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Clarence W. Mann (photo)
Pvt. Clarence W. Mann,
36066-431, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mann of Ellery is stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass., and his address is Co. H., 142nd Infantry, 36th
Div., APO 36. Mann has been in the service since last August.
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HOME ON FURLOUGH
(Date written in pencil Feb, 1943)
Pvt. Clarence W. Mann, who is stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass., arrived Thursday afternoon for an eleven day furlough and visit with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mann.
K. V. Mason (photo)
Postmaster, K. V. Mason has
been ordered to report to Camp McCoy, Wis. on Oct. 17, as a member of the
unorganized reserve. A veteran of 4 ½ years of Army service during World
War II, Mr. Mason, who holds a Master Sergeant rating in the reserves, served
in the ETO, the Burma-Chinese theater and the Persian Gulf Command as a member
of an engineering unit. He became postmaster of Albion in January,
1940. Under civil service rules, he will resume his postmastership
following his discharge from army service. An acting postmaster to serve
during his absence has not yet been named.
Pvt. Donald Matheny was injured in Belgium on January 17th according to a message received last week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Matheny from Mrs. Don Matheny, who had been notified by the War Department. Don who was inducted July 8 of last year, trained at Camp Hood, Texas, before going overseas. He arrived in France Dec. 24; Don is with an infantry outfit. A letter received later by Mr. and Mrs. Matheny here states that Don was “very seriously injured.”
Sgt. Clifton B. Maxwell,
husband of Mrs. Robilee Maxwell, chief clerk of the Edwards County Rationing
Board, is somewhere overseas and now gets his mail in care of APO 472,
Postmaster, New York.
Sgt. Maxwell has had a somewhat varied career in the army. Inducted into an infantry outfit in March, 1942, he served at Claiborne, in Louisiana, Benning, in Georgia and spent some time at several east coast camps before finally going across. A year ago his unit was made air-borne outfit and Maxwell is with a specially trained glider unit. Several months ago while still in the U.S., he had 32 glider flights to his credit. Prior to his induction, Maxwell was employed at the offices of Wabash Valley Service Company at Grayville. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Maxwell of Browns community.
Cpl. Harold McCoy, Albion
Marine, now home on leave saw the actual happening pictured above (no picture other
than his) Cpl. McCoy was with a detachment of Marines just off shore at the
time and saw the Heroic act
James A. McKenzie (photo)
Shown above is James AA. McKenzie,
M.M.F.N., who is serving with Pacific fleet in Korean waters. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McKenzie of Albion and enlisted in the navy a year
and a half ago. For some time, following his graduation from high school,
he served as reporter of the Journal-Register.
McKIBBEN REUNION HELD
RECENTLY IN HAWAII
It was a joyous occasion recently when Sgt. Elmer McKibben and Pfc. Eugene McKibben met in the Hawaiian Islands for a family reunion. The boys are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Otis McKibben of Albion. The brothers are stationed some 150 miles apart, Elmer in the infantry and Gene in a tank battalion, but when Gene who has been in the Islands for a year, learned six months ago that his brother Sunshine had landed he immediately began to plan the reunion and recently when he got leave of sufficient length, he immediately set out for Elmer’s camp. The picture shows the reunion in full progress with Gene (left) and Elmer (right).
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Elmer H. “Sunshine McKibben (photo)
Elmer H. “Sunshine” McKibben
son fo Mr. and Mrs. Otis McKibben, is with Co. C, 300th Infantry and
is located at Ft. Benning, Ga. He has been in the service since early
fall and prior to his induction was employed at Crome’s Café.
Pvt. Eugene McKibben,
(36712597) son of Mr. And Mrs. Otis McKibben of Albion, is somewhere overseas
with a tank unit and gets his mail at APO 957 in care of the Postmaster at San
Francisco, California. He has been in the service since Dec 4 of the last year.
Howard McManaman (photo)
Pfc. Howard McManaman arrived
home Sunday morning from Fort Sam Houston on ten day furlough. He was
called home by the illness of his mother, Mrs. Daisy McManaman, who was a
patient at Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, but who has since been taken to the
home of her son Harold there where she is reported as slightly improved.
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(Note date he was wounded Nov. 16th)
Another Albion man, Sgt. Howard McManaman, who was wounded the same day, has recovered and returned to hi sold outfit. Mrs. McManaman received his Purple Heart some time ago.
