to peacetime life while praising the service of the few who bear the heaviest losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Tunnel
South Pacific
Army Nurse Corps
Camp Wolters
Texas
United States
New Guinea
Australia
Lieutenant Tunnel
Van
Tunnel
Story
Philippines
Army
Winston Churchill
Convalescent Training Staff Aims High In Mending Minds
Lt. Joe D. Sutton announces renaming of the program to Convalescent Services Program at Sheppard Field regional hospital. The program now includes crafts education vocational guidance psychological instruction and resocialization across three phases recreational physical reconditioning and academic mental development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AAF
Convalescent Services Program
Joe D. Sutton
Sheppard Field
RAF
Leo J. Mahon
Carl Tehel
Edgar F. Heiskell
Redeployment Effort Highlights Pacific Shipping Strain
The piece outlines the wartime logistics challenge of moving infantry and armored divisions across the Pacific. It notes 16 week round trips for Pacific cargo runs, conversion of 272 Liberty ships and 100 Victory ships to troop transports, and 6 to 8 ships needed per infantry division. It details yearly rifle, machine gun, and jeep spare parts needs, and the massive tonnages required to supply 1,000 B 17s, including ammunition bombs gasoline oil and misc supplies, with 30 days raising totals to 145000 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atantic
Pacific Theater
Pacific
Retiring Board Draws Lt Col Gravitt In Texas
Lt Col Roscoe R Gravitt, food service supervisor, left Monday to appear before the Army Retiring Board in San Antonio Texas. Major Bennett J Hartman, general mess officer, will act as food service supervisor until further notice per Post Headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe R. Gravit
Food Service
Army Retiring Board
San Antonio
Texas
Bennett J. Hartman
Test Flight Leaders Depart for Dayton for 30 Day YR54 Trials
Capt. Fred A. Kelly and Capt. Spencer H. Brewster of the Helicopter Training School left Monday for Dayton Army Air Field Ohio to conduct an accelerated service test on YR54 helicopters for thirty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Kelly
Spencer H. Brewster
Dayton Army Air Field
Ohio
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Johnny Fryer
Mrs. Taylor
ARC
Officer’s Club
Brisbane
Louisiana Maneuvers
Gray Ladies
Milton Caniff
Terry and the Pirates
Miss Lace
TIMES
Due Uta
R. R. Gravitt
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