The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-06-29
With Our Men
In The Service

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Wit who = IN sardinia Sut DaWitt
Ehos flown, mara Than r,,tv combat
missions ,;nra ,,,.;vn,o. ovprseas ON
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ilot h..,. lately, bittino, if g, little rouoh
in nlacas hint on tha whole NOT foo
1had Ordinarily forty missions in tbe
Mediterranean theatre world have
,u+ mo h,cl, in tho statns but now
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last letter was dated .une H.
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Pvt Fos+o,. NJ Mann has comn1ated
his basic TRAINING At fine Army Air
hasa at Keesler Field. Nississippi. and
III where he has started his training
os q radio onera+or and mechanic in
the Air Co,ns. Pvt Mann has been in
tine service since April Is. 1914 He is
son of Mr., and Mrs. Milburn W.
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| Technical Sergeant Flovd R. Stiles,
% son of Dinsmore Stiles. of AL
bright. w, Va. and formerly emploved
rs y minor bv the Stanley Coal Com
many at Crellin is the section head of
the intelligence office at PAT
Thunderbolt fighter training station
somewhere in ENGLAND Sgt. Stiles
handles intelligence reports of all
kinds and the maintenance of records
OF all intelligence activity. A library
! H.. .. g. ;l4 l
oround officers is also under his ST.
pervision. Set. Stiles enlisted Septem-
Der, 1910, and was with the medical
corps for five months. Later. trans
ferred into the aviation engineers, he
worked as a surveyor in LAYING out
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Another transfer in Auoust 1912
took him into the air corps. A short
time later he arrived in ENGLAND.
So"
| CORPORAL Luther Beachv, with a
bomb squadron somewhere in Eng
l,l L, ,,,,,;++o, 40 .o,, +l,,+ 10 ro
ceives The Republican paper regular
w. He saws he has seen quite a bit
of England. | have been to London
and MANY other places of interest.
Am lust hoping now that this war is
over real soon. like all the other bows
are wishing and hoping" Cpl. Beachy
is son of Mr.. and Mrs. Galen
Beachv. of Grantsville.
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SISgt. James W. Junkins, Jr.. has
arrived safely in India. according to
word received bv his wife. now en-
ploved at the State Department in
Washington, d. c. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
,Junkins are from Altamont.
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SGT. Edward A. "Peck" Paugh,
nephew of Miss Katherine E. Shirer
and w. E. Shirer Of Oakland, has
been transferred from Memphis,
Tenn, to Camp Breckinlidge, XIV. He
is with an army band unit.
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! Walter T. Ashbv. Crellin. again in
the European theatre of war, sta
toned somewhere in England. writes
to give his impressions of the new
phase of activities over there. ere
ceiving an issue of The Republican
over here is like picking m A tele-
phone receiver and finding long
declared.
/ 81 find this trip much more inter-
esting than the first one in some
ways. especially since the second front
! has started. Everyone is doing his ut
most and very best. Every soldier is
going through something he has never
gone through before. AS they 90
across the last strip of water into
! France and up to the front lines thew
carry the thoughts of home with them,
Wondering if it is still the same; what
Mother and Dad are thinking of at
that very moment, They remember
the last furlough at home. All these
Things come before their ewes lust be-
sfore hitting the front like passing
Fparade.
Besides the Republican, the other
important thing is letters from home.
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