St Patrick’s Day Mass In Pacific Honors Makin Hero
Two veteran infantry regiments mark St Patrick’s Day on an emerald isle two years after Makin Invasion. The 165th Infantry hosts mass with the 105th present. Capt Brunet assists. Capt Meany leads a New York parade on leave. Lieut Col John G Conroy is posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for leading the 165th at Makin. Brig Gen Ogden J Ross attends with other 27th Division officers and Troy Navy trainees return home on leave.
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Pacific
Makin Atoll
St. Patrick’s Day
Emerald Isle
165Th Infantry
New York
105Th Infantry
Bishop Sweeney
Honolulu
Paul G. Brunet
105Th
Stephen Meany
165Th
Ogden J. Ross
Troy
Troy Man Walt Fisher Promoted in Ninth Army Air Force
Walt Fisher of Troy has been promoted to staff sergeant and assigned as a materiel clerk with a Thunderbolt fighter group in Great Britain. He is married to Patricia Fisher of 35 Eighth Street. parents are William and Mrs. Fisher of 860 River Street. The notice lists several other Troy-area servicemen in various branches and postings, including Roland Fisher, Paul Fisher, Warren Fisher, Don McChesney, Arthur Goyer, Arthur Macomber, Nels Nielsen, Arthur Jupin, Irving Jones, James Kelly, Dominick Buffaline, Joseph McDonough, Douglas Bolysen, Gerald Minehan, Leo Norton, Charles Francis, William Goard, Leland Carrier, Joseph Campese, Nicholas Campese, Edwin Cortrell, Alex Mattocks, James Mattocks, and local family mentions and furloughs.
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Troy
Ninth Army Air Force
Great Britain
Walt Fisher
Thunderbolt
Walt
Patricia Fisher
Eighth Street
William Fisher
River Street
Dannemora
Fisher
Armed Forces
Roland Fisher
Airborne Infantry
Paul Fisher
Army Air Forces
Warren Fisher
Marines
Don McChesney
Harold A. McChesney
Eleventh Street
South Pacific
Don
Record Newspapers
Troy Higrad
Arthur A. Goyer
Navy
Leon H. Goyer
Ferry Street
Arthur Macomber
Harry Macomber
113Th Street
Ontario Army Air Field
Ontario
Cal
Nels J. Nielsen
Memphis
Tenn
Arthur A. Jupin
Armored Division
Fort Benning
Ford Motor Co
Green Island
Pic
Dominick Buffaline
Ordnance Department
England
Anseline Buffaline
Sixth Avenue
Corporal Buffaline
H. M. McDonough
Fifth Avenue
Pvt
Joseph McDonough
Joe
LaSalle Institute
Troy Business College
Ftc
Douglas Bolysen
Harding Field
Baton Rouge
Jane Lee Bilgsen
Maple Avenue
Bomabadier
Gerald Minehan
Fulton Street
San Antonio Aviation Center
Texas
Leo F. Norton
Mary Norton
First Avenue
Watervliet
A. A. F. Command
Greensboro
N. C
Watervliet Arsenal
Sergeant Challenges Paper Waste In Air Field Office
Tech. Sgt. Edward H. Hoffman at Blackland Army Air Field in Waco Texas is scolded by Lt. Col. Robert L. Renth for wasting paper while generating hometown aviation cadet stories. Hoffman pledges to conserve but then mails a chain letter urging editors to reuse the story.
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Blackland Army Air Field
I Waco, Tex
INS
Edward H. Hoffman
Winnetka
Til
Acme Newspictures, Inc
Robert L. Renth
Germans Deny Tirpitz Damaged in Air Attack
German DNB News Agency broadcast from Berlin says Allied planes attacked the battleship Tirpitz at a northern Norwegian base but the assault was broken up by Nazi defenses and had no full effect. DNB claims the planes came from a convoy escort and that the Allies suffered considerable destroyer losses.
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London
DNB
Berlin
Tirpitz
Raymertown Communion Services at Lutheran Church
Raymertown will hold communion services at the Lutheran Church Haster Sunday at 9 45 a m Mrs Marcia Heger and daughter Florence of Troy spent the weekend with Mrs M C Snyder The Wo men s Missionary Society will meet at Mrs M C Snyder s home next Tuesday Mr and Mrs Louis LeLoup returned from winter visit with daughter Mrs Frank Cannon of Troy Alta Ford sold her home and farm to Floyd Fieffer of Rensselaer and will move into the Bornt property this month
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Lutheran Church
Haster
Marcia Heger
Florence
Troy
M. C. Snyder
Women's Missionary Society
Louis LeLoup
Frank Cannon
Alta Ford
Floyd Fieffer
Rensaclair
David Bornt
Soldiers Cry For Mail From Home
More than a million pounds of airmail travel through Pearl Harbor monthly via Naval Transport Service. The drive for letters from home comes from Admiral Halsey who said, You get us the mail and we ll do the fighting, as soldiers and sailors across the Pacific rely on letters to stay connected. V Mail is limited in the Pacific but many men still prefer airmail for personal notes, candy gifts, and a link to family, with eight day delivery from New Guinea to Chicago or New York as a hopeful norm.
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Honolulu
Sns
Pearl Harbor
Naval Transport Service
Hawaii
Australia
Admr
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Ben Edwards
NATS
Pacific
States
Munda
Pacifec
Atlantic
Navy
United States
New Guinea
Chicago
Cleveland
New York
Kiwanis Speaker N A Engler to Address Club
N A Engler public relations officer for the Smaller War Plants Corp will address Kiwanis Club at tomorrow's noon meeting. He will discuss the role of small manufacturers in the war effort and the postwar outlook. All area small manufacturers have been invited.
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Kiwanis Club
N. A. Engler
War Plants 'Corp
Engler
Soldier’s Sweetheart Sends Pin in Separate Letter
A young sailor, before joining the Gilbert Islands attack, was ordered to stop writing until after the battle. He later returned from Makin to find a tearful note from his sweetheart saying she was sending his fraternity pin in separate cover after his failure to reply.
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Gilbert Islands
Makin
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Monroe Street
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Jack Kennedy
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Vine Avenue
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Second Street
August Schupp
First Street
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Western Electric Co
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Old Troy Times
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N.C
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John M. Francis
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Associated Press
Prairfe
Army Public Relations Office
Troy Times
Carrie Goard
Cleminshaw P Avenue
William Goard
Corps
Leland Carrier
Joseph Campese
Parris Island
Frank Campese
Haverman's Avenue
Norfolk
CORP
Nicholas Campese
Army Air Corps
Sons of the American Legion Squadron
Bugle and
Drum Corps
Edwin R. Cortrell
Joseph W. Cottrell
R. D. 4, Troy
Camry Lee
Alex Mattocks
Camp Howze
Martha Mattocks
Fifth Street
Watervijet
Alex
Waterviiet High School
James Mattocks
Callaghan
Seventh Avenue
Camp Forrest
Cambridge
Walter Francisco
Buckley
Joseph Rogers
Martin Rogers
U. S. Navy
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WACS
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Fort Devens
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