News of Our Men in Uniform From Sikeston Area
Master Sergeant E M Moore of the Aviation Engineers Air Corps writes his parents in Sikeston that he is now in New Guinea. George A Russell of Bertrand, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania V 12 unit, earns Commanding Officer's List honors for the third time. Pfc Thomas I Harwin, son of Sikeston residents, serves as rifleman with the 338th Infantry in Italy, with the unit earning multiple DSCs and Silver Stars. Pvt Grover H Cox earns paratrooper wings after five jumps at Benning. The Puckett family reports Cpl Bynum Puckett in Aleutians hospital. Bill Puckett joins the U S Navy in Hawaii. Captain Charles Hellem serves with the 10th Air Force in India. Sidwell promoted to Captain in New Guinea. Shuppert and Adams family notes from training and command posts. Capt Paul Caldwell Caldwell, grandson of Sikeston residents, is confirmed killed in action November 20 in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. Moore
Aviation Engineers
Amy Air Corps
Nao
Lon F. Moore
Ew Guinea
George A. Russell
Bertrand
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
University of Pennsylvania
Russell
Sikeston
Navy
Thomas I. Harwin
Benjamin D. Harwin
Route 2
338Th
Italy
Gothic Line
Camp Shelby
Miss
Casablanca
French Morocco
North Africa
Soiacciano
Fifth Army
Gustav Line
Formia
Sperlonga
Mount Nero
Sezze
Cori
Rome
Grover H. Cox
Albert H. Cox
United States Army
Parachute School
Art Benning
A. R. Puckett
Cpl
Bynum Puckett
Medical Corps
U. S. Army
Station
Aleutian Islands
Bill Puckett
U. S. Navy
Hawaii
Bill Sidwell
Wm. M. Sidwell
New Guinea
Capt. Sidwell
South Pacific
W. S. Sidwell
Sikeston Notes on Local Military and Relatives
Lt Col Albert D Sheppard longtime Sikeston resident and former State Highway Patrol head returned from France with Lt Gen George S Patton Jr after illness and arthritis. Marian Martindale visiting relatives, Lewis Conley sent to England for further treatment after Paris hospital stay. Bronze Star sought for Cpl Andrew Cutrell in France. his wife and baby son live in Sikeston. Odis Bohannon passed exams at Jefferson Barracks awaiting duty. Season's greetings from Jack J Lair CCM with Sea Bees posted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert. D. Sheppard
Doniphan
Sikeston
State Highway Patrol
France
George S. Patton Jr
Sheppard
Capt
Evhere
Jefferson City
Ineut
Lewis Conley
Paris
England
London
Lieut. Conley
Odis Bohannon
Jefferson Barracks
Cutrell
Andrew Cutrell
Cpl Cutrell
Wounded Chaffee Soldier and Other WW2 Updates
Mrs. John Spradlin of Chaffee learned Pvt. John D. Spradlin was seriously wounded in action in France on November 26. He entered service May 1, trained at Camp Hood and Fort Meade, and had worked in Paducah hosiery mills. Capt. John Franklin Kohn, with a B 24 group in Italy, reported 168 missions and 9,064 tons dropped. Lieut. Vance Engram expects home for Christmas after losing a leg in France. James E. Franks of Sikeston pictured aboard a cutter after action in the Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Spradlin
Chaffee
John D. Spradlin
France
H. K. Spradlin
Fornfelt
Camp Hood
Texas
Fort Meade
Paducah
Spradlin
Gary
Louis Gosche
John Franklin Kohn
Ruth Street
Italy
Mediterranean
Africa
Foggia
Naples
Europe
Asia Minor
North Africa
Lieut
Engram
Vance Engram
James E. Franks
Sikeston
St. Louis Star-Times
Atlantic
Soldiers in wartime letters from Sikeston area
Reports from Sikeston and nearby towns recount multiple U S Army and Navy personnel in service. Pfc Carroll Owen receives treatment in a French hospital for trench feet and expects return to England. Pfc Ben Willburn visits on furlough from Frederick Maryland. Others, including Jimmy Rabb and Gene Rabb, travel between Granite City Illinois and Rhode Island. Several local men report for duty at Jefferson Barracks and Keasler Field, while John Wayne Moore and Herbert Moore return from North Africa and Great Lakes respectively. Pfc Emery L Schmerbauch earns the Silver Star for gallantry in Italy and is hospitalized at O'Reilly General, after aiding comrades during dangerous evacuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfc
Carroll Owen
BE. D. Owen
England
Jimmy Rabb
TMW 2
Quonset Point
R. I
Sikeston
Rabb
A. T. Rabb
Granite City
Ill
Rhode Island
Air Gene Rabp
Mateuje
Pacific War
Emery L Schmerbauch
Poplar Bluff
O'Reilly General Hospital
Springfield
Pre. Schmerbauch
Sikeston Marine Promoted to Private First Class
James S. Hodges Jr of Sikeston has been promoted to Private First Class while serving with U S Marines on Bougainville. A 19 year old muster roll clerk in the headquarters squadron of a Marine air group, he is the son of Mr and Mrs James Hodges of near Sikeston. He attended Sikeston High and enlisted January 22 after farming with his father. overseas since May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Hodges Jr
Sikeston
