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MILITARY PICTURES
ELGIN COURIER Bastrop County
WWII Pictures and Articles As posted in the
Bastrop Advertiser and Elgin Courier in 1943's and 1944's Samuel A. Anderson
& D. H. Orts Adolph H. Bartsch & Amos O. Hefner Ernest J. Bartsch killed Michael Bartsch & Martin Layton R. H. Brieger and Walter E. Dickens Joe F. Bunte & Martin G. Mosebach picture/article
of Bunte and article on Mosebach Morris Callahan
& Robert Wilhelm (picture and article about
wounded) Donald Brooks
Carter (found dead) Owen Clifford
Chalmers, Verline Willie Hendrix and Frank Long Bower Crider (picture
and article about wounded) W. P. Culp,
III (picture and article about wounded) Walter E. Dickens
and R. H. Brieger Robert A. Dodson
& Jack C. Combs Mary Allie Dunbar
and Andrew Dunbar Vernon C. Dyer and
Ernest J Kadura Vernon D. Eskew and Hartford Jenkins, Jr Arthur L. Fisher
& Charles R. Hanna Ernest Frerich decorated Ernest Frerich wounded Tony R.
Galvan wounded Alvin Paul Goertz killed Anton Goertz and Sammie Pett y Anton J. Goertz and Ardell R. Kunschick Francis P. Goertz & Ernest J Hoffman Hugo S. Goertz & William A. Price Thomas L. Goertz & August J. Wanek William A. Griesenbeck & W. T. Higgins Guillermo
Gutierrez & Paul Gutierrez killed and wounded Emmitt Hancock
& Emmit Kenneth Charles R. Hanna
& Arthur L. Fisher Leland L Hanna
& Boyd Floyd Queen Oliver O. Hardt & Charles Hubert Shelton Amos O. Hefner
& Adolph H. Bartsch W. T. Higgins, Jr
& William A. Griesenbeck William T.
Higgins, Jr (promoted) Ernest J. Hoffman
& Francis P. Goertz George Hoffman
& Ernest Wilhelm Willie W. Ingram
& Charles Scheige Hartford Jenkins,
Jr and Vernon D. Eskew Charles Heise Jones & Lewis C. Wright Ernest J. Kadura and Vernon C. Dyer Ardell R. Kunschick and Anton J. Goertz Martin Layton
& Michael Bartsch Charles Edward Lee
& Elgie Mobley Odell McMullen
& Noah McMullen Arthur Mobley and
Leo C. Herms Homer M. Mobley
and Billy Moncure Elgie Mobley and
Charles Edward Lee Marshall E. Mobley
and Robert Kenneth Smith Billy Moncure and Homer M. Mobley Charlie Bob Morris
& Clyde C. Owens Martin G. Mosebach and Joe Bunte picture/article
of Bunte and article on Mosebach Billy Murchison
& Ernest Stowers D. H. Orts killed D. H. Orts &
Samuel A. Anderson Clyde C. Owens
& Charlie Bob Morris James H
Perkins killed William A. Price
& Hugo S. Goertz Boyd Floyd Queen
& Leland L. Hanna William Terry
Sanders (Picture and article) Charles Scheige and Willie W. Ingram Amos C. Schubert
& Pershing Turner Manuel Selvera & Reynaldo Selvera Charles Hubert
Shelton & Oliver O. Hardt Ezra W. Shelton
& Walter Oscar Willenberg (pictures
and deaths) Arthur C.
Smith promoted Robert Kenneth
Smith and Marshall E. Mobley Ernest Stowers & Billy Murchison Pershing Turner
& Amos C. Schubert August J. Wanek & Thomas L. Goertz Ernest Wilhelm
& George Hoffman Robert Wilhelm
& Morris
Callahan (picture and article about wounded) Walter Oscar Willenberg and Ezra W. Shelton (pictures
and deaths) Lewis C. Wright
& Charles Heise Jones County Judge Resigns to Enter Service: C. B. Maynard took oath making him first lieutenant in the Judge
Advocate General Department of the United States Army at Post Headquarters in
Camp Swift Wednesday morning, according to Capt. B. A. Heidt,
Post Public Relations Officer. Lt. H. M. Page, Post Adjutant,
administered the oath. Lt. Maynard, who has served Bastrop County in
the capacity of County Judge for the past three years, tendered his
resignation from that office to the commissioner's court in Bastrop Monday.
