Battered Plane Home Safely After Fierce German Attack
The Fortress Eight Ball sustained severe damage over Germany as MB-109s attacked. Pilot Second Lieut George J Williamson of Columbus Ohio battled to return home with ten crew aboard including Staff Sgt Donald Degan and Staff Sgt George T Kruithoff. A 20 mm shell ignited incendiaries in the radio room. Firefighters Stogsdill Alvanos and Honcik aided by blankets and stamping out flames saved the craft and crew amid smoke and burning gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Germany
George J. Williamson
Columbus, O
Donald Degan
Washington, D. C
George T. Kruithoff
Grand Rapids
Mich
Alvanos
Walter J. Honcik
Omaha
Neb
Otis L. Stogsdill
Cerro Cordo
Williamson
Curtis E. Meinelt
New Durham
N. H
RWG
Roy E. Ness
Edmore
N. D
Ralph D. McKown
Leland, Miss
William J. Campbell
Philadelphia
Navy Vision Aid Exercises Attract Attention In Recruiting
Chief Gunner's Mate Joseph Sullivan at the local Navy recruiting station has developed eye exercises for applicants with vision below standard. The program has yielded excellent results, allowing several men previously rejected to later qualify. Newport Recruiting Station in Rhode Island requested details from Sullivan. A Troy Area man, Karl F. Smith, wrote noting carrots and Vitamin B may aid vision, as used with success at Newport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Joseph Sullivan
Sullivan
Newport
R. 1
Troy Area
Rhode Island
Karl F. Smith
Shushan
Fort Edward appoints village officials
Mayor Frank P. Lyden announced appointments for two to three year terms. Fred J. Betts becomes clerk with Walter L. Bibey as deputy clerk. Anna Y. Sheehan is treasurer. James Young and John Murphy named assessors. Samuel Newton also named sessor. Michael J. Hanley is police chief. Robert W. Bascomb named village attorney but granted leave. Judge Wyman S. Bascom to act as attorney for one year. William J. Wetherbee appointed recreation commissioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank P. Lyden
Fort Edward
Fred J. Betts
Walter L. Bibbey
Anna Y. Sheehan
James 8. Young
Samuel Newton
John Murphy
Michael J. Hanley
Robert W. Bascomb
Mr. Bascomb
Wyman S. Bascom
William J. Wetherbee
Family Leaves for Texas Ship Launching
Mr and Mrs George E Davis of Brunswick Road have left for Orange Texas where a destroyer escort vessel named for their son the late Lieut George E Davis Jr will be launched within days Lieutenant Davis was killed in action in January 1942 with the Asiatic Fleet His wife christens the ship formerly Miss Jane Hine daughter of Capt W J Hine of the Navy Victory Gardens supplied nearly half the nation s vegetables in 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Davis
Brunswick Road
Orange
Tex
George E. Davis, Jr
Davis
Asiatic Fleet
Jane Hine
W. J. Hine
Navy
Deaths and funerals fill Troy area obituaries
An area run of obituaries lists Mrs. Nettie H. Cronin widow of Charles P. Cronin who died at Leonard Hospital after a shore fIness and is survived by her two sons John H. Cronin and Charles J. Cronin and a daughter Mrs. Walter E. Healey with services at Walter E. Healey Funeral Chapel and St. Peter's Church followed by interment in St. John's Cemetery Schaghticoke. Others include Mrs. Mary McCarthy Kavanaugh, widow of Thomas L. Kavanaugh, with services at Cummings Funeral Home and St. Bridget's Church. Frank J. Harrington's funeral at Looby and Son and St. Peter's Church. Marie Marbot's burial at Elmwood Hill Cemetery. Miss Estelle Brewster of Schaghticoke with burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Mrs. Ada Chaloux Rogers of Watervliet with funeral services and interment in Albany Rural Cemetery. William G. Hurley, Troy native and Syracuse official, funeral at St. Lucy's Church. Harriet H. Gillespie's service at St. Augustine's Church. Mrs. Anna B. Spencer of Saratoga Springs with private funeral. and Joseph Moore Price mourned with services at Church of the Holy Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie H. Cronin
Charles P. Cronin
the Leonard Hospital
Valley Fells
Troy
St. Peter’s Church
John H. Cronin
Watervliet
Charles J. Cronin
Walter E. Healey
Edward Cronin
U. S. Marine Corps
Marjorie
Helene
John Cronin
Mary Diane
James
Joan Annette
Sandra Co. Cronin
Fourth Street
St. Peter's Church
St. John's Cemetery
Schaghticoke
Mary Kavanaugh
Mary McCarthy Kavanaugh
Thomas L. Kavanaugh
Troy Hospital
Hudson
Helen Sharp
Delmar
Cummings
Third Avenue
Waterviiet
Mr. Harrington
Frank J. Harrington
John F. Looby and Son
Remsen
Howard Streets
Cohoes
Michael F. English
Leo McCarthy
James J. Cunningham
Wiliam
Fred Curtin
Frank Butler
Robert E. McAuli
Leo Albert
Joseph B. Tucker
Thomas J. Larkin
John A
Richard Lemke
Herbert P. Hurd
Elmwood Hill Cemetery
Veith
Misa Estelle Brewster
Estelle Brewster
Harold Brewster
Elnora
Anna Kniskern
Cobleskill
George Lerewster
A. F. Perry
Stillwater
Elmwood Cemetery
Ada C. Rogers
Ada Chaloux Rogers
Fifth Avenue
Aingering Ilness
Canada
Bellevue Chapel
Schenectady
Emily B
Gene L Rogers
John Chaloux
Barbara B. Cha
William G. Hurley
Highth
Syracuse
Public Works Administration of
George and
Johannah Gleason Hurley
Agnes Hurley
Mary Hurley
Bridgeport
William A. Toohey
114Th Street
Second Avenue
St. Augustine's Church
Thomas J. Kelly
C. S. A. Emile Catricala
Panis Angelicus
Bert C. Cropsey
Hugh A. McGowan
Felixs. McManamon
Joseph P. Warmt
Patrick J. Danson
Anna B. Spencer
Saratoga Springs
Bethesda Church
Saratoga
O. BE
Howard Wilber
W. Ernest Spencer
John E. Spencer
Greenridge Cemetery
Dr Longley Retired Bishop Dies in West Virginia
Rt. Rev. Harry Sherman Longley 75 of Davenport Iowa former Episcopal Bishop of Iowa died after brief illness in a Charleston West Virginia hospital. He served as bishop from 1929 to his retirement November first and is survived by his wife and son Rev. Harry S. Longley Jr. Funeral in Charlestown with interment in Troy. Milwaukee war output saves thousands of hours through 1,800 employee suggestions.
