WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943
1939
Newly Weds—Capt. Kenneth S. Kenner-
ly.
LT. THOMAS G. ATLEE, JR., has just
returned from England and is stationed
at Camp Murphy, Florida. Mrs. Atlee is
withehim'.. . LT. JACK R. TINNEY,
Bowie, Texas, was recently awarded the
Air Medal and Purple Heart for action
as a Liberator pilot in a raid over Ger-
many. In a running fight, his plane was
attacked by 30 enemy craft, and his crew
was credited with downing 7 of them. His
address is APO 634, ¢% Postmaster, New
York City . . . . Mrs. Dan H. McLendon,
Rayre, La., writes that LT. DAN H. MC-
LENDON, APO 928, Unit 2, % Postmaster,
San Francisco, doesn’t find the tropics
too uncomfortable . . . . CAPT. HARRY
C. IGO, 25 MiriMar, Long Beach, is sad.
operations officer of a Ferrying Gp. On
a recent trip he saw ROY ECHERT, ’41,
who is pilot of a Pan-American plane.
Other Aggies there at Long Beach are:
CAPT. WOODY BELL, °’38; and BILL
WOLF, ’32; and LTS. JOHNNY LEFT-
WICH, ’41 and TOMMY KARNES, °’35
: . . CAPT. GEORGE W. FULTON is
with a Tng. Bn. at Camp Roberts, Calif
. . DAVID F. EATON, JR., Box 1621,
Pampa, has just completed one year of
service as asst. co. agr. agent there. . . .
LT. |HENRY BLAKE, JR., has been
somewhere in Africa since Dembr, 1942.
is address is APO 251, ¢% Postmaster,
ork City. His parents live at 1712
Dittman
Lt. Col. Henry
Lt. Col. Henry Pelly Dittman was recent-
ly promoted to that rank at the Herington,
Kans., Army Air Base. He is C. O. of the
base’s processing headquarters. Located
in the Philippines at the time of the
Jap attack, he was cited for outstanding
performances during the Philippine and
later campaigns. He was returned to the
States in May ’41. During his cadet days
at A. & M., he was a member of the
football team and Captain of the track
team. Col. and Mrs. Dittman have one
son. The Public Relations Office of his
Air Base calls him “Little Henry,” but
it’s a safe bet that when he reaches A. &
M., he will be “Little Pelly.”
LT. ROBERT L. DOSS, Whitewright,
Texas, who has been on maneuvers in
Tennessee, is temporarily a patient in
Camp Forrest, Tennessee hospital, awaiting
removal to a general hospital for special
treatment of a current illness. Friends
can write him at Box 61, Whitewright.
MAJOR LUTHER E. JOHNSON is in
the Department of Electricity, U. S. Mili-
tary Academy, West Point, N. Y.
LT. J. S. MORRIS is located at Cor-
pus Christi, Texas, where he receives his
mail tin Box 1844. . . . . .! October. 16
was a big day for CAPT. SCHLAFLI, JR.,
— not only was it his birthday but another
daughter was born to him and Mrs.
Schlafli. At the present time, Capt. Schlafli
is on maneuvers in Louisiana . . . .
CAPT. KENNETH S. KENNERLY, APO
856, ¢ Postmaster, New York., writes
that at the present he and CAPT. GLENN
H. REYNOLDS, ’41, are the only Aggies
at his post. He also made a belated report
of his marriage on Nov. 8, 1941.
LT. DICK TODD attached to the U. S.
Navy Pre-flight School, University of
Jowa, suffered a broken jaw in the tight
lowa Pre-flight and Notre Dame football
game. Before his injury Todd turned in
an amazing game. The Crowell flash
has been a great football player in what-
ever league he played; Crowell highschool,
Texas A. & M., Washington Red Skins,
‘and Iowa Pre-flight.
LT. RICHARD R. WHITE was a recent
visitor in the Association Office, having
just returned from 20 months in the South
Pacific. He flew from the Figi Islands,
and will be sent to Santa Ana, Calif., for
air corps training . . . . . CAPT. W.
A. “BILL” ORTH is stationed at Camp
Tyson, Tennessee. He reports Major A. B.
Stevens, formerly with the Petroleum
Eng. Dept., at College, as being Commander
of one of the training units there.
WADE W. WHITE has been promoted
to Captain at the CAAF, Bomb. Hdaq.,
Carlsbad, N. M. His home is Winters,
Texast ~ .
CPL. FRED M. “ZED” COSTON is
with an Airdrome Sadn. at the A. A. B.,
Herington, Kansas. ‘Zed’ will be remem-
bered as a member of the football squads
of his day.
© §/SGT. BRUNO E. SCHROEDER is
with a Regtl. Hdgs. Co. of the Prcht. Inf,
and receives his mail through APO 472,
N. Y., N. Y. As a student at A. & M.
Bruno was a member of the Aggie foot-
ball team. 1 940
Newly Weds Lt. Harry Bryan Johnson,
W. P. Walker
Proud Papa—Lt. (jg) Albert Wm. Clay.
