Propwash from Sikeston cadets juvenile wartime letters
Cadets of the 2561st A A Base Unit Sikeston Mo provide a miscellany of wartime notes and jokes. The issue prints letters and remarks from former cadets now flying in the war, with a tease that current cadets will resume writing next week. A long letter from Elmer to his mom recounts a rough training flight and mishaps, ending with affection for his mother.
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Sikeston
Herald
Japan
Germany
My First Airplane Ride
A vivid, survivalist account of a first passenger flight with an instructor, detailing nerves, procedures, and the shifting thoughts of fear, duty, and awe as the plane lifts and climbs into the sky. The narrator muses on risk, training, and the paradox of bravery under pressure.
First Flight Ordeal Recounts Dizzy Descent And Joy
A novice learns flight maneuvers under an instructor during a taxing session that ends with a controlled glide and a rough but successful return to earth. The scene captures fear, courage, and the relief of surviving the first lesson.
Awakening to Morning Mirth and Mechanized Alarm Tales
An amused ode contrasts old and new wake up rituals from coffee aroma to civilian drills. It recalls a bygone reform center where mornings began with bells, bugles, and the dreaded uniform, then questions if modern sunlit coffee mornings are preferable to noise and steam.
Buy War Bonds Cadets Must Help Win The War
A rousing wartime appeal to cadets urging purchase of war bonds to fund bullets planes and uniforms. It recalls losses in Bataan and missions by P-40s and stresses sacrifice patience and national duty as essential investments for home and future.
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Japan
Rites Held Yesterday for Aged Morehouse Man
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Baptist church in Morehouse for J W Murphy who died Sunday of carcinoma. The Rev Parrott conducted the rites and burial followed in City Cemetery on Sikeston. Mr Murphy 82 was a Kentucky native and long employed as a carpenter by Hummelberger Harrison Manufacturing Co at Morehouse. Surviving are his widow Lulu Murphy and one brother Ed Murphy of Morehouse. A Mississippi River bend near Kentucky has added about 10 square miles of land to the state, reachable only through Mussoun or Tennessee.
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Mom
Chicago
Mr Link
Wilson
Link
Reynard
Mississippi River
Elmer
Mother Earth
Waward
Hell
Baptist Church
Morehouse
J W Murphy
Parrott of
Essex
Sikeston
Taylor
Murphy
Kentucky
Hummelberger - Harrison Manufacturing Co
Lulu Murphy
Ed Murphy
Mussoun
Tennessee
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New York
Cir
J L Watson
M Chet J.C Tuck
W. P Boardman
E W Culex
J C Carmichael G. W. Gruber
A.C Fuller
R. A Bessette
W R Fitzgerald
Harry Wamwnght
Lorts
White
Cissification
Kelly
cannon +urely
Sheston
Sven
Chip
E. Malone
Bataan
Shell Cafe
Highway 61
State Highway Building
Byrum Lucy
Hamburgers
Shell Products
Sikeston, MO
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