Thanksgiving meals and service news from Troy area troops
Letters from mothers highlight Uncle Sam feeding sons and daughters in the 105th Thanksgiving. Several Troy area servicemen are named with hometowns and postings from North Africa Italy Sicily and Pacific theaters. Promotions, flights, paratrooper wings and ASTP graduates are reported, along with home leaves and family connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Corp
Ted Barnhart
Ted
Petersburg
105Th
Troy
Herman Barnhart
Makin
Local Service Members Reach New Posts and Training
Sliter earns good conduct medal in Midland Texas. Kerry arrives at Fort Bragg to begin Field Artillery training. Nikles arrives in England after starting service in January. Draffin home from Lakehurst for weekend passes. Mark arrives in England after Camp Ellis training. Kokologias promoted to Tec omrade with New York Air Defense Wing. Demers completes flexible aerial gunnery course at Laredo. Bouchey completes instrument course at Chanute Field. Tyrrell, in Africa with a nursing unit, hopes letters from friends arrive. Church writes that Tom has gone elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yeat
Camp Lejeune
New River
N. C
Charley Safaras
Sophie Safaras
Third Street
Seymour Johnson Field
Charley
Army Air Corps Technical Training Command
Bob Rodgers
Lakehurst
N. J
Bob
Oakwood Avenue
Tom Caepenter
ASTP
University of Indiana
ED Hogan
Margaret Gillies
Patrick Hogan
Fort McClellan
Ala
United Press . Corp
Jim Quinn
Sicily
Salerno
Haly
Jim
Mulhall
Troy
Frank Murray
Italy
Harold Johnson
John Martin
Africa
Betty Flanders
J. Gaffney
George Street
Green Island
Hunter College
Yeoman School
Stillwater
Oklo
Betty
Nott Terrace
Behr- Manning’s
Navy
Joe Dalton
Michael J Dalton
Greenwood Avenue
Mechanicvile
Army Air Field
Tucson
Ariz
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co
Mechanicville Hi
Siena
George Draffin
Charley Mark
England
Camp Elis
Margaret Mark
115Th Street
Gurley’s
Pele Kokolias
109Th Street
Signet
New York
Sergi
Tom Church
Miss Marion Church
Second Street
Sergeant Meyer Wins Legion of Merit for Tunisian Campaign
Staff Sergeant Charles W. H. Meyer Jr. of Watertown and formerly of Troy receives the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the Tunisian campaign between February and April 1943. The citation notes his leadership under fire and his role in installing vital communications lines. Meyer, in the Regular Army ten years, is the son of Charles Meyer Jr. and the late Lansingburg High School graduate. his family resides in Watertown. He mentions adjusting to war news and asks to renew The Times Record subscription as he passes it on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. H. Meyer, Jr
Watertown
Troy
War Department
Meyer
Regular Army
Charles Meyer
Second Avenue
Lansingburg High School
Court Street
Georgia Wife Held For Shooting Girl In Romney Case
Mrs Lennis Britt was jailed after police say she kidnapped and shot 18 year old Ruby Sheppard of Rhine while accusing her of seeing her husband. Sheppard received a chest wound and was hospitalized. Deputy Holt reported the girl was taken from school and held in Britt's truck for hours before the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Hastman
Lennis Britt
Ruby Sheppard
Rhine
Jeff Holt
Miss Sheppard
Bossy Gillis Loses Bid in Newburyport Mayoral Race
Ex mayor Andrew J. Gillis suffers his largest defeat in nine campaigns, polling 1,624 votes to John M. Kelleher’s 3,403. Resulting victory raises Kelleher’s annual mayoral salary to 2,500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport
Mass
Andrew J. “Bossy” Gillis
John M. Kelleher
Kelleher
Carter's Little Liver Pills Health Quiz Ad
An old advertising blurb promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills claiming to restore bile flow and ease headaches irritability and depression. It asserts poor digestion from blocked bile leads to constipation and a melancholy outlook and urges readers to buy the pills, priced 10 and 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
FASTEETH Promises Secure Dentures For All Day Comfort
An advertisement promotes FASTEETH as a powder that stabilizes dentures so wearers can eat, talk, laugh, and sneeze without worrying about dropping slipping or wobbling. It claims a firm hold, no gummy taste, alkaline non acid formula, and can reduce denture breath. Available at drug stores.
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Roy Shudt
Pfe
Mary McCarthy
Edward J. McCarthy
152
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Quantico, Mary’s
CCHS
Cluett, Peabody’s
Phc
Gene Oluszczak
Third St
North Africa
Gene
Joe Potts
Parris Island
8. C
Leland Derrick
Francis Winters
Lawrence Church
Angelo Colarusso
Charley Bulson
Joe
Boyntonville
Montgomery Ward
Charley Osuchowski
Fort Screven
Pfc
John Korin
Yank
Stars and Stripes
Bill Monahan
Thomas M. Monahan
Seventh Avenue
Jean Lott and Son
Norfolk
Bill
Atlantic
Tom “Tucker” Monahan
Air Corps
Plewty
Bill Jones
Joseph L. Jones
Fifth Avenue
Dick Deratzian
Persia
Troy Area
Bill Mulligan
Australia
Pacific Area
Leland Bellingham
Reda Bellingham
RK. A. Bellingham
118Th Street
Fort Benning
Pvt
Bell Wagar
Harry H. Wagar
Cropsesville
George Bates
John C. Bates
Ninth Street
Tom Blair
Thomas S. Blair
Northern Drive
Cohoesters
Benning
Sergi Art Wahner
Hyman Levy
Center View Drive
Orp
Jimmy Arnold
Pacific Coast
Christie Street
Jims
Mike McCormick, Jr
Mary
Sixth Avenue
Ludium Steel
Pie Joe Melincher
Camp Bowie
Texon
Mike Sewchuk
Pacific
Mike
V L
Albany
Watershot
Sampson Sueports
Leo Ritrovato
Johnsonville
John Daley
Bill Ghellrich
Bill Clark
Elm Place
Tech
Fort Mason
Cal
Leonard Clark
Army
Don Harbat
Fort Bragg
Field Artillery
Clase
George Michon
Waterford
Willard
Drakes Pharmacy
Averill Pars
Park’s Pharmacy
Denby's—Sports Shop
Phives
Ata
Denby‘s—Sports Shop
Sergt. Meyer
Peace
Stars
Stripes
Times
George McManus
Watervlet
SEROT
Whoever
Gillis
Empire
Fempire
War Food Administration
Impire
Empire Super Markets
Second
Hoosick ST
Fifth Ave
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