CAPT. BRANDON C. SMITH, Electra,
has returned to the United States after
over 300 hours of combat duty, mostly in
the Middle East. He is now stationed at
Boise, Idaho, 1114 Pueblo. He reports his
mariage last May to Ann Barron of
Hartford, Conn. He is now an instructor
pilot and engineering officer for the B-24
School, Mount Home, Idaho. A brother,
LT. TRAVIS J. SMITH, is a Japanese
prisoner of war, captured in Java. Another
brother, LT. G. ELMO SMITH, is a pilot
at the Pyote AAB, 19th Bomb Gp., and
two otaher brothers are in the Navy.
Captain Brandon Smith reports seeing
Aggies all over the Middle East, and sends
regards to his A. & M. friends.
CAPT. ARCHIE M. MCFARLAND has
been promoted to the rank of Major at
the Carlsbad Army Air Field, Carlsbad,
N. M., where he is base materiel officer.
He is the son of Mrs. A. McFarland, 137
W. French Pl, San Antonio . . . . PVT.
LILLO M. BAKER is with an E. T. Bn,
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He was formerly
at 2241 S. 1th, Abilene . . . . LT. VER-
NEARD W. HUDGINS’ address is: APO
12453, ¢% Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Mrs. Hudgins lives at 2624 Kavanaugh
Blvd., Little Rock, Ark. +. CAPTAIN
J. D. HANCOCK, CE, is Assistant A-3,
2nd Engr. Avn. Unit Trng. Center, Fort
Wright, Washington. Both he and the
TEXAS AGGIE would like to know the
address of Classmate ARNOLD L. DUBE,
who is requested to report . . . . MAJOR
RAYMOND P. KETTLESON, formerly of
Houston, is at APO 634, ¢ Postmaster,
New York City . . . . CAPT. S. H. BOLIN
and CAPT. HAROLD L. HALL are at the
San Antonio, Texas, Arsenal Fy
CAPT. J. E. COPELAND’s new address
is 1589 Michigan Blvd., Lincoln Park , 25,
master Corps, attended OCS in Australia
and was commissioned second lieutenant
last June. His wife is making her home
at Waxahachie . . . .LT. JAY ROBBINS,
Coolidge, a Lightning pilot, has been ac-
credited recently with destroying seven
Japanese Zeros in two engagements in
New Guinea and ever the Huon Gulf....
E. G. CHAPMAN, P. O. Box 14, New Bos-
ton, is planning to be at Klye Field,
Thanksgiving . . . . MORRIS E. “POP”
WILLIAMS, Box 824, New Boston, Texas
is working with the Texarkana Ordnance
Cente rthere.
CAPTAIN ALVIN A. PRICE is at
Headquarters, Third at. 362nd Inf., Camp
Adair, Oregon . CAPTAIN H. G.
HOWARD, JR., was promoted to that
rank in June and is now attending OAC
N. 27, Fort Sill, Okla. . . . DR. GEORGE
H. BRUMBLE is now serving with U. S.
Army Vet Corps in the China-Burma-
India theatre, according to word from
his wife who lives at 2937 Brook Rd., Rich-
mond, Va. . . . CAPT. EARLE W. AL-
THE TEXAS AGGIE
DRICH is in Ireland and gets his mail
APO 2, ¢% Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Mrs. Aldrich is living at 229 Palm Drive,
San Antonio..
R. WAYNE DURHAM who was formerly
connected with furniture companies in
Bryan and Galveston is now located at
2015 College Ave., Beaumont, where he
is claim adjustor for the Texas Employers
Casualty Co.
CAPTAIN JOHN A. BANISTER, now
stationed at Ft. Dix, New Jerséy, was a
recent visitor in the office. He is in Co.
K., 337th Inf, APO 85.
LT. JOHN T. DALE, is with a Depot
Repair Sq., APO 635, New York, N. Y.
Twins were recently born to Lt. and Mrs.
Dale in Dallas . . . .CAPT. CURTIS A.
KIZER, Dallas who began flight training
at Cal-Aero, Calif., in Feb., ’41, received
his wings and commission at Stockton
Field, Calif., and, before going overseas
in Sept. ’42, was in training and maneu-
vers with airborne trcops, was based at
McClelland Field, Calif., Battle Creek,
Mich., ard Camp Benning, Ga. In North
Africa and later in Sicily, he was awarded
the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clusters, re-
spectively, earned by glider-towing opera-
tions wit ha troop carrier group. His du-
ties at present consist of flying supplies
to the army in Italy and bringing back
wounded men to base hospitals, and he
has more than 800 operational hours to
his credit . . . . . SEC. LT. THOMAS
MARION COX, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.