Calvin McRoberts (photo)
Pvt. Calvin McRoberts
36951257, Browns, was inducted March 1, 1944. His wife, Mrs. Wannetta
McRoberts, makes he home in Browns. Pvt. McRoberts has probably the
shortest address of any service man we have published in some time. It is
3323 SIAM Co., APO 655, Care Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Charles Metcalf, M.M. 3-c returned home Saturday morning after almost two years service with the navy, Fourteen months of this time spent overseas. He was in the Philippines and on Borneo during invasion of that island. He went to Great Lakes for his discharge, and was met in Chicago by Mrs. Metcalf, who accompanied him to Albion.
Pvt. Thomas Dale Metcalf,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Metcalf of Albion, was inducted April 24, and was
sent to Camp Maxey, Texas, for his basic training. After this camp was
closed he was transferred to Camp Fannin, Tex., to complete his training.
His address is Pvt. Dale Metcalf, 4601-7941, Co. D, 51 Bn., 11th
Regt., Camp Fannin, Texas.
Norman Michels (photo)
Pfc. Norman Michels who is stationed
at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, Md., returned to camp yesterday after a
ten day furlough and visit with his mother.
Bobby Miller (photo)
Capt. Bobby Miller, Albion,
who has been overseas since Dec. 27, 1943, and in action in the European
theatre for most of the time since, arrived in New York last Friday, according
to a message received by Mrs. Miller at Charleston and local relatives and friends.
Mrs. Miller, who is teaching in Charleston, left Sunday for Chicago to meet her
husband in that city. They will probably come to Albion later.
Capt. Miller, who enlisted in 1941, served in the ground forces in Panama, later was returned to this country for training and won his wings as a fighter pilot. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross as well as other decorations. Bobby was flying Thunderbolts as fighters, and dive bombers as well, over Europe before the invasion, during the invasion, and since the invasion and has probably run up a score of fighting hours not held by many pilots. In at least one instance he brought his ship home on a wing and a prayer and stepped unscathed from the crash landed wreckage.
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A Ninth Air Force Thunderbolt Base, England—Second Lieutenant Robert Miller of Albion, pilot of a P-47 Thunderbolt, was one of a group of 75 pilots decorated by Major General E. R. Quesada, commander of the Ninth Air Force fighter bombers just prior to the invasion of Europe. Major General Quesada promised the pilots they would play an important role in support of invasion armies.
Lt. Miller received the Air Medal at the ceremonies for dive bombing, strafing, and fighter attacks over the Occupied Countries and Germany. Bobby, who has been in the service since before Pearl Harbor and served with ground crews in the Canal Zone prior to entering pilot training, has been in England for some months. He is the husband of Mrs. Awanda G. Crackel Miller of Albion.
Charles Glenn Miller (photo)
LT.MILLER IS KILLED OFF WESTERN COAST
Mount Carmel Naval Officer Lost in Crash of His Navy Plane
(date written in pencil Wed. Oct. 18, 1950)
Lieutenant Charles Glenn
Miller, U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller, 5222 West Fifth street,
lost his life yesterday in the line of duty in the crash of an airplane.
Official notice came today to his parents from Commander Carl D. Simonson,
commanding officer of Composity Squadron Six-one of San Diego.
The message conveyed deep regrets of the commanding officer and said that Lieutenant Miller was lost while operating with his plane off the USS Princeton approximately 50 miles southwest of San Diego, Calif., October 18. The message added that the body had not yet been recovered and said a letter would soon follow.
The plane was catapulted off the USS Princeton when the crash occurred. Lieutenant Miller was stationed in San Diego. He was in the Air Service of the U.S. Navy. Stationed in San Diego also is Lt. Com., Freal Gibson, from whom word came today to his brother, Paul Gibson, of the fatal accident.
Lieutenant Miller, native of Mt. Carmel, was 29 years of age and would have been 30 next March 6. Besides his parents he is survived by one sister, Mrs. J. T. (Pat) Johnston, Mobeetie, Texas. He was a graduate of Mt. Carmel high school in the class of 1939.
After graduating from high school he attended the University of Illinois for two years enlisting in the Navy at the age of 20. He served through the recent World War and was commissioned May 7, 1943. Lieutenant Miller was an outstanding figure through school here and was prominent in athletics. He played both on the football team and the basketball team and his last two years in school was captain of the basketball team. He continued his athletic activities on going to the university.
In high school here he was also a member of the Glee Club, the M. club and the Honor society and class president his first and last years. He was rated an exemplary student and was widely known as an outstanding youth and young man by all who knew him.
Paul W. Mills (photo)
The above picture of Cpl.
