Tail Gunner Baugh Faces Deaths on 23 Missions Over Fortress
John Lee profiles Columbus Georgia native Deddy Baugh, tail gunner aboard a Fortress at Fortress Station England. From 23 missions over Hitler’s empire, including Munster Bremer Ludwigshaven and Regensburg, he speaks softly of duty and family. He volunteered after hosiery work, joined Army in 1942, and arrived in the ETO in 1943. He endured shredded planes and engine trouble while defending neighbors nationwide.
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John Lee
England
Ins
Roberts Baugh
Columbus
Bimbe
Hitler
Bie
Diddy Baugh
Jnst
Golumbus
Baugh
Army
Ian Transport Command
Armament
Seneall
Texas
States
Paty Jo
Port Yand
Ore
Moe Ger- Taany
Munster
Bremer
Ludwigshaven
Tinee
Tinee Frankfurt, Paris, Brunschur Time). Regensburg and Surcigaet
Berlin
Personal Reminiscence of a Battered Flight Crew at War
Bagg recalls a brutal mission under minus sixty nine degrees and repeated enemy attacks. A Focke-Wulf strafed as shells tore through airframes, gunsights failed, and oxygen dwindled. Despite chaos, a gunner from Bangor, Maine, Star Sere RB E Grover, earned praise as a fearless marksman amid the ETO air battles and a tense flight toward Brunswick.
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E Grover
Bangor
Bertin
Bauga
Brunswick
Praci
Sle
Local Notes From Eagle Mills and Beech Area
Eagle Mills Mrs Louis Patrie is spending vacation at Hampton Beech A Red Cross sewing meeting will be held at the Church of Christ Wednesday 21 at 1 pm Misses Ann and Marion Less of Troy are visiting grandparents Rev and Mrs Thomas F Bess Mr and Mrs John Keith and daughters Corrathy and Helen returned from a lake George trip Shirley E Clickner son of Mr and Mrs Wesley H Clickner left for Fort Dix for aviation cadet training His twin brothers Kenneth W Clickner in Hawai i and Sere Ker mit F Clickner in the Army Air Forces at Camp Billie Illinois are also in service.
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Louis Patrie
Hampton
Beech
Red Cross
Church of Crist
Ann
Marion
Troy
Thomas F. Bess
John
Keith
Wesley H. Cue Cently
Fort
di Haz
Brothers
Corp
Kenneth . W. Clickner
Communications
Army
Hawai
Sere
Kermit F. Clickner
Camp Billie, Til
N Ny Stocket
Ridge
Catherine Ralston
Bracken
Pearleet
Frances Brown
Shushankz
Mroasd
James Bevis
Wallace Foster
of &N
India
Jesn McNnicht
Asbury Park
X. F
Wilson McKnight
Clark
Waterford
George Hilgus
Chandlers Whyland
Frank Gregory
Dannemora
Charles J. Connolly
Ars
Robert Marshall
Greenwich
Charles Lawrence
Gren
Alice Mary
John Charles Lawrence
Lansintours
Bolton
Sperdt
Mercaret Jackson
Willem Foley
Sampson
William Foley
W. ‘Wallace Foster
Mes Frack Grecorr
Danzemora
Sia
James Edwards
Orbory
Bessie McCarthy
Everett
Lucy Butler
Charles N
James Edwarts
Robert Edwarts
Cambridge kinfolk and local visits noted in scattered social items
Buskirk Miss Betty Gates of Cembridge is a guest of her cousin Miss Joan Eder. Miss Nader Hall spent the weekend with new grandmother Mrs. Mary Hall. Miss Lois Eddy visited cousin Miss Beverley Gates at Cembridge. Harry McClellan had an operation at Mary MicClellan Hospital Friday. John Martens at Camp Van Sehoonhoves. Waldo Brownell at the camp. Corrine Eddy of Schenectady visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Guy Eddy. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moon of Greensich were guests Thursday of Mrs. Harvey Bailes. Mrs. Kenneth R. Wallace resigned from a visit with sister Mrs. L. Jensen of Schenectady.
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Guy Eddy
Clerence “Oon
Greensich
Harvey
Bailes
Kenneth R. Wallace Han
L. Jensen
Schenectady
Real Estate Man Dies in Schenectady Community
Eugene J. Ryan, 80, a well known real estate and insurance broker of Schenectady, former alderman and county auditor, Oriental Temple member, A. A. ON. MES. of Trev., died Saturday evening at his home after six weeks illness.