V. Cox of Garrett, Texas, is at the Let-
terman General Hospital in San Francis-
co and his condition is improving. He re-
ceived shrapnel wounds in his right arm
a broken right leg and foot, and other in-
juries in New Guinea last August. He went
overseas as a sergeant in the Quarter-
master Corps’: ire aot ve te ine ve 4 AUSTIN
G. SCOTT, 4817 Montrose Blvd., Houston,
has been with the Harris Co. Probation
Dept. since June 1, 1941. His present title
is Supervisor of Foster Home. Other Ag-
gies working with him are PAUL L.
STEVENS, ’42, 1139 Winston, Houston ; R.
F. MITCHELL, ’33, 2306 Delafield, Hous-
ton, and J. K. WILHELM, ’42, with the
Bayland Home for Boys, Webster, Texas.
Cajsi. Robert A. Henderson
Capt. Robert A. Henderson, Eastland,
was recently promoted to that rank at
Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio. He re-
ceived his degree in Ag. Ed., and entered
the air corps in Jan. 1942. He is married
and has attended the Pratt and Whitney
School at Hartford, Conn.
The following addresses were taken from
current correspondence from ‘40 Aggies;
PVT. JAMES G. DENTON, Co. H & S,
Bks. T-3928, 170th Engr. Combat Bn.
Camp Beale, Calif.; CAPT. B. G. BRY-
SON, Ft. Worth Quartermaster Depot ; LT,
W. H. AKARD, JR., APO 31, % Post
master, San Francisco; CAPT. CLAY-
TON A. BIRD, APO 887, Ha. ASF, New
York City; MAJOR J. N. BIRON, APO
958, ¢% Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. ;
LT. R. W. BOOKMAN, APO 528, % Post-
master, New York, home address: 1229
West 4th, Freeport, Texas.
LTS. FARRIS IVIE and WALTER
HATCH are together in the Infantry, APO
928, ¢ Postmaster, San Francisco . . . .
Mrs. Joe R. White writes from 3826 Maple-
wood, Dallas, 5, that CAPT. JOE R.
“JO JO” WHITE'S address is APO 885,
¢ Postmaster, New York, INL Yt oF de
CAPT. JAMES S. CRITZ is with an
Arm’d FA Bn., APO 251, ¢% Postmaster,
New York . . . LT. DEE S. FINLEY,
JR., is at Moore Field . . . .LT. JAMES
M. CONNOR, Midland, is at Ellington
Field. . CAPT. JOHN P. COUCH is
a flight commander at Williams Field,
Chandler, Ariz . LT. ERNEST C.
PARKER, JR., San Antonio, was recently
promoted to Captain. . hie CAPT:
CHARLES R. MCINTIRE, Brownsville,
has been recently promoted to Major . . ..
LT. FRANK W. PERRIN is with an
Engr. Regt., APO 729, ¢% Postmaster,
Seattle, Wash. . . . HERBERT A. DEAN,
Box 830, McAllen, Texas, is again over-
seas serving as an Ensign in the Navy
: ROBERT M. TATUM, 1837 Col-
quitt, Houston 6, is in the accounting
dept. of the Shell Oil Co. there .
SEC. LT. JOHN W. WOOD is in the
Pilot’s Advisory Service, stationed at CAA
Control Center, Memphis, Tenun. Munici-
pal Airport. After Nov. 25, his address
will be CAA Flight Control Tng. Det.
Room 201, 89-01 Main St., Flushing, L. I,
N.Y. ...LT. JIM M. RIDLEHUBER re-
cently received his commission as Meteor-
ologist in the Air Corps at Calif. Inst. of
Tech. and U. C. L. A., and is now assigned
to the weather station at Childress, Tex-
as . . .. CAPT. JAMES F. GROTE, APO
43, ¢, Postmaster, San Francisco, has been
in th Southwst Pacific for ovr a yar;
New Zealand, New Caledonia, New He-
brides, Guadalcanal, Russell Islands, and
New Georgia having been the main stops.
His present whereabouts is unknown . . ..
LT. PERCY B. BENNETT has been in
the combat zone in the South Pacific for al-
most a year. His mailing address is APO
25, © Postmaster, San Francisco. CAPT.
JAMES M. “PAWNEE’ BROWNING has
the same APO number and is C. O. of the
Regiment in which Lt. Bennett serves.
After leaving Hawaii late in ’42, Capt.
Browning has been through the Battles
of Guadalcanal and New Georgia. Mrs.
Browning lives at Lolita, Texas.
LT. QUENTIN S. BULLOCK has been
flying on an Air Transport Command
route since March, but has seen few
Aggies in Central Africa. His address is
APO 608, % Postmaster, Miami, Fla. . . .
LT. PAUL M. CARROLL, JR., APO 182-
A Unit 14, Los Angeles, writes: ‘Finished
two months of La. maneuvers the first
of Sept. and immediately came out here
to the Desert Training Center. I am at
Camp Iron Mountain, and life is not much
different than was life on maneuvers.”
pA CAPT. W. J. BUTLER received
that promotion in May and returned to the
states in July for flight training. He is
now in primary at Box 981, Phoenix ....