Paul W. Mills, (30682314) and a buddy was taken at Fort Dix, N.J. where Cpl.
Mills is stationed with the 195th Chemical Depot Co. Mills is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex J. Mills of Bone Gap and has been in the service
since August 18, 1943.
Pfc. Duane Mitchell is now located in France according to recent word received by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mitchell.
Jack C. Mitchell (photo)
EDWARDS COUNTIANS IN THE SERVICE
Cpl. Jack C. Mitchell, who recently received his wings as a gunner at Kingman Army Air Field, Kingman, Arizona, is spending a fifteen day furlough with relatives here. At the end of his furlough he will report to Lincoln, Nebraska, for further assignment.
Jack was inducted in June of 1943. he completed his basic in the infantry at Fort McClellan, Ala., and then transferred to the air corps. After graduating from armament school at Buckley Field, Colorado, in March he was sent to Kingman.
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S-SGT. JACK MITCHELL REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION
S-Sgt., Jack Mitchell, son of Cliff Mitchell, of Evansville, and brother of Mrs. Howard McManaman……(rest of article missing)
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“I WAS LUCKY,” SAYS S-SGT. JACK MITCHELL
The B-17 Fortress of which S-Sgt. Jack Mitchell of Albion was left was left waist gunner had lost two engines to flak over the target. The target was a point south of Berlin. With thirty minutes’ flying left, the crippled giant was over Hungary. The pilot and crew had given up on getting back to their base in Italy. They just hoped to get over territory that was not quite so hot. It was then that the Messerschmidt jumped them. The crew of the Fortress had dumped their armament to lighten the ship. They dropped their landing gear to show they were helpless and could not offer any fight. The M-E pilot fired a couple of bursts at them and went on. “Some of the German fighters were human,” said Jack. Home on 60 day furlough before reporting to Miami for reassignment, Jack is Albion’s first liberated prisoner to return home.
“It was at 6,500 feet that the “bail-out signal” was flashed,” said Mitchell. “We thought the pilot intended to crash-land the ship. Why he changed his mind, I don’t know. Anyway I made my first parachute jump, and not by any effort on my part, it was a good jump and I made an uneventful landing.’
“Four of us were captured as soon as we hit the ground by Hungarian police and the Wehrmacht. Lodged in a Hungarian jail, temporarily, we were the object of much curiosity on the part of the peasants in the village where we were held, but they showed no hostility.”
“In a short time we were sent to Stalag Luft III which at that time was near Nurnberg. Later the camp was moved south of Munich and the prisoners were marched the 150 mile distance. We got good treatment, as the end of the war was known to be not far off. Our Guards admitted that “Deutschland ist kaput” and we fared better than did the prisoners taken earlier in the war.”
Tommy Mitchell (photo)
Pfc. Tommy Mitchell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mitchell of Albion has been in the service since last April,
when he resigned his position with Copeland Cleaners jeer and accepted one with
Uncle. Since his induction, Tommy has completed a course in clerical
administration at Fargo, N.D., and taken unto himself a wife, the former Miss
Georgia Crackel, of Albion. There is probably no connection between the
fact that Pfc. Tommy first took a course in administering and then got
married. From experience we know that all the administering one can learn
in single life, doesn’t amount to a darn with a wife. Tommy’s address is
711th T. G. ORTC, Bks. 1205, Seymour Johnson Field, N.C.
James Montgomery (photo)
HE WAS ON MIDWAY
James Montgomery, water tender
second class, U.S. Navy, has been visiting at the home of Roscoe Evans at
Browns, where he lived before he joined the navy some 3 years and 3 months
ago. For the past nine months, Montgomery was assigned to shore duty at Midway Island where he worked in the evaporating plant at the power house. He was
there when the Japs came calling last summer and was there when they left
somewhat quicker than they came.
Montgomery describes the engagement as “plenty hot” and says bombs dropped within 300 yards of where he was working, but that the Japs missed the power plant. He brought Mr. Evans souvenir splinters of 1000 pound Jap bombs. The young seaman was shipped home on furlough by passenger liner and after visiting relatives here, at East St. Louis, Shelbyville and Sullivan will report for duty at Bremerton, Washington, where he expects to be assigned to ship duty, sealed below decks in the boiler room of some navy craft, doing his job as water tender. He is a nephew of Alfred Montgomery of Albion.
GRANDSON OF LOCAL WOMAN KILLED ON SAIPAN
Word was received Monday night Charles Moore, 21, of Mrs. Mattie Tickner and nephew of Mrs. Wahl Winterringer of this city, was killed in action during the bloody battle for Saipan in the Mariana Group recently reported taken by U.S. forces with large loss of life.