He reports for training at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on February 2. A
successor to fill the unexpired term of County Judge will be named by the
commissioners' court next Monday. LOCAL BOY RECEIVES PROMOTION: Friends of Captain Billy Townsend will be interested to learn
that he has recently been promoted to the rank of captain, from that of first
lieutenant. Captain Townsend, son of Mr. and Mrs. Woody Townsend, is
located at present at Fort Bliss, Texas. WHERE BASTROPS SERVICE MEN ARE LOCATED 10/1942 or 1943 (some
address are local but the men are overseas) G. Miley McCarty - RMEC USN, Patrol Wing 2, Flag Unit, Pearl
Harbor, T. H. J. E. Griffith - Trigger School, Bat A 351 CASL BN, Orlando, FL Cpl Claude Sharp, Co F 142 Inf, 36 Div, APO, Camp Edwards, MS Cpl Struba Hanna, 9th Chemical Co Depot,
Camp Rucker, AL Frank B. Green Jr, Co C 35 Eng Reg, APO Seattle WA Leon E. Smith, Co A 143 Inf, 36th Div, APO Camp Blanding, FL J. G. Bryson, Lt. JG MC, USN USS Dewey, San Francisco, CA Lt. William T. Higgins, Jr, Co A 48 Armored Inf,
Camp Polk, LA PFC Henry Gray, 3rd Med Supply Depot, APO San Francisco, CA Jno. V. Ash, Jr, Co C 121st Coast Artillery Sep Bn,
Gun AA, Semi Mobile, Anti Air Craft, Venice, CA PFC Richard H Brieger, 346 Eng. Med Det, APO, New York Cpl Morris M. Callahan, Co I Ordnance Officers Candidate School,
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD Pvt George Hoffman, 4th Air Depot 4th Air Supply Squadron, APO San
Francisco, CA Lt. J. G. Brannon, Medical Unit, Army Air Field, Stamford, TX Sgt. Charles Heise Jones, Med Det 334th Eng Reg, Camp Claiborne, LA O. C. Chalmers, Group 3 Schools, USMTS, San Diego, CA Pvt. Hugo S. Goertz, Det Corps Military Police, 8th Station Command, Camp
Bowie, Texas SPIVEY-CLARDY quietly married 12/9/1942. Cpl J. D. Spivey and Miss Lois Claudy,
son of Joe Spivey. Spivey stationed in Camp Young, CA Lt. James Gordon Bryson, Jr first man in Bastrop County and
Central Texas to receive citation for bravery and commendation. John Bennett Bryson, son of Dr. and Mrs. J Gordon Bryson,
recently entered the Army as a trainee in the Army Specialized Training Prog. Sgt. Claude H. (Red) Sharp wrote home from Italy 1/4/1944 War Department notified Mr. & Mrs. Peter Goertz
that Sylvester had been wounded in action in Italy 11/20/1944. Cpl. William Murchison was station in Camp Pickett, VA, no in
Fort Fisher, NC. Clinton Claiborne is in training in US Navy in San Diego,
1/4/1944 Frank B. Green address change to APO New York Willism C. Sanders, 27, promoted from corporal to sergeant, son of Mr.
& Mrs. W. E. Sanders, 1/1944 John Kennedy, in Army Air Corps at San Marcos, visited his
mother, Mrs. Willie Belle Kennedy. 1/1944 S. L. Brannon, Jr change of address to Pensacola, FL 1/1944 Louis Clark Wright commissioned Lt. (jg)
in the Naval Air Corps, stationed at Norfolk, VA, son of Jack Wright. Wife
Virginia Ray Hubbard. H. B. Phillips, transfer from Army Air Base in Reno, NV to Camp
Pinedale, Frezno, CA where he is in the Signal Co. Cpl Mike Schuelke change of address to
overseas, son of Mr/Mrs
M. A. Schuelke. Formerly stationed in Ft. Sam
Houston. Howard H. Lock, son of J. G. Lock, promoted to Lieutenant Col. A-Sgt. Bobbie L. Turner, radio operator i
13th AAF bomb squadron has been awarded the Air
Medal and 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, son of Ada B. Turner, born in Red Rock,
grandmother Turner and Aunt Kibbie Petty. Cpl. Ernest J. Hoffman thanking Mr. and Mrs
Standifer for christmas
card 1/1944 Tech. Sgt Lee R. Isaacs, brother of
Leon Isaacs, Rt. 2 awarded the Air Medal. Radio operator in Liberator
bomber. Hugh E. Stroud, son of Herman Stroud, has been promoted from Tech
5 to Tech 4th Grade at Engineer Unit Camp Claiborne, LA R. G. Waugh, son of Mrs. Julia Waugh, is on duty in the Atlantic
and a crew member of the S. S. Herbert C. Jones Lt. McDonald will be stationed at Camp Gruber. Vernon Eskew of Buckley Field, Co is
home on furlough. Arthur C. Smith in San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center TX 2/1944 William Barron, was stationed in Loredo Pfc Mark E. Oldfield changed address from Camp Forrest, TN to APO Sgt. Towhnsend F. Smith, son of M/M T.
F. Smith, Sr of San Antonio killed in Action on
Sardinia, 2/29/1944. His mother was Jean Hodges of Bastrop and Sgt.
Smith is a nephew of Mrs. Frank Green and B. C. Hodges Liberty Ship to carry name of Texas pioneer. Felip DeBastrop is now under
construction at Houston. Lt. Otillie Kunschick,
dau of Robert Kunschick
recently arrived with group of Army Nurses in England. Brothers meet in South Pacific. Rusty Reynolds and Capt Dan Reynolds saw each other on the islands after 2
years. 7/13/1944 Dennis A. Leddy, 22, son of J. B. Leddy, reported to the AAF
Training Command. 8/1944 PFC Manuel M. Sebbera cited and awarded
the Combat Infantryman Badge in Fifth Army front in Italy. Staff Sergeant Guadalupe G. Guiterrez
awarded the oak leaf cluster, in lieu of second Bronze Star for 85th Custer Div Italy, son of Desederio
Gutierrez. Kleber M. Trigg, Jr commissioned a second Lieutenant in the Army.
Enlisted 3/23/1944. |
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