Our Men in Service in 1943

From Logan County, Oklahoma

The following article submitted by Ralph Biggs

Our Men In Service 1943

PFC. Joseph W. Olliver is now stationed somewhere in India with the air transport command, according to word received here Saturday. Oliver was sent into foreign service in July.

Sgt. William E. McDowell has arrived at Seymour Johnson Field, N. C., where he will await orders for overseas duty, according to word received by Mrs. William E. McDowell, 415 N. Broad.

Pvt. A. C. Waller of Fort Sill is spending the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lundy Waller, 416 E. Springer.

A graduate this week of the Harlingen flexible gunner school, who qualified as an expert triggerman after six weeks of intensive training and now wears the silver wings of a gunner-technician-sergeant is Edward F. Dutcher, son of Mrs. E. T. Dutcher, 523 E. Harrison.

He was promoted to sergeant and received his diploma and wings and sharpshooting medal at the Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas, and has been transferred to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pvt. Raymond A. Miller of Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. is spending a 15-day furlough with his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Miller, Rt. 3, and other relatives here.

Word has been received here Saturday that John Elbert Dye, seaman second class of the Navy Air Corps is training at Whitbe Island to be an aerial gunner. Dye is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jewel Dye of Oklahoma City and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McMurtrie, and graduated from Guthrie high school in 1941

Pfc. Norman L. Buckley, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Buckley, of south of Guthrie, has been graduated from a mechanical school at Gulfport, Miss., and has been transferred to the army air forces flexible gunnery school at Las Vegas, N. M.

John D. Davis, yeoman third class of the United States Coast Guard left Sunday morning for Chicago, where he will be stationed indefinitely in the district coast guard office.

Davis, son of the late Ralph M. and Ella Davis has spent the last few days visiting in the home of Drs. Ray and Lillian Davis, 4 Park Place. He recently returned from action in Sicily.

Lieut. Melvin Hugh Davis, son of Drs. Ray and Lillian Davis, 4 Park Place, left Sunday morning for Fort Sill, where he will undergo intensive training. He recently received his "wings" at Pittsburg.

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