Crisp-Wilcox County GaArchives News.....TECH. SGT. J.B. POSEY HOME FROM SOUTH WEST PACIFIC 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 September 8, 2012, 2:02 pm CORDELE DISPATCH 1944 CARRYING SUPPLIES AND TROOPS ALL OVER THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC WAS THE DUTY TECHNICAL SERGEANT JAMES B. POSEY 26, WHO HAS SERVED AS AN AERIAL ENGINEER ON A C-47 TROOP CARRIER TRANSPORT PLANE IN THE SOLOMONS AND ADMIRALTY ISLANDS FOR 14 MONTHS. HE IS BACK HOME ON A 21-DAY LEAVE VISITING HIS WIFE RUTH,722 14TH AVE E. CORDELE, AND HIS FATHER J.B. POSEY, AT ROCHELLE. SGT POSEY CAN ACCOUNT FOR A TOTAL OF 1,500 FLYING HOURS OVERSEAS, OF WHICH 1,013ERE SPENT UNDER COMBAT CONDITIONS. HE HAS BEEN DECORATED WITH THE AIR MEDAL WITH ONE SILVER CLUSTER AND 4 OAK LEAF CLUSTERS POSEY ATTENDED ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL AND WAS INDUCTED AT ATLANTA,GA.IN APRIL 1942. HE HAS A BROTHER, WILBERN, SERVIG ON SAIPAN AT THIS TIME. Additional Comments: HE WAS MY UNCLE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/newspapers/techsgtj3194nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb