Dale County AlArchives News.....News Of Our Men and WOMEN IN UNIFORM September 27, 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Christine Thacker CGT714@AOL.com March 11, 2005, 8:29 pm The Southern Star September 27, 1944 Reprinted from The Southern Star Sept. 8, 2004 pg 4B. News Of Our Men and WOMEN IN UNIFORM 60 Years Ago, Sept. 7, 1944 AWARDED EXPERT INF. BADGE IN PACIFIC SOMEWHERE IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC AREA-Major General Ralph C. Smith announced that Pfc. Harvey R. Taylor, son of Mrs. J. W. Taylor has been awarded the Expert Infantryman Badge at a base somewhere in the' Central Pacific area. Pfc. Taylor is 22 years old and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Taylor of., Ariton, Ala. The attainment of this badge and high honor attests to Pfc. Taylor's physical stamina and his proficiency in shooting and all aroUnd infantry training. E. W. Williams, JR., KILLED IN FRANCE Mr. and MrS. John F. Moseley received word last week that their grandson, E.W. Williams, Jr., had been killed in action in France. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs, E. W. Williams of West Palm Beach, Fla., and had been in the service for the past two years. SGT, JAMES H, JERNIGAN AT MIAMI BEACH, FLA. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.. Sept. 1- Sgt. James H. Jernegan. son of Mr. James J. Jernegan of Ozark has returned from service outside the, continental United States and is now being processed through the Army Ground and Service Forces Redistirbution Station in Miami Beach, where his next assignment will be determined. Sgt. Jernegan served 30 months as clerk in the American and Asiatic-Pacific theatres of operations. CPL. HENRY C. CORDLE AT CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL DAYTONA BEACH.. Fla., Sept. 1-Cpl. Henry C. Cordle. who formerly lived in Enterprise, Ala., has recently arrived at Welch Convalescent Hospital the ArmY's' new reconditioning center in Daytona Beach, Fla. The carefully planned program of physical and educational reconditioning will keep him very busy and will put him in the pink of conditlon. Cpl. Cordie, is the son of Mr. J. H. Cordle who lives in the same town. In civilian life, Henry was employed by the Fuller Vault Co.,in Ozark, Ala. Cpl. Cordle entered the Army in June, 1942, at Fort McClellan, Ala. He has since served fourteen months in Africa, Sicily and Italy, where he was wounded. WALTER J. PATRICK IS JAP PRISONER OF WAR Camp Rucker, Ala.-Mrs. Bertha Patrick employed as seamstress at Medical Supply, since the organizatIon of Camp Rucker's Station Hospital,last week received a postcard from her son, Walter J.'Buster' Patrick, the first direct word from him since he was reported missing in action more thanl4 months ago. Enlisting in 1940, at Enterprise, Patrick left the States in November,1941, for the Philippines with a medical detachment; His mother"received a card from "Buster", which had been Written immedlatety after his landing on the 1s1ands. on December 9, two days after the Pearl Harbor incident. There was no further word for the anxioUs parents who watche4 the daily newspapers and listened avidly to the news broadcast. On June 24,a letter arrived which had been written on Valentine Day. The letter told of open field hospitals on Bataan which were without even a canvas covered top. The hospital where young Patrick was detailed was bombed as many as three times in a single day. Following the fall of Corrigedor, Patricks Parents received a te1egram from the War Department announcing that he was missingin action. A second wire, on the heels of the first, stated that he was listed as a prisoner on Corrigedor. In one of the earlier messages received, by Mr. and Mrs. Patrick, "Buster" wrote. that for the last five days on Bataan his outfit had had no food of any kind and that previous to that time they had lived on salmon and rice for five months. With the fall of Corrigedor came a third telegram from the War Department stating that Patrick had been sent to Tokyo as a prisoner of war, Only to be followed by a fourth wire announcing an error had been made and the lad was st1ll on Corrigedor. The card received last week by the PatrickS stated that the boy is st1ll in Camp B-1O in the Philippine Islands. It was the first direct word received, by the boy's parents whom they have not seen since September 1941. A form card, it was typewritteq with the number of words carefully counted to conform to the rules of correspondence by Japanese prisoners of war, and stated that "Buster" was well and hoped to be home in the near future. Born and raised at Enterprise, "Buster" apparently does not know that his Parents had PUrchased a home at Ozark more than a year ago, the card having been sent to the old address at Enterprise. Mrs. Patrick, at the request of the War Department, has given up writing her son since each letter mailed is returned to her by authorities who state that some violation of regulations have been made in each letter. S/SGT. JAMES W. MIZELL AT FORT KNOX. KY. Fort Knox, Ky.-A tank obstacle course so tough that is known as the, "tank murder course" is now being used by the Armored Board to test the ability of American tanks to take punishment over all types of terrain. Staff Sgt. James W. Mizell, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Mizell of Skipperville, Ala., a member of the 717th Tank Bn., drove one of the armored vehicles over this "murder course" in the first test run conducted on it. In this test run, every type of tank presently in use in combat theatres, plus those currently in development in this "countryY, was put through its paces over a 15-mile stretch of terrain which presented every conceivable naatural obstacle to tanks. No artificial tank obstalces were included in the "murder course", its purpose being to test the ability of tanks to negotiate terrtain obstacles found in nature. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/dale/newspapers/gnw344newsofou.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.2 Kb