United States Marines
Bougainville
Pfc. Hodges
Marine Air Group
James 58. Hodges
Sikeston High School
Marines
E. L. Tongate Jr
BE. L. Tongate
Lieut
Tongate
4Th Marine
6Th Marine Division
Sikrestonian's Son Recovering From Injuries
Pfc. Robert Parker, son of Leek's Hardware proprietor C. L. Parker, is in a government hospital in Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana recovering from serious injuries in France. He holds the Purple Heart and Presidential Citation after service with Rangers and an infantry unit. His family in Vincennes and Sikeston remain hopeful as his brother and step-brother serve abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Parker
Leek
Pfc
Robert Parker
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Indiana
France
Parker
Rangers
Vincennes
Ind
Eldon Parker
Jim Wells
South Pacific
Distinguished flyer visits Morehouse in wartime tour
Capt. Charles Fatzinger, a Mitchell bomber pilot with the 12th Bombardment Group, visits his in laws at Morehouse after serving 15 months overseas. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters for 62 missions across Italy, the Balkans, India, Burma and China, including duties as flight leader and technical inspector. The family plans to reside in Santa Monica after the visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Fatzinger
Mediterranean
Far East
William Mathis
Morehouse
Air Force
12Th Bombardment Group
Italy
Balkans
India
Burma
China
Fatzinger
Montgomery
5Th Army
Sicily
Balkan States
CBI
A. Elizabeth
Santa Monica
Calif
Commerce News Highlights Local Travel and Death
Local residents report shopping and business trips in Cape Girardeau Benton and Commerce. Notable life event: Robert Gary Ross passed away at his son's home in Commerce after a long illness. Wingard McVey was wounded in Germany during service. Community notices include guests visiting, missing in action Marion Jacobs, and Connie Lou Johnson hosting a weekend gathering with friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Gaines
Cape Girardeau
W. W. Smith
W. A. English
Benton
Commerce
Eugene Granneman
St. Louis
M. F. Pell
Jackson
Miss
G. W. Marshall
Annie Bearslee
Morley
Paul Cannon
Sikeston
Edwin Hartz
Robert Gary Ross
Jim Ross
Myrtle Miller
Lawrence Vetters
James Edgeman
Edward Ellinger
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Guirardeau
Horace Clark
Fred Wise
Walter Wise
Clarence Brumley Dies After Car Truck Collision
Clarence Brumley a 39 year old farmer from this community died Monday night from injuries sustained in a collision between an automobile and a truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele
Clarence Brumley
Food packages moving to American prisoners in Germany
Maurice Pate, head of POW relief for the American Red Cross, said food packages are moving steadily to American prisoners of war in Germany and being delivered faithfully after arriving from Europe by Clipper. He noted a total of 701,678 Negroes are serving in the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Maurice Pate
American Red Cross
Europe
Clipper
State Department employment shows one third plus women
The report indicates that more than a third of persons engaged in administrative or professional work in the State Department are women, highlighting a notable gender balance at higher professional levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
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Pfe
Charles Hellem
Werscher Hellem
Herald
Santa Claus
Hellem
10Th Air Force
Bil Shnuppert
A. S
Great Lakes
Tilla Shuppert
Olon Hillehecck
Prom
L. B. Adams Jr
Adams
Gid Daniel
Lubbock
Joseph B. Lambert
Lambert
Kelly Field
San Antonio
DuRee Jones
Paul DuRee Caldwell
Capt. Caldwell
Ernest J. Caldwell
Col. Sheppard
Marian Martindale
Washington, D. C
R. M. Vann
Washington
Conney
Jack J. Lair
CCM
Seabees
Caleb Smith
Sikeston, Mo
E. Gilpin
Matthews, Mo
A. W. Homberger
Louisville, Ky
John Parker
Ben Willburn
Willburn
Frederick
Nelia, Willburn
Bennie Joe Morrison
Bert Moore
Paul Brewer Jr
Army Air Forces
Keasler Field
T. J. Moore
John Wayne Moore
New York
Herbert Moore
S 2c
Joe Matthews
Sic
Richard Carmody
Emily
Jack Matthews
Marine Hodges
Pacific
Sikrestonian
Gerald Bohannon
Fort Riley
Kansas
Jesse Bohannon
W. &. Bohannon
Near Mast Prairie
Olin Ham
Hayti
War Department
Pare
Thomas D. Ham
Pauline Ham
Commerce ‘News
Kansas City Life Insurance Company
Southeast Missouri
H. L. Harty Southeast Missouri Loan
Scott County Milling Building
Sikeston, Missouri
Powell Insurance Agency
Eston
Ballard
Snow Liniment
Agency
Center Street
Life — Farm Insurance
Missouri Discount Corporation
Keith Building
Missouri
C. E. Golladay
E. Malone
Scott County
ME Furniture Store
Insurance Agency
Front and
New Madrid
A. D. Clayton
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Dead Animal Disposal Company
Att Reet
IPA
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