Dale County AlArchives News.....News of Our Men and Women in Uniform, May 25, 
1944 April 25 1944
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The Southern Star
55 Years Ago, May 25, 1944....Reprinted May 26, 1999.

NEWS OF OUR MEN and WOMEN IN UNIFORM

LieuT. HOWELL COMPLETES B-24 BOMBER TRAINING
  FORT WORTH, Tex., May 20-First Lieut. George D. Howell, age 27, son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank S.Howell, of 70 Newton St., Ozark.Ala., graduated this week as a 
B-24 bomber pilot at Fort Worth Army Air Field.
  ieut. Howell received previous flight training at Ballinger, Sheran and 
Houston, Texas
  This week's special class of Liberator bomber pilots will either receive 
assignment as flight instructors on the giant aircraft or be sent to AAP 
tactical schools for final phases of pre-combat training.


OZARK OFFICER KNOWS WAY AROUND IN SKIES
  AUBURN, Ala., May 19 - When 1st Lieut. John L. Redd, student Officer  at 
Courtland Army Air Field who attended API before entering the Air Corps, takes 
off in a BT-13 his instructor is fairly certain he won't get lost.
Lieut. Redd has flown more than 1,000 hours as an ATC navigator in the freak 
weather conditions prevalent in the Pacific, Asiatic and European theatres.
  Back in 1942,  when he  was navigator on a DC-3 being delivered to New 
Calendonia, Lieut. Redd participated in a long search for Capt. Eddie 
Fickenbacker and his companions.
  Lieut. Redd has also been an ATC navigator instructor, training other
navigators for the high altitude problems they were to counter in flying "the 
hump" between India and China.
  A native of Ozark, Ala., he entered API in 1939, where he was majoring in 
electrical engineering. He has been in the Air Corps since January, 1942.


DOWLING BOYS VISIT PARENTS AT PINCKARD
  Lieut R. A. Dowling, Jr., and his brother, Noel Dowling recently spent a few 
days at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowling of Pinckard.
  Lt. Dowling is stationed at Camp Lee, Va., and Noel is stationed at
Fort Benning, Ga. While at home they called at The Star office.


S/SGT. RUFUS R. WATERS NOW WITH AAF IN ENGLAND
  AN AIR FORCE SERVICE COMMAND STATION, "Somewhere In England-S/Sgt. Rufus R. 
Waters, husband of Opal N. Waters of Daleville, Ala., is now overseas and has
participated in a course designed to bridge the gap between training in the 
States and Soldiering in an active Theatre of War.
  At one of the Air Service Command stations known as Control Depots, S/Sgt. 
Waters was carefully processed by classification experts who made certain that 
he was well-fitted for the job assigned to him.
  His next station will be one from which America's fighting planes take off to 
smash the Nezi war machine.
  Before entering the Army, he was employed as an Inspector by the Mobile 
Engineering District.


CADET JOE FRANK SOLLIE GRADUATES FROM RIVERSIDE
  GAINESVILLE, Ga,, May 20 - Riverside Military Academy, the nation's largest 
military prep school closed its thirty-sixth annual Commencement Exercises here 
today with graduation of 150 cadets, most of whom will soon enter the Nation's 
armed forces.
  Among those honored or graduated during these final exercises was Cadet Joe 
Frank Sollie, son of Mrs. Mike Sollie, Jr , of 135 Broad St., Ozark, who 
received the English diploma.


HAMILTON DEWITT CHILDREE PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN
  Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Childree of Clio route one, he is a graduate of 
Barbour County High School.

CPL. JAMES L. MARSHALL, Son of Rev. and Mrs. B.J. Marshall of Midland City, He 
is in the Medical Corps. He has a brother T/Sgt. Robert B. Marshall, also with 
the medical corps.

CPL. Grey H. EDWARDS GOES TO CAMP SHELBY.
  Son of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Edwards.

BRYON WARD RETURNS TO CAMP PERRY, VA.

T/5 THOMAS F. WYNN IN PANAMA JUNGLES
 CPL. Wynn of Ozark, brother of Mrs. Edna F. Free of Ozark, Ala.

TWO COFFEE COUNTY BOYS TO BE SEEN IN NEWS REEL
  S/Sgt. Lester Moore of New Brocton, route one and Cpl. Bill Martin of Elba, to 
be seen in news reel, the title " G.I's Eye the World".
  Mrs. Lester Moore is the former Waurie Sconyers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Roscoe Sconyers of Daleville, route one. She and her small son Eric Lee, are 
making their home in Elba, among friends during Sgt. Moore's assignment 
overseas.
  Mrs. Bill Martin is the former Addie Bell Wilson. She is at home with her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wilson of Tennille.


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