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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1944
Page
6
A wartime demobilization snapshot at Ft Sheridan describes the 36 hour processing of GI Joes as they move through separation centers. Soldiers surrender equipment, receive medical and dental exams, counseling, and final mustering out pay before exiting with an honorary discharge.
Pay and travel money are provided to returning service members as they leave separation centers. The first installment of mustering out pay is $100 plus travel allowances at five cents per mile. Mustering out pay caps at 300 dollars for short service and 300 dollars for foreign service after 60 days. At Ft Sherman about 90 percent are discharged for the convenience of the government, including ASTP students and civilian pilot trainees no longer needed.
Warrant Officer Jacob A. Evans takes over as bandleader at Davis-Monthan Army Air Field replacing Chief Warrant Officer Franz G. Nierlich who is reassigned to Ft Sumner AAF New Mexico. Nierlich has built the Tucson ensemble since 1942 and has a 35 year Army career with service in China Central America and the United States. Nierlich studied at Juilliard under Damrosch and led troops from 1910 onward, shaping morale through music.
A Los Angeles war housing project was set for occupancy except for 566 doors missing between April and November. Donald Scott, president of the Western Defense Housing Company, reported to police that the doors vanished when installation was due on November 22 and that a specific employee disappeared about the same time.
Washington December 8. The Navy department reports two Arizona sailors and a marine from the state as wounded in today's casualty list. The sailors are Donaald John Bowley and another unnamed Arizonan, with the third wounded service member also from Arizona. The release provides initial casualty statuses and names.
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