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Buy Your Extra Bonds Here, 7th War Loan
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Protect Them -- Don\u27t Pay Over Ceiling Prices
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Serve Those Who Served, Nurses Are Needed In Veterans Administration Hospitals
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June 13, 1945
Get PDFLT COL Orie O. Schurter, former CO of Dow Field, welcomes the new Commanding Officer, LT COL Edwards F. Tindall; Captain Elbert Stallard, the Chief of Dental Services at Dow Field, gets an extended profile and photo; winners in the handball tournaments on base include CPL Leo Stein, SGT Abel Seidman, LT Jerome Grossman, CPL Sheldon Rosenthal, CPL Charles Brown, and W/O A.G. Sprague; Alta Edgecomb has prettiest smile in Hanger 1; Mrs. Louise F. Bell handles Red Cross at hospital; and we get a story entitled 20 Women Doing Men\u27s Jobs on Hangar Line of the Base which name-drops Genevieve Marcus of Bangor, Lilly Langlais of Old Town, and Arvilla Thayer of Bangor.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1054/thumbnail.jp
September 26, 1945
Get PDFThree members, pictured and profiled, of the 135th AACS Squadron return to Dow Field after 14 months in Arctic. Each man had acquired an Eskimo name during his stay at the weather station on Baffin Island. The men were: T/SGT Allen R. Tepe, known as Oowukalak, translated as Big Jowls ; CPL Aloysius B. Griffin, known as Polywatth i.e. Big Ears ; and CPL James E. Kramer, Eegothwola, i.e. Small Man with Glasses.
CPL William Zander is shown serving Rusty the dog a perhaps not dietetically appropriate Coca-Cola.
CPL John Dura, SGT Mario Sirabella, SGT Lowell E. Dahlberg, CPL Beatrice C. Vizena, and SGT Joseph C. Cooper weigh in on processing changes to the Dow Field Observer.
And dozens of civilian Dow Field workers are shown in a group photo.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1112/thumbnail.jp
February 28, 1945
Get PDFLT COL Orie O. Schurter, formerly executive officer of the base, takes over as commanding officer, replacing the transferring COL James C. Jensen; we meet LT. Frank Obermeyer, Jr. an assistant Post Exchange Officer at the base; PFC Tony Mule, PFC Sol Schiff, and PFC Michael Zagar sit at a table, sharing coffee and cookies; and we also get profiles of CPL Clemente Gaud and Ulysses A. Providence.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1033/thumbnail.jp
February 14, 1945
Get PDFMajor Charles W. Hume was named president of the board of directors of the Dow Field Officers\u27 Club; CPL Harding Deane Good won the quarterly physical fitness test at the base, edging out Second LT George E. Doran, Jr.; Captain John T. O\u27Connell rose to the position of Flight Control Officer; CPL James F. Burns had a poem published in the Bangor Daily News; Lt. William Albert McKinley we Dorothy A. Ross; SGT Stanley Milkelk, Information and Education NCO, gets an extended biography; and PVT Margaret (Dickinson) Gilmore also gets a lengthy profile.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1030/thumbnail.jp
March 7, 1945
Get PDFCaptain John J. Fischer and 1st LT Curtis Patterson receive decorations and commendations, complete with photograph; T-4 George E. Schach tells of his deployment at Gander Bay in Newfoundland; PVT Don Croskey, CPL Rex Russell, CPL Grant Jessop, SGT Alfrieda Wauben, and PFC Saul Hennes answer the question If there had been no war and you were living the normal life of a civilian, what do you think you would be doing now? ; PFC Joseph Pohlman was leading scorer in base basketball games, and the engagement of PFC Katherine Green to T/SGT Stanley Lyons is announced.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1063/thumbnail.jp
The saga of the U.S.S. Birmingham: a compilation of her officers & men
Get PDFForeword
It was my good fortune and high honor to be entrusted with the command of the Birmingham from 11 August, 1943 to 22 November, 1944. Those were months filled with action, excitement, and high adventure. The trials and triumphs which we shared together; the knowledge that the success of the ship and the safety of all depended upon the devotion to duty of each; the understanding that the team was more important than the individual; the mutual respect and affection amongst us all; all these things made us shipmates in the finest sense of the word.
In the face of exhaustion, danger, and grimmest tragedy there was no grumbling, no shirking, and no flinching. Young America need concede nothing in fortitude to other races or other generations. Our steel ships, too, are served by iron men.
Never in history had a Captain the good fortune to command a finer crew.
Rear Admiral Thomas B. Inglishttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1163/thumbnail.jp
The Purple and White: June 1945
Get PDFClass photographs of the Class of 1945 are featured. Also included are senior class prophecies, essays, poems, sports\u27 and clubs\u27 photographs, and school and world news of the year. The issue is dedicated to John Bapst students who died fighting in World War II.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/jbhs_yearbooks/1000/thumbnail.jp