1940 Draft - Serial Number Order Continued from Nov. 4 Saturday Tidbits “The wheel is spinning in the United States for some 17 million young men. It started when Congress decreed that they should register for possible military service. Then came the registration; then the spin which gave each man in the county a serial …
Category: WWII
Arrives Home on Queen Mary
Oakley Graphic (Oakley, Kansas)17 August 1945page 16 Tells of Trip Home on “Queen Mary” Brooklyn, New YorkAugust 5, 1945 Dearest Mother, Daddy and All: First, Mother I want to tell you how wonderful it was to hear your voice last night. It was so wonderful and natural — so sweet I’d known it anywhere. That …
WAC Flies to Germany
Oakley Graphic (Oakley, KS018 May 1945page 16 From the Men in the Armed Forces Greeting from EnglandApril 20 Dearest Mother and Daddy, When Monty crossed the Rheine — he made history for th world. When I crossed the Rheine — I made history for Dorothy — and that history was made today. Just got home …
WAAC Capt. Zelma Hanson
From the Men in the Armed Forces Dorothy Swart in London The following note was received by Geo. M. Swart of Oakley regarding a story which cleared through the Associated Press, February 15 and will be of interest to Miss Swart’s many friends on this community.2-17-43 Mr. SwartHere is a story from London you no …
Newspapers for Military News
Do you ever feel like you are 'going down a rabbit hole' with your research? That's what I feel like I'm doing with some of my research into some of the Purple Heart recipients in Nemaha County, Kansas. In this case, my 'rabbit hole' is not a Purple Heart recipient. Since 1946, Dorothy Swart Tatum …
Saturday Tidbits
Courier TribuneList Nemaha Serial Numbers for the Draft24 Oct 1940 List Nemaha Serial Numbers for the Draft Over 1600 names are in the County Roll A Master List Will Be Chosen in Washington, D.C.Tuesday to Determine Order in Which LocalNumbers Will Be Called The Courier-Tribune prints today a list of names and numbers important to …
Gold Star Mother
Have you encountered a 'Gold Star Mother' in your genealogy research. Even though I've researched women who lost sons in battle I've come across my first mention of a 'Gold Star Mother' in an obituary. Blanche Eva LighterThe Rev. Lee Webb, pastor of the Grace Baptist Church, will officiate at funeral services to be conducted …
Thank God We Don’t Need Your Kid!
By a Marine in the South Pacific You say he can't stand the ArmyThe life is too tough for him,Do you think he is any betterThan some other mother's Tom or Jim?You have raised him like a girlHe don't smoke or drink, is your brag,If all the boys were like himWhat would become of Our …
Home on Leave
For years, the Emporia Gazette (Emporia, Kansas) has had a column pulling historical tidbits from 20 and 30 years ago. On 28 May 1964, the '20 Years Ago' column reported on sailors home from leave from the war. The Emporia Gazette (Emporia, Kansas) 28 May 1964, Thu Page 4 Twenty Years Ago Eleven men, seamen …
PFC Lovell Mentzer
While searching the Yates Center News for an article stating that Cleo B. Peake was awarded the purple heart, I discovered another cousin killed during World War II: PFC Lovell Mentzer. Notice of the death of Private First Class Lovell J. Mentzer first appeared in the May 3, 1945 issue of the Yates Center News …