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Identifier

WT_1943_05_28

Publication Date

5-28-1943

Description

This black-and-white 18-page newsletter is a typed document about the Walker Army Air Base. The newsletter consists of 20 pages, but page 9 has a primary page along with 9A and 9B. This document is listed as Volume 1, Number 15, published on Friday, May 28, 1943. The Walker Air Base was located between Walker and Victoria, Kansas. The top of the first page features a printed illustration titled “Walker Talker,” depicting an air force plane accompanied by an air force base and tower. Page 1 is printed, while the rest of the newsletter is typed. Page 1 is titled “Walker Army Air Field Being Doubled in Size,” and 3 printed photographs accompany the entry. The top photo depicts laborers working on building new additions to the air base, the middle photo depicts 2 laborers sitting and standing on a beam, and the bottom photo depicts a crane and multiple laborers on the ground and within the structure. The top of page 2 has a printed illustration of an air force insignia with wings. The bottom of page 2 has the illustrated title “The Fightin’ 500th.” At the top of page 3 is a photograph depicting Kansas Governor Andy Schoeppel posing with Colonel Cahill in front of the Colonel’s plane. The Governor is wearing a dark suit, tie, and a tribly hat, and the Colonel is wearing a military uniform and cap. The bottom-right column on page 3 is titled “Medics” in illustrated font. Page 4 has a large illustration signed by Forsberg depicting different ways to salute. Page 5 has 2 printed photographs. The top photograph, taken on May 8, 1943, depicts prisoners marching in the street around an Allied tank after the United Nations entered Tunis. The bottom photograph depicts Allied tanks firing at an enemy strongpoint, surrounded by white smoke, in Tunis. Page 6 has an illustration signed by Forsberg titled “‘Hey, you G.I. Fotogs!’” The entry on page 6 is titled “Open Letters” in decorated bubble letters. The right column of page 7 is titled “Yankwiz” by Bob Hawk, Quizmaster. There is a quote reading “‘Thanks to the Yanks,’” and beneath the quote is “Saturdays, C. B. S.” Next to the text is a printed headshot of a smiling man with black slicked-back hair. At the bottom of page 7 is a printed illustration signed by Pvt. “Buck” Glanzman from Gunterfield, Ala. Page 8 features a large illustration signed by Forsberg. The left column on page 8 has the handwritten title “902 Quartermaster Corps.” Printed sideways up the length of page 9 is an edition of the comic Male Call by Milton Caniff, consisting of 9 panels. Beside the end of the comic strip is an illustration of a uniform-clad soldier pointing his thumb at the comic strip, saying, “Yeah, I know, but look at the swell pie he’d miss!” The right-hand column of page 9 is titled “Answers to Bob Hawk’s Yankwiz” in bold, printed letters. To the right of the printed words is a circle with a hawk wearing a bow tie speaking into a microphone. The next page is numbered 9A, and the top-left column is titled “Snooper” in bubble letters, accompanied by an illustration of a man wearing a top hat looking into the keyhole of a door. The bottom-right column on page 9A has the handwritten title “Wanted! Life-Saving Instructors.” The next page, numbered 9B, is titled “Sports” in an illustrated font. Page 10 has a printed illustration titled “The Wolf” by Sansone. At the bottom of page 10 is another printed illustration titled “Life Savers.” At the top of page 11 is an illustration, signed by Forsberg. Page 12 is titled “Movies,” written in decorated block letters. In the middle of page 12 are two illustrated titles, both reading “Saturday Night Owl Show.” Page 13 is titled “Gremlin-Post” in handwritten lettering. Below the title is a hand-drawn illustration of a military plane with a star insignia on its fuselage and both wings, flying to the right. Hanging off the letter “S” in the title is a monkey, and another is holding onto the plane’s tail fin. Below the illustration are the words “400th Sub-Depot.” Page 14 has an illustration of 3 airplanes flying above an entry titled “Letter to St. Peter” by Elma Dean in typed lettering. The top of page 16 is titled “The Cry of the Kee Bird,” written in bubble letters that are displayed on a large sign with snow covering the top of it. To the right of the sign is a bird with a large, extended beak filled with sharp teeth, shivering and covered in snow. Next to the typed title “Supply Lines by Boodie Bogan” on page 17 is an illustration of military supply trucks. At the top of page 18 is an illustration of a uniform-clad soldier walking on a path in the direction of a pointed sign. The title reads “Some Pointers on the,” and the sign beneath reads “Road to Failure.” Page 7 has small ink splatters running down the middle of the page.

Physical Description

9"x12" printed newspaper

Rights

This material is in the public domain.

Publisher

United States Army Air Corps

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Language

eng

Walker Talker: Friday, May 28, 1943

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