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Howard L. Daubs (photo)
Mr. and Mrs. Daubs of Albion have three sons in the service they are:
Howard L. DaubsS-2 was inducted into the Navy December 21, 1944, received his boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. His present address is Howard L. Daubs S 2-c, Rangefinder Spotter School, Class 13-44, U.S. Nav. Rep. Base, San Diego 36, California. Howard is attending a school to become a rangefinder operator on a battleship.
Hubert Daubs (photo)
Mr. and Mrs. Daubs of Albion have three sons in the service they are:
A-C Hubert Daubs enlisted in the Naval Air Corps April 1, 1943. He received his basic training in Murray, Kentucky. He is now attending primary flight school. His present address A-C Hubert Daubs, 1-B-5 Bk 4-108, U.S.N.A.S., Ottumwa, Iowa.
Willis Daubs (photo)
Mr. and Mrs. Daubs of Albion have three sons in the service they are:
Cpl. Willis Daubs was inducted into the army, March 25, 1942. He is a glider pilot and a radio operator. He received his basic training at Camp Claiborne, La. His present address is Cpl. Willis Daubs 36070813, Hq. Co. 326 Glider Infantry, APO 333, Camp Mackall , North Carolina.
Raymond Dillon, who has been in the army since last summer, has been honorably discharged as being over age, and with Mrs. Dillon, who has been with her husband for some months past, has returned home. Mrs. Dillon has remained teaching at the Albion grade school, replacing her mother Mrs. T. H. Shepard who had been substituting for her as teacher of the fifth grade.
Donovan D. Dunk (photo)
Corporal Donovan D. Dunk, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Royal dunk of Albion has been in the service since June 8,
1940. His outfit is Co. D, 22nd Infantry, 4th
Division and is stationed at Camp Gordon, Augusta, Ga.
Pvt. Bill Elliott formerly of Albion where he grew up and where he
made his home until after the death of his father, is now somewhere overseas.
His address is William Elliott 35732438 Dist Eng. Hdqrs. XVII District, APO 647
Care Postmaster, New York N. Y. He is the son of Mrs. Mamie Elliott of Evansville.
Virginia Etheridge (photo)
STAND BY, MATE, FOR THE STORY OF NAVY WAVE-FAIRFIELD’S VIRGINIA ETHERIDGE
(written expressly for the Wayne County Record)
A year ago last February
21-year old Virginia Etheridge was clerking in Werner’s Food Market Here.
Now she’s logging in confidential mail and filing equally confidential correspondence as it arrives at the Navy’s Subordinate Command Service Force, Pacific Fleet, San Francisco, Calif.
Virginia (it’s second class petty officer Etheridge) has been enjoying leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Etheridge, 410 S. First Street, and although “it is nice to be home”, she admits she’s “anxious to go back to the Navy routine.”
When Virginia enlisted in the WAVES-it was March 1943-she passed a conclusive physical examination at the St. Louis Office of Naval Officer Procurement. Since then she’s improved her health.
She’s kept good hours and eaten good food. When she put on the WAVE uniform, she put off the habit of climbing on a drug store stool for an orange juice breakfast, and skipping lunch because she had to buy a hat.
Virginia is proud of her uniform. Not because her work hours are spent with an especially rarified variety of gold braid, but because she’s a WAVE. “I think our uniforms are “tops” and I’ve never grown tired of mine,” she vows in all sincerity.
Virginia washes her white summer blouses herself and takes her shoes to the cobbler at the first starboard listing of the heel. She sends her white summer dress uniform to the cleaners often and saves it for good.
Virginia uses nautical terms. She logs in and logs out, is secured at night and piped out of bed in the morning. She refers to her separate floors of her San Francisco barracks (which she terms “very nice”) as decks and food as chow.
At first she was self-conscious about her new lingo….as self-conscious as a second year French student the first time she asked a waiter for the soup of the day.
Now it’s routine-and navy and anything that’s Navy is ok with Yeoman Virginia Etheridge.
Ask Yeoman Etheridge for the greatest thrill of her life and you’d expect her to go into a lengthy oration about the time she met Bob Hope and Bing Crosby… or her visits aboard Uncle Sam’s big battleships and cruisers.
But not so this Woman Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. “The greatest thrill for me was my Yeoman training at Stillwater, Oklahoma,” she replies without hesitation.
William J. Etheridge (photo)
Edward Countians In The Service
Pvt. Etheridge is the son of the late Alvin Etheridge and is the husband of Mrs. Mary Alice Bunnage Etheridge. He was inducted on January 15 of this year and is stationed at Camp Robinson, Ark., where his address is Pvt. William J. Etheridge, 36932291, Co. C, 120th Bn., 81st Regt., IRTC, Camp Robinson, Arkansas.
Lester Fawkes (photo)
Soldier Home on Furlough
Cpl. Lester Fawkes of Valparaiso, Ind., came Saturday evening for a 7 day furlough with his wife and daughter
here and parents in Bone Gap. Cpl. Fawkes is being transferred to Reno, Nevada.
Marshall E. Fawkes (photo)
Bone Gap Boy Commissioned in Chemical Warfare Service
It’s a long road from
company bugler to second lieutenant as any boy in the service can tell you, but
this road has been traveled by Marshall E. Fawkes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floren
H. Fawkes of Bone Gap.
Fawkes, one time bugler at Scott Field, was graduated as a second lieutenant last Friday at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., having completed the 14th Unit Gas Officers’ Course. The course studied by students was mainly concerned with Chemical Warfare Service material, protection against injuries from toxic agents and the Air Force tactical use of toxic agents.
Some smart infantryman, cavalryman or artilleryman might make some crack about the logical future of a bugler being in a “gas officer” course, but our hats are off to any boy who completes the rigorous course necessary to win a commission. One friend of ours who is taking officer’s training says they call’em ninety day wonders and the wonder of it is that any candidate for officer’s training can survive for ninety days!
Harold Fildes (photo)
Edwards Countians in the Service
Pvt. Harold Fildes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Fildes of Edwards county and husband of Mrs. Ruth Saxe Fildes,
was inducted Jan 27. His address is Inf. Co. Q, APO 15404, Care of the
Postmaster, New York, N.Y.
Max Ford (photo)
Max Ford, s2-c, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Ford, Bone Gap, enlisted Sept. 8 and went to Great Lakes to
enter boot training on Oct. 20. He is now in Pre-Radio school and his
address is G. E. M. Ford, s2-c, 753-61-65, TTS, Pre-Radio Co., 1336, Hugh
Manley, 2935 W. Polk St., Chicago 12, Ill.
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