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Harry Sherman Longley
Davenport
Cohoes
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Troy
Charleston
W. Va
Iowa
Longley
Harry S. Longley
St John’s Episcopal Church
There
Bard College
Columbia University
General Theological Seminary
Milford
Mass
Trinity Church
Christ Church
Binghamton
St. Mary's Parish
Evanston
Hil
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
Grinnell College
St Monica's
Des Moines
New York State Grand Lodge
Charlestown
St. John's Church
Frank McEwain
Minnesota
Funeral services for Wellington S Thilo at Halfmoon Baptist Church
Wellington S Thilo died of a heart attack at his Halfmoon home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Halfmoon Baptist Church with Rev. Frederick F Foshay officiating. Interment will be in Crescent Cemetery. Everett Wilson interment wag in Elmwood Hill Cemetery Wellington S Thilo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Wilson
Elmwood Hill
Wellington S. Thilo
Halfmoon
Halfmoon Baptist Church
Frederick F. Foshay
Crescent Cemetery
Trojan Post Admits Three New Members At Meeting
Three new members joined Trojan Post Veterans of Foreign Wars at a meeting held Tuesday at 1 Glen Avenue. The inductees are William F. Cody Navy Pacific veteran, William H. Hoff man World War I Army veteran, and Frances E. LaFlash Army veteran World War II Africa. Plans for the next district council in Whitehall on March 19 were reviewed, with the following April 16 session at Harmony Hall. William McCracken to become commander, succeeding John DeLapp, who chairs the installation committee.
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Trojan Post
Glen Avenue
William F. Cody
Navy
Pacific
William H. Hoffman
Germany
France
Frances E. LaFlash
Africa
District Council
Whitehall
Leo F. Blume
Harmony Hall
William McCracken
John DeLapp
DeLapp
Charles Hansen
George W. McCune
Harry Fleming
The
Court Probate Files Will of John Bazar Wil
The will of John Bazar who died Jan 2 in this city was admitted to probate by Judge Edward J. Donohue in Rensselaer County Surrogate's Court. Estate listed as 5000 real and 32000 personal. Tesse Chopcian granted life interest in real property. Two sons Thomas and Peter and daughter Olga each receive one quarter of residue. sons receive 30 each, daughter 50. Julia Flaherty, daughter, gets real estate after Tesse Chopcian’s death and one quarter of residue. Attorney Joseph E. Walsh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bazar
Edward J. Donohue
Rensselaer County
Tesse Chapeian
North Greenbush
Thomas Bazar
First Street
Peter Bazar
Olga Bazar
Julia Flaherty
Troy
Tesse Chopcian
Joseph E. Walsh
Allies Repel Nazi Attack Above Cassino
Allied Fifth Army units beat off a German counter-attack on positions above Cassino as heavy artillery pounded rear areas. Italian troops held ground on Mount Merone where a German probe failed, while Cassino’s interior remained stalemated and artillery exchanges intensified on the Anzio front.
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Allied
Fifth Army
Cassino
Italy
Anzio
Ston
Mount Merrone
Allied forces shell German positions on multiple fronts
In persistent clashes a hospital area on the beachhead was hit by two German shells, causing one fatality and a fire. Along the Garigliano Valley Allied gunners pressed a heavy bombardment on San Andrea and Santa Ambrogio while skirmishing persisted on the Eighth Army front near the Adriatic. Allied medium bombers hit a German dump at Orte and air forces attacked gun positions, roads, bivouacs, and shipping off the Jugoslav coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quickl A .O
Garigliano
Cassino
Fifth Army
San Andrea
Santa Ambrogio
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Orte
Rome
Jugoslav
Scrap Iron Annie Runs Junk Firm and Bakes Pies
Cleveland widow Mrs. Ann Blumenthal known as Scrap Iron Annie runs a junk business and makes lemon meringue pies. She took over her husband’s firm at his death six days before Pearl Harbor, earning local fame as a whiz in pies and business.
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Scrap Iron Annie
Cleveland
Ann Bluementhal
Blumenthal
Pearl Harbor
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Farhiye
Mr. Price
Joseph Moore Price
Fred J. Lowe
Clarence W. Jones
Church of the Holy Cross
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Frank E. Jenkins
Ernest I. Claiborne
William M. Gibson
H. Ross Kemp
Jas
Peercrest Furs
Dr. Longley
Milwaukee
RED Cross War Fund
Broadway
Peerless
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Pappy
J. Y. Byers
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