Military families and personnel in wartime service
The report lists servicemen and women connected to Sikeston and nearby areas. Billy Yoth transfers to Laredo Texas for gunnery training after Ardmore. Elmer Jo Myers serves aboard a heavy cruiser off Okinawa. Thomas H Grady is wounded in action in the Asiatic area. Lora Shirk completes basic training at Camp Swift Texas and heads to Borden General Hospital. Pvt W A Mills visits with Gilbert Mills in Germany, both in the ordinance division and tank corps. Pvt Layman Givens, Moody Field, and Bill Snuppert visit family in Sikeston. George Johnson sails for Little Rock for further duty. Mamie Johnson’s visit to Middletown noted. Sgt William Barney George to Denver hospital after Saarluten combat. oak leaf cluster and Purple Heart. Wm H Paylor enrolled in Army Air Forces Training Command for radio training at Truax Field Madison Wis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lora Shirk
Army Nurse Corps
Lora McDonald
Sikeston
Camp Swift Texas
Borden General Hospital
Chickasha
Oklo
William
Barney) George
Wil
Denver
George
Saarleutern
Germany
26Th Division
Wm H Paylor
Clyde Paylor
Army
UN Forces Training Command
Truax Field
Madison
Wis
Young Paylor
Sgt Wn Hahs Visits With Family Before Base Move
Sgt Wn Hahs spent the past week in town with his wife and his parents Mr and Mrs J Otto Hahs. They plan to depart Monday morning for his base at Greenville South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wn. Hahs
Mis J Otto Hahs
Greenville SC
Sikeston Youth Receives Bronze Star for Ruhr Pocket Action
Harold D Williams son of Virgil D Williams of 722 Kathleen Street is awarded the Bronze Star for bravery in action in the Ruhr Pocket campaign. He wears the ETO ribbon and is stationed at Turemich near Cologne, Germany, overseas since last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pie Harold D Williams
Virgil D Williams
Kathleen Street
Ruhr
Pie Williams
Turemich
Cologne
Germany
Air Medal Awarded to Flight Officer Paul C Schaeffer
Flight Officer Paul C Schaeffer of the Air Transport Command Base in India received the Air Medal for 150 hours of operational flying over hazardous India China routes. The citation covers December 3, 1944, to January 25, 1945, noting night and day flight through treacherous terrain and high altitude instruments. Frank R Bolden, a Navy machinist mate third class, returns to duty after a Pacific revival, describing a recreation stop on a tiny atoll with local huts and shell collecting. Leut Bill Tinder and brothers Tinder serve in Army Air Corps and US Navy/Jag, with one Tinder in the tank corps at Fort Riley, Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul C Schaeffer
Air Transport Command
India
Big
Win H Turner
Schaeffer
India-China
Himalaya
China
F-O
Frank R Bolden
Carrie
Bolden
Leut
Bill Tinlet
Tnder
Army
V1 Corps
Man Tinder
US Navy
South
Pacifi
Pyt Dale
Tank Corps
Lort Rule
Kansas
Val Sharp Involved In Pacific War Hospital Construction
Val Sharp formerly tied to H G Sharp and the local auto business, now with Uncle S7in, helped build Mandaluyong Hospital near Manila. Army engineers call it the Pacific theater’s largest military project, a 8,000 bed facility that will grow to 8,600 beds, covering 1300 acres with 840 buildings and its own airstrip and utilities. The project, funded to finish by August, employs over 2000 Filipino and Japanese workers and includes an APO address, teletype, and in-house power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Val Sharp
H G Sharp
S7in
Islands
Army Engineers
Free Philppines
Mandalyong Hospital
Manila
Hugh Casey
866Th Engineers Aviation Battalion
Engineers Asiatic 1 Battalion
Oran War Prisoner Returns Home From German Camp
Sgt Robert L Cerr, son of Mr and Mrs A Carr of Oran, is home after being a prisoner from March 28 for 95 days. He was in the Ninth Army under General Simpson and was evacuated to England on a C 17 plane. He lost 55 pounds and needed a stretcher before arriving at an army hospital in England. He credits prayers of family and friends for his survival and safe return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L Cerr
A . Carr
Oran
Ninth Army
General Simpson
Wan
Limburg
Germany
England
Cari
Methodist Church
Warfront Medical Triage Amid Siege and Bombing
More than 300 cases daily in early fighting reduced to about 100 as the weary sick call drops. During two weeks under continual artillery fire, shells exploded near work sites. Construction crews faced danger as empty pillboxes, ammo dumps, and hidden bombs were cleared and destroyed by explosive teams.
