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Local Servicemen Earn Promotions and Awards
Soldiers from Pelham Thomas E. Bivens Willie L. Buchanan and Dutch Wilkes headline Army recognitions. Pvt Larry E. Alday and others complete training at Fort Gordon Fort Belvoir Fort Dix Fort Gordon and Great Lakes. Navy and Marine personnel from Thomasville and nearby towns graduate recruit training and prepare for assignments in Korea San Diego Parris Island and Little Creek.
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Navy
Thomas E. Bivens
Army
Pearl Bivens
Pelham
Department of Army
Fort Belvoir
Virginia
Mattie Buchanan
Dowdell St
Sixth Army Entertainment
San
Fort Dix
N. J
Dutch A “Wilkes
E. Wilkes
Colton .Ave
Southeastern Signal School
Fort Gordon
Larry E. Alday
Craw‘fom@Alday
Donalsonville
Felton
Whitehead
Boston
I Corps
Korea
Eames
Clayton C. Hurst
Deblochinee
Roose‘vel Diggs
Ada J. Hurst
Ac‘academy
Diggs
Everlina Delaney
Thomasville
Mire
F. W. Baggett
College St
Fort Benning
Pvt
Plummer J. Saunders Jr
Metcalf
Fort Bliss
Couble
W. C. Tucker
Route 1
Naval Amphibious Base
Little Creek
Jonathan R. Gaddis
J. M. Gaddis
Quitman
8Th Infantry Division
Fort Carson
Colorado
Clarence E. Hall
Juanita Browning
Bainbridge
Germany
Donald K. Hendrix
Para
Meuse-Argonne American Military Cemetery
France
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Nevaida Thomas
Julius H. Thomas
Dixie
U. S. Army Hospital
U. S
Donald 5
Ladson
G. W. Lad
Luther J. Lewis Jr
Seaman
USN
Luuther J. Lewis
Ochlochnee
San Diego
California
Western Pacific
Donald A. Harris
Charles Q. Harris