Moore was in the Marine Corps and had been in the Southwest Pacific for several months. He has been in the service for several years. Surviving are his parents, States Attorney and Mrs. Roscoe Moore of Perryville, Mo., a brother 18 and a sister 15. Mr. and Mrs. Winterringer went to Perryville Monday night.
Theodoric Q. Moter (photo)
Following somewhat
indirectly in the footsteps of his father, Theodoric Moter, son of Dr. and Mrs.
R. L. 
Moter of Albion is in the
Medical Corps. His address is 3rd Evacuation Hospital, Fort Benning , Georgia.
Pvt. Carl Myers, who is stationed at Camp McCoy, Wis., spent a five day pass at home this week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Myers and other relatives and friends.
Sgt. And Mrs. Donnie Myers of Fort Sam Houston,
Texas arrived Tuesday morning on ten day furlough, Donnie received his
sergeant’s stripes Sunday morning, the day he left on furlough. He is with the
95th Signal Company, 95th division. Mrs. Myers is living
in nearby San Antonio.
(Written in pencil Feb 11, 1942)
John E. Myers
Pvt. John E. Myers, son of Mr. And Mrs. John W. Myers of West
Salem, was one of the first U. S. soldiers to land on North African soil. His
address is Pvt John E. Myers 36073316, Hdq and Hdq Co. 1st Armored
Signal Battalion, APO 668 Care Postmaster New York. Private Myers is brother of
Mrs. Sherman Woods of Route 2 Albion.
Ensign Ellis J. Neal, son of Mr. And Mrs. Jessie Neal of near
Albion entered naval service in April 1942 while attending SINU at Carbondale. In August of last year he was sent to Columbia University, New York, where he
was graduated with the rank of ensign on Nov 24 of last year. After 2 months
more training at Ohio State University at Columbus, he was sent to the West
Coast. He is now stationed at San Francisco.
The following interesting letter has been received by Mr. And Mrs. Jessie Neal from their son, Lt. Ellis Neal who is in the Navy: Oct 7, 1945
Dear mother; We have just come through the Suez Canal and are now in the Red Sea. In fact we could see Mount Sinai at a distance this afternoon. I am including a part of Monday’s plan of the day which gives some very good data. These plans of the day come out each evening around six o’clock and since the war is over they usually give some interesting things about the land and countries we happen to be near.
Sunday’s cruising found us in the vicinity of territory through which Moses led the Israelites to the land of Sinai. He had to roll back the sea to do it. The Israelites wandered around in that wilderness for forty years. Rough going as we can see. It was on Mount Sinai that Moses received the Ten Commandments, and also produced water from rock.
By the way we got a change in orders and are now going to Karachi India, instead of Calcutta. Don’t ask me why, they just changed them, that’s all. Because of this change our trip should be shorter. Our data which they give tells us India has about three times the population of European Russia, which is a mob as we look at it. As for weather, they have plenty. Name it and you can have it. The north has extremes of heat and cold; the central portion has sub tropical heat and the south has sub-tropical weather. Any portion of India has heat and sun doesn’t fool. It is really blaze blazing and only “mad dogs and Englishmen” go out in the noonday sun. Head covering is always necessary.
The worlds highest peak Mount Everest is in the Himalayas, between India and China. The Kyhber pass is the gateway through the Himalayas to Persia across the plains of Tibet. The ancient caravans used to carry silks and precious stones but during the war we loaded them with guns and ammunition.
We got to port Said Saturday night going through the Suez Canal. I didn’t think we would go through it at night, but they turned on the search lights and we steamed right through. It is rather warm here in the Red Sea today. Guess I had better sign off as it is time for supper. As ever Ellis.
Brooks Noah (photo)
EDWARDS COUNTIANS IN THE SERVICE
1st Lieut.
Brooks Noah;
Young Brooks Noah, junior son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Noah, has been having a heluva time for (continued on page seven). (Note person scrap booking did not collect the rest of the article).
Stuart Noah (photo)
EDWARDS COUNTIANS IN THE SERVICE
1st Lieut.
Stuart Noah
Stuart Noah, older son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah, is a first lieutenant and is stationed at Santa Ana Air Base, Calif., as headquarters pilot. Stuart, who was inducted June, 1941, made the grade as pilot and has since received his promotion to that of first lieutenant. Before his induction he was associated with his father in oil development work here.
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