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August 22, 1945
Get PDFAmong the items in this packed issue are: S/SGT. Leslie Brogdon was elected new president of the NCO Club; First Lt. Helen V. Price became new commanding officer of WAC Squadron C; SGT. William Willis won at the Dow Field tennis courts; 2nd LT. Paul Hanley married Gladys Ryder at a base ceremony; and the base celebrated Japan\u27s surrender.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1010/thumbnail.jp
November 16, 1945
Get PDFThe virtuousness of Bangor\u27s women are extolled (combatting a poor reputation brought on by the book and movie The Strange Woman ); Captain Robert S. DuBois, CPL Neal E. Johns, CPL John L. Jonking, CPL Colin A. Williams, and Millie Allen are commended for their work processing passengers at U.S. Customs on base; and Forrest Clancy is congratulated on the birth of his baby girl.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1084/thumbnail.jp
October 24, 1945
Get PDFSix Dow Fielders reenlist: T/SGT Charles F. White, S/SGT Leo F. Kamler, M/SGT William F. Brockman, S/SGT Robert R. Whisler, PFC Charles E. Johnson, and SGT Ronald J. Brady.
The question What do you regard as the cause or causes of the recent sharp increase in the number of automobile accidents? is answered by Mrs. Frances Copolino, CPL John M. Skube, CPL James C. Cowles, Mrs. E. Earle Brown, and V.W. Lenfest.
We see a photo of barber CPL Joseph Camuto and a photograph of 1st LT Edward J. Bartlett, a participant in the first daylight raid on Berlin.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1099/thumbnail.jp
October 31, 1945
Get PDFLT COL Edward J. Soulliere, the new director of Supply and Service, is profiled and pictured on Page One; T/SGT A.L. Thurston, S/SGT James Volz, CPL Victor Branca, SGT Harold B. Bender, and SGT Arthur Hennessey talk about their post war plans; Mrs. Alyce Connor and LT Joseph J. Marshall are shown in photographs at the base library; and Captain Robert C. Dubose looks quite sharp in his military uniform.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1103/thumbnail.jp
On target: a history of the 863d AAA-AW-BN in the Second World War
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The writing of this book began shortly before V~E day. Together with what had been scribbled in the unit history journal and more carefully entered in the more ostentatious records, refreshing notes and photographs submitted by battery representatives were used in the telling and illustrating of this integrated story of the 863d AAA A W Bn.
In this presentation, it was impossible to obtain and relate personal anecdotes involving each man in the battalion. Whether or not you are mentioned specifically, it is our hope that you see yourself described, albeit anonymously, in the experiences and sentiments and moods common to all in this memorable adventure of the 863d.
We have tried to gather and utilize all suitable information brought to our attention to give a full, cohesive, readable story of the battalion and all its officers and men, its campaigns, its missions, its organizational experiences, its troublous days and gayer times- in a word, its life as a military organization from date of activation on 1 June 1943 at Fort Totten, Long Island to V-J Day, 14 August 1945, in and around Bad Soden, Germany.
Sgt. Benjamin Gise, Editor-in-Chiefhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1111/thumbnail.jp
100 missions
Get PDFWords of mine cannot pay adequate tribute to the skill and courage of the air crews; the unending task of the ground crews, and the loyalty and devotion of all concerned with these missions.
I view this record with a pride that is shared by all who know of you now, and one that will be subsequently lauded by the entire nation.
The first hundred have moulded each group into a trim and efficient fighting unit fully capable of the great task remaining before final victory is achieved. It is my sincerest hope that we are still all together, fighting together when that memorable day arrives.
John K. Gerhart, Brigadier General, U.S.A., Commandinghttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1114/thumbnail.jp
316th Troop Carrier Group
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The 316th had the hazardous and vital job of flying supplies and equipment into the battle zone for Montgomery\u27s forces. Killing Germans was the one aim of all the coordinated operations. As the fighting progressed, battle casualties began to show up at the 316th\u27s field at Agedabia, So for the return trip to their base at Tobruk, as many litters as could be laid on the floor of the planes were taken aboard and flown back for hospitalization in the rear areas. Major Francis Z. Reinus, of New York City, group surgeon, had charge of this operation. Colonel Washburn said only two men died en route, and they had been wounded critically in a land mine explosion as they were coming to the base on a truck.
Later, after results of this spur-of-the-moment evacuation had been studied, it became a planned and large-scale operation, resulting in the saving of many lives and in higher morale.
It was for maintaining supply and evacuation lines in that area that the group was awarded its first Presidential Citation.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1117/thumbnail.jp
493rd bombardment group: a pictorial review of operations in the ETO
Get PDFFrom A Short History of the 493rd Bombardment Group (H):
The 493rd Bomb Group assembled for its phase training to serve as a combat unit overseas at the McCook Army Air Field in McCook, Nebraska. The Air Echelon of the Group composed of the 860th, 861st, 862nd, and the 863rd Squadrons collected its air and some ground personnel during the month of February, 1944, and began training in earnest through the month of March.
The usual problems encountered by an outfit in the process of initial organization were dealt with in good stride. The setting up of a briefing and an interrogation technique was ironed out by discussion with the crews as to their likes and dislikes of the procedure while we were on camera bombing missions. Operations began to organize teamwork by stressing on the crews the importance of correct take-off interval, climb, and landing procedure as well as the flying of a correct formation while in the air. Weather found plenty of practice in predicting the frequent snows and changes in weather in that woe-be-gone outpost somewhere in the United States. The bombing section too, played its part by selecting targets for the crews and the crews in turn bombing by camera every conceivable target within operational radius of the base. All departments had their job to do in welding the Group into one smooth operating machine.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1119/thumbnail.jp
On the way: a historical narrative of the Two-thirtieth Field Artillery Battalion, Thirtieth Infantry Division, 16 February 1942 to 8 May 1945
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This is the history of our record as Artillerymen in the 230th Field Artillery Battalion. In its pages we will march together again as comrades-in-arms, with quiet pride in the job we have done, and with the hope that Saint Barbara, the patron of all artillerymen, will look upon our record and find it worthy of the Field Artillery tradition.
It would be ideal if each of us were mentioned by name in this history. But this is the story of our Battalion, and we were and are the Battalion. There was a story to tell; and it had to march along without too much regard for the individual and what he had done. You will find yourself in these pages, because you were there, or you had a friend who was there. You know what the situation was -- this may keep your memories fresh.
We were CROW --and our black wings covered a continent. When peace comes, the rustle of wings of a crow will remind us again of what we did.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1138/thumbnail.jp
Pictorial Handbook of Military Transportation. Operational Photographs of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps, European Theater of Operations. 1 August 1945
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Based on the premise that one picture is worth a thousand words, the photographs of this Iittle volume will tell a long, long story. That story will prove a fertile field for research and for study in military transportation.
These are pictures of operations -- they depict the highlights of the greatest transportation mission of all time. Back of these photographs is the monotony, sweat, toil and death of War.
A study of these photographs will aid TC units in other theaters. They will reveal the ingenuity, the skill, the ability to create and improvise which characterized the TC soldier in the ETO as he met and conquered his problems one after another. They will offer and suggest new ideas, assist future training and shape programs of instruction ... and, too, they will record permanently the achievements of the TC in the ETO.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1214/thumbnail.jp