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Eugene J. Ryan
Schenectady
Oriental Temple
A. A. ON. Mes
Trev
Local social notes and visits across schaghticoke to danemora
Names and towns abound as residents and relatives travel visit and host events around Schaghticoke and nearby areas. Catherine Ralston moves Bracken from Pearl Street while Mrs Frances Brown visits Shushan. Many ties to Pearl Harbor Fort Stags and Fort Bragg noted with gatherings at homes in Greenwich Lansintours Cohoes Dannemora and Troy. A First Presbyterian Church meets Monday at 8 p.m. and local residents plan visits and hosting through the week.
Closing Exercises at Second Baptist Vacation School
East Side church held the Vacation Bible School closing in the sanctuary Sunday evening with about attendees. The school enrolled about children including thirty in the program. Each class presented work, the beginners sang Wonderful Jesus and recited A Childs Prayer, primary used flannelgraph The 23rd Psalm, and sang A Song of Summer. Juniors performed an acrostic Worship as Miss Jean Champine read Why Are We Here.
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Second Baptist Church
Jesus
Juveiors
Misa
Jean Champine
Public call urges united effort against rising prices
In a 1944 appeal the speaker argues that for the good of the country and each person, everyone must throw every effort into America's fight against rising prices. now is the time to act.
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America
JuniorsIllustrated Life of Pact and Bible Facts Highlight School Program
The article lists student presentations titled The Life of Pact and Facts About the BLT along with readings on Noaa Noah and Science Speaks On the Libre. It notes teachers who died Mrs Arthur Chrestensen Mrs John M Demers and lists staff and students from Spring Avenue Head and Hampton Beach plans.
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Noah
Arthur Chrestensen
John M. Demers
Leonard Cropser
Henry W
Rob Clapper
Earl B. Rocon
Pingon
Liberator Crew Stranded 44 Hours Before Rescue
An eight man bomber crew drifted at sea for 44 hours after their Liberator crashed near Britain. Survivors spoke of scant food and cold, prayers, and a lone guard’s faithful watch as two dinghies drifted, one holding the wounded. A fishing boat, The Three Brothers, later rescued them amid doubts about their身份.
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Dixue Tighe
Liberator
Britain
Germany
Cepr
Unc
Hinde
Difiehies
Sta Serzt
Wilfred Haechke
Cedar Rapids
Neb
Haschke
Raowa
Ben Yeouts
South
Hb Cours
Ciseron
Peasacs
Venuti
Alice
Alice West
Cicera
Sergi
Richard Campbell
Sixteenth Avenue
Seattle
Wash
Thorne
Hirst
Dunkirk
Memories Methodist Church to host bake sale and auction
Thistle Group of the Memories Methodist Church will sponsor a two minute image sale with cochairmen Mrs. Millard Carle and Mrs. Henry Lawless. Saturday the Woman's Society of Christian Service will hold a food sale from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mrs. Thomas Tynan chairs with Mrs. Wesley Griffith assisting. bread dolls beans salads cakes cookies pies and treasurer Mrs. Charles Hall.
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Tommorow
Thistle
Methodist Church
Millard
Carle
Henry Lawless
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Thomas Tynan
Wesley Griffith
George Johnson
Fred. McCabe
Lester G. Coonrod
Thomas Macarthur
Charles Hall
Former Petersburg Resident Harold Major Died in California
Word came of the death in California of Rev. Harold Major D D a Petersburg figure who spent 14 summers at Friendship Sangalow with his family. Born in Brooklyn he studied at Louisville Theological Seminary and led several large churches including First Baptist Church in Boston and First Baptist Church of Atlanta. In recent years he did war work in Cleveland and attended War Labor Board sessions in Washington. Survivors include his widow a son Lieut Edger Major in the Army and two daughters. He aided at funerals and weddings in Petersburg and was active with local friends Thurman and Stamen Hull.
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California
Harold Major
Petersburg
Friendship Sangalow
Brooklyn
Theological Seminary
Louisville
Boston
First Baptist Couret of Atlant
Garde Dattgs
Tex
Troy Country Club
SP Hiult
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Schaghticoke
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Bragg
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Victoria Avenue
Bits
Camerer Road
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Jane Abbey
Ida Poegins
Wifteemth Street
Syracuse
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Annepots
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Fort Schuyler
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Sixteenth Street
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