Local Servicemen Home For Christmas Holidays
Ensign Bob Montgomery stationed at Portsmouth Virginia will arrive December 18 to spend Christmas with his parents and sister before resuming duty January 9. Sgt A J Hendricks, returning from England, France, Germany and Australia, has received the Unit Presidential Citation and other ribbons. Sgt Bul Anderson is en route home for Christmas after overseas service. Major Creal Black on terminal leave will be discharged in February. Sgt Amos Mouser earned the Silver Star on Luzon for gallantry aiding a wounded man under fire. Pfc Albert H Ralph has arrived in the States after two years overseas and will be home within two weeks. Subscription to The Herald offered as a Christmas gift.
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Bob Montgomery
Navy
Portsmouth
M EC Montgomery
A S Waters
A J Hendricks
Army Air Forces
England
France
Germany
Austra
States
Hendricks
Oklahomi Texin Vi
hKansis
Tennessee Tle
Will Mike
Id Yars D le Goff
Morley
Bul Anderson
United States
Major
Creal Black
Bernie
M E Montgomery
Phoebe Black
Lieut
William Black
Pacific Theatre
Black
Amos . Mouser
Ben Mouser
Matthews
Luzon
Mauser
Mouser
Cletis Hart
Pfc
Albert H Ralph
Veterans Return Home From War Fronts In 1944 Draft
S Sgt Dessie D Rubel of Sikeston was discharged at Fort Knox Kentucky this week Cpl Charles P Harrison heads home from Pearl Harbor as part of 2100 high point Army veterans aboard USS Colorado Pvt James R LeGrand son of Sikeston residents was honorably discharged from the Army Air Forces He enlisted February 20 1911 Ensign A S Waters stationed at Norfolk Virginia and his wife returned to Sikeston for the holidays Ensign Waters also met his twin sons for the first time The 1944 ships weight record shows 16 343 436 deadweight tons produced in the United States 2 343 000 tons less than 1943
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Dessie D Rubel
Sikeston
Army of the United States
Fort Knok, Ky
Cpl
Charles P Harrison
Pearl Harbor
Harrison
Colorado
James R LeGrand
J O LeGrand
Army Air Forces
Jerry
Gene
United States
Renewal note from longtime Herald reader Mrs Humphreys
Mrs W W Humphreys writes she has read the Herald for more than 30 years and cannot get along without it. She runs the Ferrum Junior College book store in Ferrum Virginia and plans to stay until May 1946, noting she is a former resident of Morehouse.
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W W Humphreys
Herald
Humphrey
Ferrum Junior
College Ferrum Va
Shelis
Morehouse
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