LT. BENN A. GLEASON is now in desert
maneuvers in Calif., serving as regimental
gas officer. He completed a course in
Chemical Warfare at Edgewood Arsenal,
Md., in August . «CAPT. JOHN C.
ZERCHER, Barnes St., Belair, Md., is
stationed in Baltimore with the Field
Office of Office Chief, CWS. . . . PFC.
J. ARNOLD SHAW, 3732 Granada St.,
Dallas, 5, is attending Adjutant General
Dept. Army Adm. School No. 8 at Washing-
ton & Jefferson College in Washington,
Pa. S/SGT. GEORGE W. SMITH,
Dallas, was recently on furlough to Dallas
and Bryan. He is an aerial photographer
with a bombing squadron and has been
in the Southwest Pacific for 18 months.
He has recently received the Silver Star
and the Air Medal for gallantry in action
« Beildecar (CHARLES -H. . JOHNSON, F 2 /c,
Divine ,has been assigned to a ship, % Fleet
Post Office, San Francisco . . . . DEXTER
L. HODGE, Bryan, has beer promoted
from major to lieutenant colonel. He was
one of eight men to receive the Dis-
tinguished Flying Cross for service in the
recent air raid on the Ploesti Oil Fields
in Rumania. He previously was awarded
two Oak Leaf Clusters to his Air Medal
hinds ROBERT D. WELLS, son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wells, Graham, Tex-
as, graduated recently from the Naval
Air Training Center, Corpus Christi, and
was commissioned a lieutenant in the TU.
S. Marine Corps Reserves . . . . CAPT.
WINFRED W. BROW.... and LTS. JOHN
E. HARRIS, °’42, and CHARLES W.
HODGES, ’42, have finished transition
training on B-17’s and are now rated
1st pilots. He is at Lockbourne A. A. B.,
Columbus 17 . MAJOR CHARLES
R. MCINTIRE, 161 Fullerton Ave., New-
burgh, ‘N. Y., received his promotion in
October and is acting Group Commander
at Stewart Field, West Point, N. Y. . ..
LT. ROGER W. GARRISON has been at
Nashville Army Air Center more than
a year . CAPT. W. H. OSWALT,
who has been stationed at Ft. Belvoir, Va.,
since entering the service, has been trans-
ferred to a school of military government
at Ft. Custer, Mich. Prior to going on ac-
tive duty, he was asst. City Manager of
Dallas LT. GEO. H. BRUMBLE,
JR., has a new address: APO 628, 9% Post-
master, New York City. Mrs. Brumble is
at 2937 Brook Rd., Richmond 22, Va.
IBREY T. BONNETTE, Box 294, Can-
ton, Miss., is with the Carter Oil Co. He
would like to hear from any Aggies in that
vielnity’ 0 wa JACAPT CARROL, [C:
MARTIN, Camp Berkeley, APO 262, re-
ports just returning from maneuvers in
Tennessee . . . . ROBERT C. WADE, JR.,
Compania, Mexicana: de Aviacion, Boliver
21, Mexico, D. F., writes for the address
of D. P. SIMPSON, last heard of at
WCAFTC, 1104 West 8th, Santa Ana, Ca-
hg... . LT. VERNEARD W.-HUD-
GINS, APO 633, % Postmaster, New York.
N. Y. is doing his part over there, accord
ing" to word : from ‘his wife. . i'n.
CAPT. HERMAN “BUDDY” A. BORNE-
FELD, JR., is in North Africa and re-
ports that it is not too bad. He gets his
mail through APO 512, New York, N. Y
LT. HERBERT L. F. “RED” DOERR,
JR., has received the Silver Star for out-
standing performance as Bn. Artillery ob-
server in the Sicilian campaign. His ad-
dress is Haqrs. FA, APO 9, % Post-
master, New York City. Mrs. Doerr is
living in Carmine, Texas.
The War Department has just recently
announced the promotion of AUSTIN
ALBERT LUCKENBACH to CAPTAIN.
A. W. CLAY, JR., has recently been
promoted to Lt. (jg) and is stationed at
the U. S. Naval Training Station, Great
Lakes, Ill.
ALVIN W. COWLES was given a med-
ical discharge several months ago from
the army and is now with the Accounting
Dept. of the Federal Reserve Bank in
San Antonio. His mailing address is 908
Burleson, 2, San Antonio.
SECOND LT. HOWARD A. DAVIS is
a prisoner of the German government,
according to a message received by his
mother, Mrs. R. L. Davis, of Houston.
At the time he entered the service, in
December, 1941, he was associated with the
Texas Employment Service, at Bryan,
Texas. He was a co-pilot of a Flying
Fortress and had been serving overseas
since August.
LT. LEON “JIGGS” N. MANILOFF,
APO 27, San Francisco, Calif., reports
seeing TOMMIE HENDERSON, 41 some-
time ago and wants some news about LT.
