Invasion Memoir From D Day Letter By Otto Russell Jr
A 1945 letter from Sgt. Otto Russell Jr to his parents recalls D Day experiences in England and Normandy. He describes crossing the channel on an LST, landing under heavy fire, witnessing casualties, and fighting with infantry units. He notes lives lost, moments of fear, and his belief he would return home.
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Sgt
Otto Russell Jr
Otto Russell
France
England
LST
Portsmouth
Jap Officer Forced American To Shoot Own Wife and Daughter
Charles W. Smith, a 45 year old Navy veteran, testified to an American Legion audience in Kansas City that while a prisoner in the Philippines he was compelled by a Japanese official to shoot his wife and daughter. He described being ordered to fire with a loaded machine gun, then bury them, under threat of accountability for their deaths, and recalled brutal abuse by Japanese officers.
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Kansas City
Kan
Charles W. Smith
Philippines
Smith
Navy
American Legion
Pearl Harbor
Boy Reunited as $64 Found After Lost $10 Dilemma
At the Greendale Independence Day celebration Jimmy Donahue lost his mother's $10 bill. Firemen announced the loss, crowds searched, and Jimmy returned home with $64 found nearby.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Greendale Village
Jimmy Donahue
Jimmy
Greendale
Workers Needed In Ship Yards
Royce Jones of the U S Civil Service Board at the Whitewright post office cites heroism of Commander Ira E McMillian of Fort Worth and Honey Grove and Signal man Jesse C Fitzgerald of Mesquite while urging qualified electricians machinists and sheet metal workers for Pearl Harbor Puget Sound Hunter s Point and Mare Island Navy Yards. Applications available at Whitewright post office or Civil Service offices in Dallas and New Orleans.
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Newcomb
Ryukyus
Royce Jones
U. S Civil Service Board
Whitewright
Ira E. McMillian
Fort Worth
Honey Grove
Jesse C. Fitzgerald
Mesquite
Dallas County
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Puget Sound
Hunter’s Point
Mare Island Navy Yards
Newconéb
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Dallas
Texas
New Orleans
Louisiana
Army post office pans a champion father in service
In San Francisco the Army Post Office detachment names Pfc Wilbert L Fleury as the champion father of the armed services after noting he has thirteen children. Cpl Chester J Barrett of Concord New Hampshire had been a rival candidate. Fleury, formerly a Port Huron mail carrier, and his family draw 354 dollars monthly from the Army, more than a colonel’s base pay.
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San Francisco
Calif
Army Post Office
Wilbert L
Pop
Fleury
Armed Services
Army
Chester J. Barrett
Concord
N. H
Port Huron
Mich
Truman Signs Act To Raise Postal Pay
President Truman signed a law giving postal workers an average base pay rise of 400 a year, boosting the 300,000 employees payroll by about 150 million annually. The increase ends wartime 300-a-year bonuses, retroactive to July 1, and follows the Little Steel formula for wage boosts. A fragmented court room exchange later included a blurred courtroom remark about an oath and a witness.
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Washington
Truman
Divorce suit in Grayson County against John Steven
Citation issued in 1945 commands John Steven to appear by August 13 in the Grayson County District Court at Sherman to answer Zephyr Steven's petition for divorce on grounds of desertion and abandonment for ten years. Case file No. 53665 shows Zephyr as plaintiff and John as defendant. The order was issued June 25 by Clerk S. V. Earnest with Deputy Nancy Drake.
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State OF Texas
John Steven
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Zephyr Steven
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
Varas
Hardin Survey
Stephen Roach
Pruitt Survey
S. W
J. R. Major
Elmont
Greer
van Alstyne
R. L. Bowen
M. A. Jacobs
Jacobs
D. K. Tate
Joseph Greer
Tate
Commissioners Court
District Court
Sardines Plan a Weekend Trip Up the Coast
Two sardines swim in San Diego Bay. One suggests a trip to San Francisco for the weekend. The other balks at the long swim and jokes about travel by train and being jammed like soldiers.
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San Diego
San Francisco
Tax delinquency listing for Grayson County properties
State of Texas and Grayson County notify that multiple parcels in Van Alstyne Sherman and Elmont areas are delinquent on taxes. The suit seeks foreclosure and sale to satisfy $1,031.37 state and $1,181.57 county taxes plus costs. hearing set for August 1, 1945 in Sherman.
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State OF
Texas
Grayson
P. D. Fulton
Laura Pool
van Alstyne
Grayson County
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Cooper Street
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Wm. Creager and
H. Hardin
Same
Bettie Roach
Weaver
J. W
Johnny” Weaver Tire Company
Seiberling and Pennsylvania Tires
Denison
S. Crockett
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