AWOL Soldiers Mentioned Across War Fronts
Brief wartime notes profile several service members with short, colorful anecdotes. Pvt Leland B Simpson deserts Guadalcanal to shoot at Japanese then returns to cooking. Pvt Rufus Fee wanders away at Camp Campbell for 20 years before rejoining. Pvt Bobby Oliver once a jockey now cares for mules at Fort Adams. Cpl Sven T Sandburg once served King Gustav in Stockholm and later cooks at Camp Edwards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland B. Simpson
Guadalcanal
Rufus Fee
Camp Campbell
Bobby Oliver
Fort Adams
R.I
Sven T. Sandburg
Names and coincidences fill wartime training notes
Pvt Richard Simon at AAF Basic Training Center in Atlantic City recalls his five fathers and four mothers in three years while veterans share oddities from the war era. WAAC sisters Violet and Zola Gillette reunite after 14 years at Fort Des Moines. Valentine coincidences and quirky names from Fort Hall to Chicago recruitment illustrate the home front during wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Simon
AAF
Atlantic City
N. J
Prestings
Ray Leavens
Walter Buckley
South Pacific
Providence
B. C
WAAC
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Gillette
Zola Gillette
Across Puzzle Style Clues Jumble Highlights Quick Wordplay
A scrambled clue set presents playful puzzle hints including “Salve the Picture Puzzle” and entries like Simple-minded Yellow and Housewive's battleground. The garbled grid references life, time, and wordplay with partial phrases and scattered letters, inviting solvers to infer across and down answers amid missing bits.
Also Mentioned on This Page
fAule
Oliver
Love
St. Valentine’s Day
Milton Behr
Nashville
Fort Logan
Colo
Gordon Roth
Ruth Roth
Fort McClellan
Ala
Guastammachia
Niescewski
Mazurkiewicz
Passalacqua
Caggiano
Kulacz
Fort Hall
Idaho
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
George P. Marine
Marine Recruiting Office
Chicago
Recedes
Ireland
Sloth
Samuel Clemens
You'n
Ciich
Ee En Rsp
Snalls
Bess
Erauting
Gul Lal Societ
Is. Killistilres
Alot Ae
Rapa
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