HENRY NAYLOR, ’41, last heard of as
getting his mail at APO 24, San Francisco,
Calif. . . . L. L. NACHLINGER, Execu-
tive Assistant, Gunite Concrete and Con-
struction Co., 1301 Woodswether Rd.,
Kansas City, Mo., has just returned from
a job in Canada and is leaving soon for
a.
Newly Weds—Lt. (jg) Jerry Sam Scott.
Proud Papas—Julius J. Post, Lt. Ralph
Parker.
Silver Taps—Lt. (jg) George Law-
rence Leger, 1st. Lt. John E. MeCrary,
1st Lt. Clyde W. Beatty, Jr.
LT. B. E. LUDEMAN has been with the
90th Training Carrier Squadron, at Seda-
lia, Mo. It is not known whether he is
still’ at that location now or not . ... .
CAPT. R. W. ALEXANDER now gets his
mail at Hgs. 9th Armd. Div., APO 259,
Camp Polk, La. . . . 2ND. LT. J. R. MC
COY is no wtaking bombardied training at
Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell, N. M.,,
having completed a course in navigation at
Hondo, Texas. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil McCoy of Albany, Texas.
MAJOR H. REED FAUST followed LT.
0. L. FRANK NEWNAM'’S ’31, suggestion
that every Aggie send in an extra contri-
bution upon receiving a promotion to the
last letter when he received his MAJORI-
TY on September 28. Major Faust would
like to have the address of H. H. LIEB-
HAFSKY, ’40—aynone knowing the where-
abouts of him, please report to the Asso-
ciation Office, and to Major Faust, Ha.
(RE) 14th Arm’d Div., APO 446, % Post-
master, Nashville, Tenn.
CAPT. HARDY N. HAY, JR., Waco, was
a recent visitor after returning from an
extended period of service in the S. W.
Pacific. He is in the U. S. Marine Corps
Air Force and participated in combat
duty in the Solomons and other , active
areas in the Pacific.
CAPT. ROY W. GILLETTE is now at
the Univ. of Maine, Orono, Maine, after
having spent 23 months in the South Pa-
cific. Immediately upon his return to the
states, he was first sent to Camp Davis,
N. C., thence to the Univ. of Maine, to
instruct ROTC. He reports LT. L. H.
CONNEVELY, ’42, being up there with
him.
The season’s first Christmas Card came
from LT. TOM L. POWER, APO 201, %
Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. He is still
in the Cavalry LL.B. YAR.
BROUGH, with the Engr., Unit 2, APO
928, ¢ Postmaster, San Francisc, says
THE AGGIE arrives at his address about
three months late . . . . LT. JAMES E.
VANCE is wit ha Bomb. Sqdn., APO
520, % Postmaster, New York City . . . .
A. T. JONES, JR. lives at 2037 Lexing-
ton Ave., Houston was LIT. (CURTIS
E. PARKER, formerly at 1200 S. Palm
Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, Calif., is
now at APO 95, ¢% Postmaster, Los An-
geles . . . . ENSIGN ROBERT H. SHAN-
NON is now stationed in Trinidad, B. W.
I., and receives his mail at 1530 N. Law-
rence St. Phila., Pa. SGT. J. RO-
GERS THYSELL was called into service
March, 1942, and received his preliminary
training at Fort Butner, N. C. and finish-
ed at Fitsimmons Hospital, Denver. He is
now stationed in Iran. He is with a Field
Hospital-APO 783, New York, N. Y. . ..
LT. RICHARD J. JEPPESEN is in the
Marines serving in the Pacific. His ad-
dress is——Service Battalion, ¢% Fleet
Postoffice, San Francisco, Calif.
The Distinguished Flying Cross has been
awarded LT. JOHN L. FALLWELL, JR.
son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Fallwell, 5919
Richmond, Dallas, for meritorious achieve-
ment while participating in an aerial
flight in the Middle East theater of war
on July 17.
MAJOR RAYMOND P. KETELSON,
Houston, is commander of a Flying Fort-
ress sqdn. of th Eighth Air Force some-
where in England. Recently his squadron
adopted a small orphaned English child,
and named a Fortress in her honor, Gloria
Diane. Funds have been provided to care
for Gloria for the next five years. Mrs.
Ketelson lives at 947 Euclid, Houston ....
LT. GEORGE M. FUERMANN is a Division
Publicity Relations Officer, 95th Infantry
Division, APO 95, ¢ Postmaster,
Angeles. He reports many other Aggies
in that Division and sends regards to his
many A. & M. friends.
CAPT. A. G. WILSON, JR., and LT.
A. H. BEVILLE served with the F. A. in
the Sicilian Campaign a CAPT.
ATLAN M. CITZLER is with an Engr.
Bomb. Regt., APO 698, ¢% Postmaster,
New York City . . . . A. WAYNE MAD-
DOX is County Agent at Dumas. He mar-
ried Miss Benona Oxford in June . . . .
LT. IRVING A. GLASSER is assigned
to the Staff and Faculty of the Ordnance
School at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.,
where he is an instructor in the Anti-
Aircraft Time Control equipment.
