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Prepare For Winter Now!
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Join the WAC ... This is My War, Too! -- This Poster Contributed by the WAC by Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts
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The Army Nurse In War -- Army Nurse Corps -- Army Of United States
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December 20, 1944
Get PDFWho\u27s Who of Enlisted Men offers a peak into the life and mind of Corporal Leon Tarien; reported that four WACs (PFC Alice Womack, PFC Eileen O\u27Reilly, PFC Ruth Alger, and PFC Lillian Gottlieb) proudly sewed on their first stripes; Captain Elbert S. Stallard and S/SGT Earle M. Fennimore are shown hauling a Christmas tree for the base; and Major Lloyd S. Smith offers his pre-war history and his rules for operating the PX.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1022/thumbnail.jp
June 5, 1944
Get PDFThe men of Dow Field wished a happy 25th anniversary of Colonel S.F. Lander and his wife; F/SGT Thomas Joseph Shanley is the week\u27s Dow Field\u27s Post Personality ; we see a photo and profile of Brigadier General Carl W. Connell; and we get a poem from CPL Archie Silver.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1052/thumbnail.jp
June 18, 1944
Get PDFF/SGT Dean Grove recalls his time stationed in Hawaii; CPL Sheldon Rosenthal submits a full-page sketch in honor of Father\u27s Day; we get two photographs of Colonel S.F. Landers and his wife; Know Your Officers presents Major John T. Pettee; and PFC Martin Hagopian provides the news of Unit No.4 and PFC Emil Salkay does so for Unit No.2.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1056/thumbnail.jp
O\u27er the Ramparts We Watch -- United States Army Air Forces.
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\u27Of Course I Can!
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Lower post or freeze: 340th Engineer Regiment on the Alaska Military Highway, 1942-1943
Get PDFThe 340th Engineer General Service Regiment was activated at Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, Wash., March 5, 1942. The nucleus was a cadre of seven officers and seventy-two enlisted men from the 18th Engineer Combat Regiment, who arrived on March 9.
A cadre of 62 enlisted men from Fort Francis E. Warren also arrived on March 9. The remainder of the officers and men came from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, during the latter part of March and the first part of April.
The commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Russel Lyons, arrived on March 27, 1942. Prior to that time the regiment was commanded by Captain John B. W. Corey, and later by Major Reinder F. Schilsky. The short period at Vancouver Barracks was spent in obtaining supplies and preparing for an overseas movement.
On the night of April 18, 1942, 35 officers and 883 enlisted men entrained for Seattle, Wash., and thence aboard the USS St. Mihiel to Skagway, Alaska, that famous boom town of \u2798, arriving there April 22. On April 23, the remainder of the regiment-10 officers and 343 enlisted men-entrained for Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada, and thence aboard the SS Prince George to Skagway, arriving on April 25.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1075/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Public Library Annual Report 1944
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