Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue History & Genealogy Culver, Marshall, Indiana

World War II in Culver April - Jun 1944  



Apr 5

Billy Fried, Pilot, Declared Deceased By U.S. War Department - ... letter...dated March 5, 1944... Captain WIlliam E. Friend Jr., 0-385995, Air Corps was reported missing in actiom 4 Mar 1943, the War Department has entertained the hope that he survived... the conditions of warfare deny us such information. The record concerning your son shows that the aircraft of which he was the pilot was shot down by enemy action off Texel Island, Holland... In view of the fat that twelve months have now expired without the receipt of evidence to support a continued presumption of survial, the War Department must terminate such absence by a presumtive finding of death... enslisted as an air cader July 1931 and received his commission in February 1942. Upon his arrival in England he was promoted to captain and in February 1943, was awarded the Air Medal and the Oak Leaf cluster for meritorious service on combat missions over Europe...

Apr 12

War Wppeals Carnival and Parade Fri. Night - Huge Parade to be Staged Before Carnival With Three Sections in Line - VAriety of Entertainment To Be Provided at Big Carnival in Gym.

Apr 19

Crowd Lines Streets To view Parade For War Appeals Dirve - One of the largest parades ever held here introduced the Victory Carnival that packed throngs into the Community Building last Friday, ... The parade was a tribute to Capt. Jim Rich organize and directe such events...

Scrap Paper pickup this week will be in the north part of twon and in business district. The truck will aslo cover the Academy

Pay Red Cross Quota...Union Township War Appeals and Charities ... make out check for $2,468.94 to the local Red Cross chapter which in turn added the $1,331.06 raised by its letter campahin and booth and sent a check for $3,800 to the Marshall County American Red Cross chapter...

Merry Throng Packs Community Blg. for War Appeals Carnival... After paying all bills the carnival netted $208. The pldges so far to the War Appeals fund total $4,791.00 with $3,923 paid in...,br>

Apr 26

Former Culverite on National War Fund Board - Dr. V. A. Lowry, formerly of Culver ...has been appointed to the board of directors of the National War Fund of which this year includes the USO...

May 10

Sgt Hodgkin, Former C.M.A. Teacher Wins Aviation Decorations - An Eighth AAF
BOmber Station England... London-born radio operator and gunner on the Eighth Air FOrce FLying Fortresses "Dragon Lady" and "POwerful Katrina".... received the DFC for "courage and extraodinary achivement" during the numerous bombing attacke on military and industrial target in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe, also holds the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters... After joing the AAF in October, 1942 he attended radio school at Scott Field, Ill. and came overseas as a radio mechanic. Voulunteering for aerial gunnery, he received his wings in the fall of 1943...


Sgt. Ronald Mackey, 20... has been reported missin in action since e April 12 over Yugoslavia. A tail gunner on a Loberator servin in the 15th air force in Italy...

Culver Reuion in the Pacific Area... George Byrd left...and Henry Speyer, are shown greeting each other on Oahi Island. The boys are second cousins and had not seen each other for over two years. Inf fact he was the first CUlverite Gerge has seen since he left the United States.


Culver Reuion in the Pacific Area... Cecil Miller... and Frederic Adams... posed for a picture in Honolulu after meeting in a hotel at Waikiki beach...


May 17

County's Quota for FIfth War Loan Drive Set at $1,344,600

ROnald Mackey Is a German Prisoner - ...is a prisoner of war of the German government it was learned Friday morning... had been reported missin in action over Czechoslovakia...

Receives Son's Purple Heart Decoration - Mrs. Harry Hartz... Alvin sent the award home for safe keeping.

War Appeals Tresurer Has $5,064.38 Balance - ...Added to a bank balance of $2905.20 in March were the receipts of $211.90 from stunt bught, $76.80 from a basketball game abd cash subscriptions of $4,367.62. This made a total of $7,561.52. The federal Tax on stunt night came to $21.19 and the tax on the backet ball game was $70.01. A check for $2,468.94 was handed to the Union Township Red Cross Chapter chairman, making total disbursments $2,497.14

May 24

Form Sister Team At Army Hospital - The is the only sister team among the nurses at the army's recently dedicated Crile General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. The Sisters Betty Lea HArper, 22 (left) and Evelyn Harpert, 21, of Culver... they entered the Army Nurse Corps last February and received their basic training at Billings General HOspital, Indianapolis...


Surgical Dressing Clasees Bee Help

May 31

Allen Marshall Receives Wings - ... received his silver wings May 23 when he graduated as a second lieutenant from the Marfa, Tecas AAF Advanced Two-engine Pilot School... he was assigned to Polaris Flight Academy Lancaster, Calif.

Plan events to Open Fifth War Loan Drive in Indiana On June 12

Jun 7

Invasion of Europe Gets Under Way As ALlies Storm France - ...shortly after midnight June 5 with allied night bombers opening the assult. Nackal taks forces and airbone units later joined the attack along a 100-mile strech of the Normandy coast between Cherbough and Le Havre...

Townships Receive Wart Bond Quotas - ...Culver and Union Township $100,000....

Norbert Burkett Declared Dean By War Department - ... who has been listed as missing in action for a year... her was in the European theater...

Asks Citizens to Plan War Bond Purchases The fifth war Bond drive will open Monday, June 12... Then the worker will need to call only once.

June 14

Red Cross Refuses to Acccept War Appeals Check for $2,46.04 - ...This year the the county organization uncovered a pre-war ruling that the Red Cross didn't sanction participation in unified drives and wanted its onw solicitation... the $1,331.06 raised by the booth solicitation has been sent in to the county chapter. War Appeals officers state that the money will be available any time the Red Corss wants it and express regret that the county chapter raised the issue so that the intention of the township to provide funda for the Red Cross could not be fulfilled... The general feeling also exists here that there is no reason to subscribe to a Red Cross drive if it is launched in the township next year. That citizens should merely imform solicitors that money for the Red Cross is available any time that organization wants to accept it...

Harvey L. Warner Is German Prisoner of War - Corp. Harvey L Warner, who was listed as missing in action by the War Department in January 30, 1944 has written...froma a German prison camp... has been wounded twice in action... As a member of the Ranger division he was wounded in Italy at the time he was captured... Inducted in the army on March 14, 1941, he was corporal of the supplies

Don Speyer Hurt In Plane Crash... was injured when the navy plane on which he was a radio operator and gunner, crashe while taking off some place in the Pacific was area. Three member of the crew were killed, but DOn excaped with a fractured and and third degree burns...

June 28

Used Army Trucks for Farmer; Galvanized Ware production up

Purchases of Bonda Past Hal Way Mark

PLan Scrop Paper Drive for Saturday






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