LT. WM. F. SILVEY writes from Aus-
tralia that his brother, FRED J. SIL-
VEY, ’37, is now a Major in the F. A. in
Europe and that he recently had a letter
from his grandfather, WM. W. GENTZEN
’90, San Antonio, in which he said: “The
Fighting Aggie sare tops.” Lt. Wm. Sil-
vey’s address is APO 922, % Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calif . . . . W. K. GRAN-
VILLE is asst. county agent at San Angelo.
He was formerly at Ft. Worth, 2632 Wil-
kinson.
LT. R. J. SULLIVAN, stationed at Camp
Bowie, is the proud father of Richard J.
Sullivan, Jr.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK W. HENSEL,
JR., has just recently been promoted to
that rank. He is stationed at Fort Sill, in
the 349th Field Artillery.
1ST. LT. NETUM A. STEED, Bix 99,
Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. would
like to contact any Aggies in that area.
The following addresses were taken from
recent correspondence from ’41 Aggies;
R. E. WOODS, APO 90, % Postmaster,
Los Angeles; F. S. DENLER, JR., AMM
2/e, Box 249 EMQ, Naval Air Station,
Corpus Christi; LT. ALVIN H. PARKER,
APO 251, ¢ Postmaster, New York City;
JJEFF MONTGOMERY, AAF Staff
Course, % Haq. AAF, Washington, D. C.;
CAPT. JAMES R. PUCKETT, and LTS.
DAVID B. YARBROUGH, GUY G. CRAW-
FORD, GEORGE K. CARNES, and CHAS.
R. MCDANIEL are on Imot 2. APO 928,
¢% Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif; LT.
CLARENCE D. BRASWELL, APO 957, %
Postmaster, San Francisco; ENS. OTIS J.
HIEBELER, MTB No. 24, Ses. II, %
Fleet Post Office, San Francisco; THOMAS
G. BLACKENEY, Blackland Army Air
Field, Waco; LT. L. RUSSELL HAR-
DAGE, APO 525, % Postmaster, New
York; PFC. MONROE M. ECHOLS, 3524
Chateau, Waco; CPL. WARREN K. CO-
KER, APO 928, Unit 1, % Postmaster,
3an Francisco; LT. FRANCISCO S. PLA-
NADEBALL, APO 836, ¢% Postmaster,
New Orleans; LT. AUSTIN W. RO-
BERTS, Engr. Sect., A. S. F. Depot,
Memphis, Tenn. ; and J. FRANK SIMMON,
3904 Day, Houston.
“Bill”
F. Silvey
1st Lt. Wm. “Bill” F. Silvey is somewhere
in Australia with an Air Depot Group,
1st. Lt. Wm.
APO 922, ¢% Postmaster, San Francisco,
Calif. He was in Battery E while at A.
& M., and is a younger brother of MA-
JOR FRED J. SILVEY, ’37, now serving
in North Africa. He is a grandson of Mr.
W. J. GENTZEN, ’90, of San Antonio.
Another grandson of Mr. Gentzen is BER-
NARD GENTZEN HORNER, a student at
A. &M.
WILLIAM J. FALLWELL entered the
Navy two mouths ago, and is in the
Materiel Division at Waldson Field, Corpus
Christi. He is proud of his brothers; LT.
JOHN FALLWELL, JR., ’40, who recently
was awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross for participation in aerial flight
in the Middle East theater, and LT. FRANK
X. FALLWELL, on duty with an Engr.
Avn. Bn. at Richmond, Va. ..... CAPT.
HUBERT C. “HUB” JOHNSON, JR., APO
633, ¢% Postmaster, New York, N. Y. is
still in the United Kingdom and reports
that CAPT. CELLA, who was with the
F A in Motor Transportation, is now a
full Colonel with the Enghth Air Force,
General Staffs Corps. He also says that
he hears occasionally from his ex-room-
mate, LT. ROERT V. “FORFEIT-DOG-
HOUSE-BOB” MYERS, Harlingen. He was
last flying with the Artillery Obsn. section
of. the" Seventh' Armyfiei:. uni. = FS)
DENGLER, JR., Box 249, EMQ, Naval
Air Station, Corpus Christi, is now in-
structing cadets in ground school work
J. CAPT. HOWARD “JUPE’} ALLEN,
Beaumont, has been in North Africa for
five months and recently ran into his
Aggies buddy,’ ‘CAPT. LH.% LL." “RED?
DOERR, Carmine, in Sicily. Another Beau-
mont Aggie in this theater of war is
CAPT. PAUL LOWRY LT. (ig)
JOHN H. LARSON is assigned to a ship.
% Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. . ..
Receiving a medical discharge from the
Army, W. R. “BILL’ ELLIS has been
traveling on the West coast for the Coca-
Cola Co. for about 15 months, where he is
in the Bottlers Service Dept.,, P. ©.
