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85 Million Americans Hold War Bonds
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Going Our Way? Be a Victory Farm Volunteer
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Be With Him At Every Mail Call
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The Eighty-first chemical mortar battalion
Get PDFThis booklet is dedicated to the forty-one officers and men of the Eighty-First Chemical Mortar Battalion who made the supreme sacrifice. To give a thorough account of the accomplishments of the Eighty-First Chemical Mortar Battalion would take thousands of pages. To detail the heroic deeds and meritorious service of the gallant officers and men of the Eighty-First would take more thousands of pages. A booklet the size of this could be written about each enlisted man and .each officer. It is be{ieved the history is concise, yet shows the battalion to have lived up to its motto, Equal To The Task.
• Jack W. Lipphardt, Lt. Col., C. W.S., Commandinghttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1015/thumbnail.jp
Historical highlights of the Eighty-ninth Chemical Mortar Battalion
Get PDFOn November 5, 1943, the 89th Chemical Battalion, Motorized, was activated at Camp Roberts, California per General Orders, Headquarters, 4th Army, by Command of Lt. General William A. Simpson. Major James R. Hudson, CWS, a reserve officer with experience in World War I in the Field Artillery, assumed command.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1040/thumbnail.jp
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Get PDFThe 506th Parachute Infantry was activated on 20 July 1942. Prior to this date a small cadre of officers and non-commissioned officers were quartered in a wall tent area which had been euphoniusly named Camp Toombs . On the shoulders of these officers and men rested the responsibility of forming and training the great regiment which was later to make the camp\u27s new name a famous one -- Toccoa .
Toccoa was the heat of the Georgia summer and fifty torturous minutes three days a week, pounding six miles up and down a mountain. Toccoa was murderous twenty mile forced marches done at 130 per minute. Toccoa was where men and officers learned how to take and give orders. But above all Toccoa was the crucible which forged the spirit of this regiment, and where men discovered they could go much further and do much much more than they ever imagined.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1048/thumbnail.jp
A History of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion
Get PDFFrom the Introduction:
To the men of the 91st Cml Mortar Bn this book is more than a unit history; it is an autobiography -- a rather personal sort of affair. It was written more in deeds than in words by the men who make up this separate battalion, which is, at best, an infinitesimally small part of the present day strength of the United States Armies.
Since a unit is a collection of individuals, like an individual, it gradually assumes a character and a personality which distinguishes it in particular from other units. The object in compiling thls book is to preserve the character of the Battalion, our Battalion, by recording for future nostalgia some of the memories that the men like most to recall when they engage in a typical bull session. The body of the text is essentially a condensation of the units\u27s official history together with humorous incidents, anecdotes, and human interest stories, all unexpurgated within bounds and representative of many thousands of war stories that might have been told about Army life in garrison and in combat overseas. The personal episodes are related as nearly as possible in chronological order parallel to the historical data that best provides a comprehensive background for the stories themselves.
No attempt has been made to describe in detail the geography of that section of Europe over which the Battalion traveled and fought, nor to pass judgement on the character and integrity of the people who live there. The reasons for having placed this limitation on the scope of this work will be obvious to those who have ever come in contact with people who have had their countries and homes turned into battle fields. The political and social reverberations which will undoubtedly be brought about as a result of this latest of World Wars have been left to future historians to record.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1090/thumbnail.jp
December 19, 1945
Get PDFProvides extensive details about the Victory Loan Dance to be held at Bangor City Hall on Friday, December 21; has a photograph of four engineers (Bernie Noden and his son Richard Noden, Frank Clark, Jim Cunningham, and Herb Willey) after a successful bear hunt near Cherryfield; and features civilian chit-chat from Cecilia Riley, Dorothy Bates, Marion Dickson, Theresa O\u27Brien, and Marie Pecorelli.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1020/thumbnail.jp
November 23, 1945
Get PDFS/SGT Bob Senser, PFC Andrew Misthos, T/SGT Harold Benenson, SGT Harry Morris, T/SGT Byron Hutchinson, SGT Adolph Diers, and S/SGT C.J. Pelezynski reveal their post-war plans; Joe Axelson spent a weekend at his hunting lodge in Glenburn; Hollis Parker and Forrest Clancy share notes about their newborns; Genevieve Marcus sold her house trailer; and Estelle Cassell, Gerry Williard, and Eleanor Savoy await the return of their husbands from overseas.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1087/thumbnail.jp
October 17, 1945
Get PDFSGT Jack Ross, PVT Bill McGaughey, PVT Clarence Dyer, PFC Ardayo, and PFC Hilford Daveer are shown mowing the grass at Dow Field; First LT Edward J. Bartlett replaces LT Frank Obermeyer as Post Exchange Officer (Bartlett and his wife, the former Miss Marie Boutin, live on Ohio Street in Bangor at this time); Louie Belliveau serves as the only barber on base; and we see a photograph of LT Helen V. Price, LT Marjorie Raynor, LT Florence F. Foy, CPL Eleanor Krasnopolska, CPL Lillian Lenore, acting 1st SGT Idelia Schleusner; PFC Mary O\u27Brien, PFC Mary Dingley, PFC Minnie Baumann, PFC Frances Savage, PFC Frances Dickerson, and PFC Linn Hill.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1096/thumbnail.jp