WOUNDED EVACUATION UPDATE FROM OKINAWA LETTER
Lieut Ker mit Woods recounts serving on Okinawa and the Philippines, detailing 34 wounded picked up and flown to a distant hospital within ten hours. He mentions a stint in Homestead Florida for transport school and hopes to visit Ardmore later. Pfe Charlie Dobin, son of James C Durbin, was wounded on Okinawa May 5. Pfc Durbin has served since July 1 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JF Cox
Kermit Woods
Kerry Command
Cox
Hie
Mans Silkeeston
Pacific
Okinawa
Philippines
Guam
Okina
Homestead
Fla
Army
Lee
Ardmore
Lee Austin Bowman
Coxs
Pfe
Charlie Dobin
James C Durbin
St Louis
Pfc
Durbin
Poplar Bluff Man Named Typical GI Father at Camp Carson
Pie Henry V Armes of Poplar Bluff has been chosen as the typical GI father among 1,600 dads at Camp Carson hospital in Colorado. Armes, who ran a produce business in Poplar Bluff before joining the army, is married with children Jesse Leroy Jerry Mary Ann Norma Jean and Shirley Jo aged under one to eight. He served as a scout with the 95th Division in northern France and fought in Metz and Saarlautern Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pie Henry V Armes
Poplar Bluff
Camp
Carson Hospital
Colorado
Pie Armes
Jesse Leroy
Jerry
Mary Ann
Norma Jean
Shirley Jo
Armes
95Th
France
Metz
Sarlautern
Germany
Distinguished Flying Cross for Sgt Hancock Jr
Mrs Ansell H Hancock, formerly Carrie Nell Bray, reports her husband Sgt Ansell H Hancock Jr has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The citation was received June 1, and he also earned the Air Medal on March 18 for meritorious achievement in perilous liaison flights in Italy, performing 35 sorties from Oct 10 1944 to Feb 1 1945. Mrs Hancock lives here with her mother, Mrs F E Mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ansell H Hancock
Carrie Nell Bray
Hancock TiSgt Hancock
Lake Garda
Italy
Former pastor discusses life in Germany from war zone
Rev E W Milner, former Sikeston Baptist Church pastor, now a U S Army chaplain captain, writes to the Sikeston Kiwanis Club about his duties with the 64th Field Hospital of the 15th Army near Cologne. He notes Rhine Valley war damage, blasted cities like Cologne and Aachen, and Germans returning amid ruins, hoping for an early return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E W Milner
Sikeston Baptist Church
Germany
Chaplain’s Corps
United States Army
Sikeston Kiwanis Club
64Th Field Hospital
15Th Army
Cologne
Rhine
Aachen
States
Marine awards grim bounty on Japs from Peleliu to Okinawa
The report highlights Marine Cpl Edward P Walton of St Louis who on Peleliu felled two Japanese soldiers with two rifle shots and on Okinawa destroyed a three man machine gun nest with a single hand grenade. A quip notes his average expenditure of 168 cents per Jap, reflecting wartime humor about battlefield kills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward P
Scotty) Walton
St Lows
Peleliu
Okinawa
Mrs Willard McDaniel Receives German Letter From Husband
This week Mrs Willard McDaniel received a letter from her husband Cpl McDaniel stating that she is now in Germany where he is serving with the Third Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard McDaniel
Cpl McDaniel
Germany
Third Army
Pvt Odis Bohannon Returns to Camp Maxey Texas Post
Pvt Odis Bohannon resumes duties at Camp Maxey Texas after a ten day visit with his parents Mr and Mrs Jesse Bohannon. William Wesley Hendley Jr son of Mr and Mrs W W Hendley departed for Jefferson Barracks Tuesday night to begin induction into the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odis Bohannon
Camp Maxey
Texas
Jesse Bohannon
William Wesley Hendley Jr
W W Hendley
Jefferson Barracks
Armed Forces
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Billy Yoth
Army Air Forces
Ohio
Laredo
Elmer Jo Myers Treman
United States
Maggie Lee Grady
Navy Department
Washington
Thomas H Grady
United States Naval Reserve
Asiatic
A V Mulls
Vanduser
Pvt
W A Mills
Gilbert Mills
Ordinance Division
Layman Givens
Law Givens
Moody Field
Bill Snuppert
Navy
Memphis
Ella Shuppert
Mangium
George Johnson
Lattle Rock Ark
Owen Johnson
James Johnson
Brown Spur
Johnson
Mamie Johnson
Middletown
Ill
CE Public Finan
H and H
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Ision
Rapape
Oran Service Man Jiome
Lrom
Sikeston Fruit and
Clay A. Mitchell
Wood
Sgt
Ansell H. Hancock Jr
Mrs Hancock
F E Mount
Roberts
Roge
Sacees
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