Drawer 1734, Atlanta, Ga. He reports
seeing LT. (jg) LEE CAMPBELL, who is
stationed at a Naval Air Corps base near
Portland, Ore. C. L. HERRMANN
is with the recently activated medical
unit at Southwestern Foundation, Dallas
aa . LT. BERT COOK, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Cook, Buckner Blvd., Dallas,
was recently promoted to captain. He is
stationed at Ft. Belvoir, Va., with an en-
gineering corps. . LT. WALLACE E.
CRAIN, Dallas, was recently promoted to
captain. He is at Ellington Field . . . .
CAPT. NATE H. SNYDER and LT. PAU
C. WRIGHT are in the 489th Engr. W. 5.
Bn. at Camp Swift, Texas . . . . LTS. R.
B. CASHION, H. E. MCDONALD, and
W. L. PORTER recently received their
commissions as Meteorologists in the Air
Corps at Calif. Inst. of Tech. and U. C.
L. A. Lt. Cashion is assigned to the
weather station aa Childress; Lt. Porter
is at the weather station at Bryan; and
Lt. McDonald is at Elligton Field at the
weather station SAIS JOAN LA,
NANCE is C. O. of the Alabama School
of Trades at Gadsden, Ala., an activity
training aireraft mechanics for the Mobile
Air Service Command 3 LT. JOE
“W. EVANS, JR., has been in the Army
for a couple of months, and his address is
Co. A, 142nd Engineers, Combat Bn., APO
411, Camp Gruber, Okla. Mrs. Evans and
their son are in Donna, Texas . . . .
MAJOR C. B. “BRIT” CHRISTIAN, with
an Engr. Combat Bn., APO 4523, ¢% Post-
master, New York City, writes from
somewhere in India that LT. FRED W.
BRUNSON, ’43, was aboard the ship over
. ++» CAPT... JOHN O. GIBSON, JR. is
with an FA Bn., APO 201, ¢% Postmaster,
San Francisco. His wife lives at 120 Nor-
mandy Ave., San Antonio . . . . LT. (jg)
THOMTS E. LAIN has been in the Navy
since June, 1941, and is assigned to a ship,
¢, Fleet Post Office, Seattle, Wash. . . .
LT. ALEXANDER H. BEVILLE, APO
758, ¢ Postmaster, New York, has been
overseas for nine months. Landing at
Casa Blanca, he has been in on the in-
vasion of Sicily from the first. “We have
seven Aggies in our Regiment,” he reports
.... CAPT. JAMES M. WARNER, Box
121, Kelly Field, San Antonio, is a Test
Pilot there. His residence address there is
209: W. ‘Courtland, Apt. . 6... -.1.. CAPT.
WM. C. “PETE” GARDNER, APO 763,
¢% Postmaster, New York, has been in
Africa more than a year . ... DR. PAUL
P. SOVA receives mail at 470 McLean
Blvd., Paterson, N. J. He is enjoying his
small-animal practice in northern N.
and is also State Veterinary Bacteriologist,
associated with the State Department of
Health, State of N. J. . . . CAPT. ADDI-
SON G. WILSON, JR., APO 758, % Post-
master, New York, writes that the follow-
ing Aggies are with him in Sicily, having
been through the entire campaign to-
gether: CAPT. “PAT” LEDBETTER, MA-
JOR W. C. CHAMBERLAIN, ’33, CAPT.
H. C. “CHAMP” SMITH, ’35, CAPT. J.
W. “HOOT” GIBSON, ’35, and CAPT. J.
J. BAGGETT, ’35 Having been
wounded in Africa, LT. LOCKETT
BROOKS MARTIN was sent back oo the
States last July. After spending two
months in MecCloskey Hospital, Temple,
Texas, he is now an instructor at Ft.
Knox, Ky. The Martins live at the Lion
Hotel, Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
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LT. CHARLES D. LACEY, formerly of
Centerville, Texas, is now a navigator in
the Army Air Forces, and has been in
foreign service since March. His address is
APO 662, ¢% Postmaster, New Orleans,
La. . . . LT. JAMES A. PUCKETT, who
has been stationed at Ft. Belvoir, Va., re-
cently visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
I. F. Watkins, 628 Elsbeth, Dallas. He is
now in Harvard University for further
training . W. E. SCOTT, formerly
at Bonham, Texas, has been transferred
to New Boston. He is with the Soil Con-
servation Service and is Work Unit Leader
for Bowie County . . . . LT. J. BURNEY
LIGON, USMCR, Dahlgren, Va., has been
with the Marines about a year . . . .
S/SGT. JOHN HUNTER is at the 27th
Medical Hospital at Ft. Lewis, Wash. ...
ENS. G. W. CRAWFORD, Kerens, Texas,
received his commission from Colum-
sia U., Special Training in Amphibious
Landing Craft at Little Creek, Va. He par-
icipated in the Sicilian and Italian inva-
sions, landing in Africa in June . . . .
