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December 5, 1945
Get PDFTells of 1st LT. Robert Gross, the personnel officer of the 13th AACS Squadron, who had traveled to Greenland on the Arctic schooner, the Effie Morrissey; shows a captioned photograph of a group of workers of the visiting plane the Hag of Hardwyck; and reveals that civilian employees had began to outnumber military personnel on base.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1016/thumbnail.jp
Ninth air force service command
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Like all other commands, the IX Air Force Service Command is made up of people -- people whose jobs began long before the invasion, endured right up to H-hour and beyond. There were glider pilots, engineers, clerks, mechanics, cooks, doctors, truck drivers; in fact, every conceivable job necessary for victory was filled by an expert who was willing to subordinate everything to the goal ahead. Take the transport pilots, for instance. Red-eyed, flying seemingly endless hours, they operated on a two-way schedule that carried everything from gasoline and guns and bombs to blood plasma and sulfa drugs into Normandy, then carried wounded men back to England on knock-down cots which made ambulances of the Douglas Skytrains. And they did this on schedules which sent ten planes across the Channel every hour.
The achievements of the IX Air Force Service Command are many and varied-it is virtually impossible to enumerate all of them. Perhaps it would be better simply to say that it is the good right arm of the Ninth Air Force. And when service is wanted by the Ninth, it is the Service Command which provides it as quickly as possible.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1118/thumbnail.jp
The odyssey of the 411 Engineer Base Shop Battalion, 1943-1944: a pictorial narrative of the 411th Engineer Base Shop Battalion in Australia and New Guinea
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This book was prepared for the members of the 411th Engineer Base Shop Battalion, as a pictorial record of its achievements in The Land Down Under during the period from 1943 to 1944 in the war against Japan. Although the book deals principally with the construction of power barges, the powerful influence of Australia is strongly felt in the background.
During the early stages of the war against Japan, when port facilities in the South-West Pacific Area were practically non-existant, and the problem of supplying troops in forward coastal areas of New Guinea posed a critical problem, the Engineer Amphibian Command was formed at Camp Ed wards, Mass. One of the organizations in this command was the 411th Engineer Base Shop Battalion.
Although the members of the 411th were selected for particular technical skills, further specialized training occupied the rest of the year. Some of the men were sent to various schools and industrial plants, principally in New England and the Middle West. In the fall of 1942 Company A was ordered to Caribelle, Florida, for training, and Companies B and C were sent to New Orleans, La., for a period of intensive training at the Higgins plant. By December of 1942 all the companies of the 411th had made the trip to the Pacific coast and were located at Ford Ord, California, awaiting orders to proceed overseas.
Company C had the distinction of preceding the remainder of the Battalion to service overseas; but on January 7, 1943, the 411th passed under the Golden Gate aboard the Dutch ship Tabinta. Irresistably the great ship plunged into the gathering darkness, symbolic of the uncertainty; but confidence which we felt.
Now we were told. We were bound for the mysterious Island Continent of Australia, and our new home was to be at Cairns, in the tropical north. Our job was to build the LCV landing barge. Let us see just what happened.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1120/thumbnail.jp
A pictorial history of the U.S.S. Massachusetts
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Tossing the first sixteen-inch shell to open the European offensive and firing the last big naval bullet in the Pacific campaign -- these are the outstanding mileposts in the 39-month fighting career of the U. S. S. Massachusetts.
The Japs have capitulated; details for carrying out the formal surrender ceremonies have been arranged for the official end of World War II. The stories that make the war history can now be released and Big Mamie has one of her own. It may not be spectacular, but it reveals a ship manned by resolute and efficient officers and men who turned in a workmanlike job and who more than once received well done from the Admirals. It wasn\u27t always easy going and the grind was monotonous but ... here\u27s our story.
When peace came to the Pacific, Mamie could look back on a long and action-packed career. From the time of commissioning on May 12, 1942, until the end of the war in mid-August, 1945, she had logged over 225,000 nautical miles, her journeyings taking her all the way from Casablanca to Tokyo and the China coast. She had taken part in some thirty-five engagements with the enemy. She had sunk or damaged five ships, including the mighty French battleship, Jean Bart. She had taken part in nine bombardments of enemy territory, three of which were directed at the Japanese home islands. She had destroyed or assisted in the destruction of at least eighteen Japanese aircraft. Her scout Kingfisher planes had rescued seven aviators downed by enemy fire, often performing the rescues within sight and range of Jap guns. Thanks to her fire-power and speed, she had lent invaluable support to the fast carrier task forces as they carried out their mission of crippling Japanese air-power and seizing control of Pacific skies.
Our ship has been a workhorse of the Fleet. She was always in there pitching when there was fighting to be done. She went about her tasks without ostentation and with a high degree of competence and skill gained from long hours of practice and of combat.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1150/thumbnail.jp
The history of USS Missouri
Get PDFU.S.S. Missouri. Over this spot on 2 September 1945 the instrument of formal surrender of Japan to the Allied Powers was signed, thus bringing to a close the second World War. The ship at that time was at anchor in Tokyo Bay. Latitude 35° 21\u27 17 North -- Longitude 139° 45\u27 36 Easthttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1209/thumbnail.jp
The 106th: The Story of the 106th Infantry Division
Get PDFWhen the history of the Ardennes fighting has been written, it will be recorded as one of the great strategic Allied successes of the war in Europe. Tactically, for the 106th and the other American divisions involved, it was a bitter and costly fight. But it becomes increasingly clear that the Germans expended in that last futile effort those last reserves of men and materiel which they needed so badly a few months later. The losses and sacrifices of the 106th Infantry Division paid great dividends in eventual victory.
These pages are dedicated to those gallant men who refused to quit in the darkest hour of the Allied invasion, and whose fortitude and heroism turned the tide toward overwhelming victory.
Donald Armpriester Stroh, Major General, Commandinghttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1215/thumbnail.jp
January 10, 1944
Get PDFRecounts a ceremony at Dow Field gym in which Captain Richard A. Yorke of Kingfield, Maine, is posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and other awards; Dow Field\u27s Post Personality spotlights PVT Lee Dalecky; and LT Lawrence Fitton is profiled in Know Your Officers.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1037/thumbnail.jp
October 13, 1944
Get PDFThe Post Personality features S/SGT Russell Swickard; Know Your Officers spotlights Captain Lewis W. Graham; PVT Johnny Alloca wowed a crowd as a fill-in boxer; and S/SGT Philip Stem said I do to WAC Ernestine Gerrathy.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1095/thumbnail.jp
November 8, 1944
Get PDFCPL Frank Higgins and PFC Mitchel Strange proudly display large deer they brought down on the base; others successfully getting a deer were PFC Otis Cavender, T/SGT Albert E. Weems, Major Joseph G. Moran, PVT Carl F. Wakefield, Captain Elbert Stallard Jr., and SGT David Gantt; Major Harry W. Largent and T/SGT William H. Toles Jr. are profiled; and costume contest winners at the Halloween party were Captain George H. Stone, CWO James R. Campbell, and COL Charles K. Martin.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1079/thumbnail.jp
Buy Your Bonds Here, 5th War Loan, Back the Attack!
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