Preview

image preview

Identifier

20031549

Description

Sergeant Albert S. Powers Jr.A man standing in front of a wall, wearing a light-colored Army Air Forces uniform sans a jacket. He has a tie of the same color as his shirt tucked into the front buttons, and has a thin decoration service ribbon over his breast pocket, along with wings insignia. His service cap of the same general hue also has a service insignia above the bill. There is a patch for his unit or job on his left arm, over sergeant's stripes. There is also a service patch near the cuff of his right sleeve. Clipping:"Soldier on Furlough Will Have November Christmas. Sgt. Albert S. Powers Jr. has missed being home for the last two Christmases because of his service in the Caribbean with the Army Air Forces, but his mother doesn't intend for him to lose out this year. So one day next week, before his 30-day furlough ends, Mrs. Powers will have a Christmas celebration for her family in their home, 1700 Clover Lane, including a Christmas tree.All the family, including the parents, Sergeant Powers and his sister, Eva Marie, will be there. And there will be a special gust, Miss Betty Jane Fort, 3315 Ryan Avenue, the sergeant's fiance.Before being stationed on his present duty as control tower operator, Sergeant Powers was a gunner on submarine patrol duty. And although Army regulations prevent his saying how many, he admitted there were some swastika-bearing submarines—indicating a Nazi sub sunk—painted on the side of the bomber he served.'You fly for days and never see one,' he said. 'When you do you get a funny tickling in your stomach that feels like you haven't eaten for two or three days. But when you get on that gun, you forget all of that.' In a few more months, Sergeant Powers expects to be sent back to the States to enter training as an aviation cadet. He hopes to be the pilot of a pursuit ship—'where you're on your own.'Sergeant Powers, a graduate of Arlington Heights High School, entered the service in November, 1941. The Army's all right, he says, but he doesn't intend to stay in after his duty is over.'I'm going to get out and get married,' he stated. 'And if I get through my cadet training all right, we may bet married before I get out.'"Stamped: Star-Telegram Eve. Nov.12, 1943

Archival Date

1943-11-11

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-296

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

Subjects

Military personnel

Download Medium Thumbnail

Names

Powers, Albert

Subjects

Military personnel

Share

 
COinS