CPL. HARVEY H. KING is working with
he Training Aid Reproduction Shop on
the Carpenters’ Belt Line at Camp Wol-
cers, Texas . . . . HARMON W. JONES,
Box 37, New Boston, Texas, is secretary
of the Bowie County ACA, having trans-
ferred there from Upshur County . . :
CAPT. R. M. DAVIS is company comm-
ander of a Chemical Co. at Camp Gordon,
Ga. He reports having had several letters
from CAPT. F. R. “DICK” LEWIS, who
has seen much action in N. Africa and
Sicily . . . . LT. CHARLES A. SCHAE-
FER, La Grange, Texas, is with an Arm’d
Inf. Bn. of the 20th Armored Div. at
Camp Campbell, Ky. He has just com-
pleted 3 months of maneuvers in Tenn.
as an umpire and one month guarding
prisoners of ‘war ‘in Indiana‘. . . .
0. M. WEAVER, 908 N. Main, Bonham,
Texas, is chief inspector at the Bonham
plant of the Southwest Pump Co. . . .
CAPT. J. WATT PAGE, JR., writes that
he is proud to be a member of the 36th
Division that spearheaded the Allied land-
ing at Salerno. Serving six years with
the 142nd Inf., Texas National Guard,
he was second lieutenant when the Nation-
al Guard was mustered into service in
November 1940. Promotion to captain
came in 1942 at Camp Bowie, and he went
to N. Africa as commander of an Inf. Co.
. .+« LT. CHARLES D. BERRY, JR, is at
Hq. & Has. Btry., Camp Davis, N. C. His
home address is Greenville . . . . CAPT.
HERBERT W. CUMMING of Weatherford,
pilot and flight commander in a Thunder-
bolt squadron based in England, has been
missing in action since a Nov. 7 sweep
over Northern France. He was employed
by the State Highway Dept. in Ft. Worth
when he entered the Army Air Forces in
December, 1940. He received his wings
at Luke Field, Phoenix, Ariz., in Aug.
1941, and served as an instructor there
two years. He has been overseas since
September . . . . LT. (jg) J. S. SCOTT
is with a Naval Air Transport Sadn.,
Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kans. His wed-
ding is reported in the “MR. AND MRS.”
column of this issue TY. H.
GRASSHOFF is with a Sig. Bn. at APO
929, ¢% Postmaster, San Francisco . . . .
LT. FRANK 'L. “PANCHO” .THOMP-
SON, whose home address is Box 2524,
Houston, reports that he is lucky enough
to be located on the same SW Pacific
island with several other Aggies: DAVE
YARBROUGH, CHAS. BROWN, ’40, and
DAN MCCLENDON, ’39,
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Central Section of the Re-
nts Branch at Wright Field, Day-
them. He extends best wishes and a “Hello” Re
to his friends scattered all over the world
Ho FIRST LT. LONZO M. GOBER
is with the Wing Maintenance Eng. Seec.,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle,
Me. He is assigned to the North Atlantic
Wing . . RICHARD H. KINKEL,
3715 Mt. Everest, Dallas, 11, reports of
his cousin, L. A. DAHMAN, 40: “Among
the hundreds of Aggies fighting in the
South Pacific. “Dusty” joined the Navy
in 1939, got his baptism of fire at Pearl
Harbor, and has been fighting ever
since.” i. 3. "CAPT... W. R.. WERNLY
and LT. THEODO E. SABA are among
the Aggies in North Africa. Mrs. Wern-
ly lives at 2523 Second Ave., Dailas, 10
CAPT. JAMES H. ALLEN, JR,
APO 391, ¢% Postmaster, New York City,
rubbed shoulders with LT. HERBERT
L. F. DOERR, ’40, recently awarded the
Silver Star . CAPT. SHERMAN
S. “Q-BALL” GRAY, back from 18 months
FRED CORZIER PRICE re-
ed that promotion, according
EO [ad
Pacific where he has been on duty fo
JR., was promoted to the rank of CAP-
TAIN in September and been overseas
seven months. He is with troop carrier
ca, Sicily and Italy.
of the first to drop paratr
and Italy. He gets his mail through APO
760, % Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Mrs.
Blake is living in Lufkin.
LT. ROY J. CHAPPELL, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Chappell, Kaufman, writes
that he is studying German’ and Italian
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JAMES C. ROMINGER, APO 251, %
Postmaster, New York City, reports the
following Aggies in his section of Italy:
MAJOR SATCH ELKINS, ’33, and LTS.
CHARLES R. BURNEY, ’39, HENRY
FLAKE, ’39, GABE D. ANDERSON, and
ROBERT ADAMS, 740 vs.» LWni% SGT.
uated recently from the A. A.
is now stationed at Bergstrom
tin, with the Troop Carrier
flying C-47’s. He would like to
JOE FLOYD, ’41, AD WILSO
BRAZIEL, ’42, A. P. BOLDING,
JAMES C. YEARY, JR., APO 928, Unit| EARL SHIELDS, ’41. o Orin 3 .
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