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November 29, 1943
Get PDFPFC Toni Romano and CPL Gladys Hoffman have the table ready for the Thanksgiving rush in the WAC\u27s Mess Hall; Know Your Officers introduces LT COL Bernhard T. Alm; Dow Field\u27s Post Personality features S/SGT Stanley J. Schaffer; and CPL Ted Johns dishes the latest news from the Quartermaster.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1088/thumbnail.jp
Seamen Needed --Apply U.S. Maritime Service -- [WSA, Training Organization, USMS Enrolling Office, 312 Fore Street, Portland 3, Maine]
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December 6, 1943
Get PDFAnnounces that Colonel Francis B. Valentine will be be leaving Dow Field for a new post and that Colonel S.F. Landers is the new commanding officer of Dow; the Dow Field\u27s Post Personality is S/SGT. Freddie Neumann of New Haven, Connecticut; and Know Your Officers\u27 introduces LT. Herbert J. Carter, a Springfield, Massachusetts, native.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1017/thumbnail.jp
February 8, 1943
Get PDFKnow Your Officers lets us know Chaplain Alfred James Carmody and LT Philip J. Gilinson; Dow Field\u27s Post Personality paints us a picture of PFC Carl Hessing; and we get a photograph and article about the base\u27s recently redecorated theatre.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1029/thumbnail.jp
November 1, 1943
Get PDFFormer heavy weight boxing champ Max Baer and his boxing brother Buddy Baer visit Dow Field; PVT Bob Loester is the week\u27s Dow Field\u27s Post Personality ; and T-5 Jane Competillo may have found suitor.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1076/thumbnail.jp
November 15, 1943
Get PDFSome of Dow Field\u27s soldiers paraded on Exchange Street to promote a benefit showing of This Is the Army ; SGT Steve Swetenko and CPL Ken Bishop entertained on base; Dow Field\u27s Post Personality profiles PVT Joseph Nyme; Know Your Officers presents Chaplain Harold R. Lutz; and CPL John Horodysky seems to have lost that sparkling smile recently (not specified why).https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1082/thumbnail.jp
October 4, 1943
Get PDFLT COL Thorne Deuel and Captain Raymond A. Dresher attend a ceremony dedicating the new gymnasium on the base; Captain Frank Comiskey celebrates 25 years of Army life; and Chaplain James Blakeney returns to Dow after 16 months service in Europe.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1091/thumbnail.jp
U.S. Marine Corps, Women\u27s Reserve: Camp Lejeune, N.C
Get PDFIt was World War II that brought to women their first opportunity to serve as an integral part of the Corps. The challenge came on February 13, 1943, with the announcement that the Marines had once more opened their ranks to women and now offered them full membership, including the chance for promotion to non-commissioned and commissioned grades and the privilege of serving in a wide variety of posts. Thus, scientific developments in war-making equipment, the global proportions of World War II, and the desperate need for a never-before-dreamed-of number of Marines, had made women\u27s role in the Corps the most vital and important in history.
In response to the challenging \u27\u27Free a Marine to Fight\u27\u27 women began to flock to the procurement offices.
Mrs. Ruth Cheney Streeter, of Morristown, New Jersey was appointed director of the new Women\u27s Reserve and commissioned a major in the Marine Corps. Long active in public affairs, a member of the New Jersey State Relief Council, New Jersey Commission on Interstate Cooperation, and New Jersey Board of Children\u27s Guardians, as well as former chairman of the Fort Dix, New Jersey, Citizens\u27 Committee for Army and Navy, she was eminently qualified to take up her new tasks.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1084/thumbnail.jp
For Their Future, Buy War Bonds
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Pour Des Jours Meilleurs, U.S. War Bonds
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