Three Young Men Enlist From Local High School
Three local youths, spry and ambitious, joined the armed services in December 1949. Cpl. Sprague drove a Jeep during service, with their families listing Mr and Mrs Hanson of 349 Wickles Street among those connected to the enlistment. All three are graduates of Elgita High School.
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Fred Brtishaw
Hanon
Col
Sidney
Sprague
Hottie Town
Fe Senha
Hahsoh
Mr. and
Ales
Oe Hanson
Wickles
Cpl
Spragie
Sofi
Mra
Doris Sprague
Elgtia
Comedians Safe After Emergency Plane Landing Near Laurieton
Hope and tour members aboard a plane forced to land on a sand bank near Laurieton Australia after engine trouble. The troupe led by Bow Hope reportedly escaped injury and planned to rest in Brisbane then test in Sydney before flying to New Guinea. The voyage may resume tonight with the performers Frances Colona Patty Thorhas and Tony Romana aboard. Small savings deposits in Beital totaled 918,863,000.
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Sydney
Australia
Lau Helo
Hopé
United Brass
Peacock Dinner At Kamaung Officers Club Report
A wartime field report from Li Col Thompson in Kamaing details a peacock feast for officers after Japanese forces left the town. Maj George Campbell shot the bird using aGL shot, with locals and staff describing the meal, the setting, and the improvised dressing of canned pork sausage, dehydrated onions, hardtack, and water.
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Kamaing
Barnes
Steathy Mogaung
Ganeral Shétinahi
Astoria
Oreat
Li Col
Thompson
Parisburg
W. Va
Maj
George Campbell
Sireet
Pasadena
Calif
Kamaung Officers’ Club
Campbell
Edwin Perne
Albany
Minns
Paul Boyer
Ashland
Franklin Holmes
Roskville
Watt
Robert Hantman
San Diego
Call
Kaimaing
Cooka
John Curtin
Australia
War era notices from Elyria and nearby towns
A batch of wartime social and service updates lists inductions, promotions, overseas service, and new addresses for residents and relatives. Names include Richard Vayda, Donald McMullen, William Austin, E J Novak, Frank Pasadyn, Earl Faulhaber, Carlton Sayers, Allen Sehlmeyer, Harold Brucker, and Vietzen, with units and locations such as Philadelphia Navy Yard, Camp Atterbury, Bougainville, New Georgia, and the 37th Infantry Division.
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37Th Infantry
Southwest Pacific
Earl C. Faulhaber
Monroeville
Pfe
Carlton Sayers
Elyria
Ohio
37Th
New Georgia
Bansainville
Bougainville
Elyrian Is Awarded Second Oak Leaf Cluster at Station
John R. Sigsworth, son of Mr and Mrs John Sigsworth, Elyria Ohio, received a second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for exceptionally meritorious achievement while serving with the Eighth Air Force in continental Europe. The citation praised courage coolness and skill reflecting credit on himself and the U S Armed Forces. Lillasworth, co pilot of a Flying Fortress, trained in Texas Arkansas Kansas and Oklahoma, graduated from high school in North Ridgeville Ohio and attended Fenn College Cleveland. Fire on Abbe Road burns over an acre of vacant property. grass ignition traced to a bonfire as firefighters work over an hour to extinguish the blaze.
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United States
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Winett
Beitalon
Howe
Florencs Court
Furnace Street
Cash and Carrylake Avenue
Creasing
Cleveland Street
Lorain County
THE
Lorain County Savings & Trust CO
Amherst
Cowmin County Sd
Lak Gest Ees
Mars Fsdemg
Sizanil Ag
Uncle Sam
Desapaliy Mapataione Linnta
Husserl
Baldwalhy Avenue
Wussell
Cathy McCain
Richard Raymond Vayde
Jani
Prank Vayda
Northrup Street
Navy
Cleveland
Andy Varga
Blake Street
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Andy Vargo
U.S. N
Die Vision Foundry
Catil
Donald McMmullen
327 Lake Avenue
Pvt
Donald C. McMullen
Fort Benjamin Harrison
William Austin
Lille Ford
24Th Street
Detroit
Camp Atterbury
Tnd
Evelyn Copas
Emp Street
E. J. Novak
Seaman Novak
Carl Pasadyn
Grafton
Frank Pasadyn
England
Faulhaber Company
Ihe
Séegaant
Sine
Sapafiees
Iritds
New Zealand
FIA
Falande
Gaudale Cabal
Faulhaber
Ville
Elyria High School
Sayers
George Sayers
Gratton
Carlton F. Savers
War Department
Allen Be, Sehlmeyer
A. J. Sehlmeyer
Parmely Avenue
Elgeth
Army Air Forces
Laredo Army Air Field
Laredo
Texas
AAF Training Command
Ber
Miami Beach
Fli
Harold B. Brucker
Lotaid
Brucker
Harry Bruckers
Pyt
Albertec
Vietzen
USS
Marine Corps
Air Training Battalion
Int
Training Command
Camp Pendleton
Ocean Side
Washington
Navy Department
Navy Bureau of Personnel
Ebert
Broad Street
Ficere Faland
Diamhond-Baete
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Preston White
Wales
Spatial
Pttes Mare
Murbach Coal & Supply Co
Bridge St
Nik
GULF
Gulflex
Office of Defense Transportation
American Petroleum Institute
Gulfpride
Gulflube
Gesoline
America
Gulf’ Protective Maintenance
Brekdanes
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