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Identifier

WT_1943_06_25

Publication Date

6-25-1943

Description

This black-and-white 23-page newsletter is a typed document about the Walker Army Air Base. This document is listed as Volume 1, Number 19, published on Friday, June 25, 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 features three printed photographs titled “Keeping ‘Em Flying at WAAF,” the top of which depicts civilian and military workers in the sub-depot machine shop on the Air Base. The lower-left photograph depicts Corp. Ollie Rowe, Ruby Wilson, and Pat Elliot in the machine shop, and the lower-right photograph depicts Irene Stromberg, Foreman Charles Schuckman, and Pfc. Paul C. Smith working in the shop. The top of page 2 has a printed illustration of an air force insignia with wings. The bottom of page 2 has a printed illustration titled “Life Savers.” The left column of page 3 is titled “Yankwiz” by Bob Hawk, Quizmaster, followed by a quote reading “‘Thanks to the Yanks.” Beneath the quote is “Saturdays, C. B. S.,” accompanied by a headshot of a smiling man with black slicked-back hair. A printed illustration of a couple of soldiers and women, signed illegibly, appears on page 3. Page 5 has an entry titled “Answers to Bob Hawk’s Yankwiz” in bold letters. To the right of the words is a circle with a hawk wearing a bow tie speaking into a microphone. At the bottom of page 5 is a printed illustration titled “The Wolf,” signed by Sansone. The top of page 7 has a printed illustration of three orchids with the words “Orchids To:” written beneath the illustration. Printed sideways along the length of page 7 is an edition of the comic Male Call by Milton Caniff, consisting of four panels. Page 10 has an illustrated title reading “Rambling in the Dark.” Page 11 has a large illustrated title, “Movies,” within a stylized border. Page 13 is titled “Gremlin-Post” in shaded-in 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 on to the plane’s back fin. Page 17 has an illustrated title reading “‘Surveys’ Post Engineers.” Page 18 is titled “Sports” in decorated bubble letters, accompanied by figures playing different sports. The top of page 20 features an illustrated title reading “Around the Base with Snooper,” and another illustrated title toward the middle reading “396th: Keynotes.” Page 21 features a printed illustration in the center. Excluding page 5, the pages are numbered using numerals until page 12, after which no page numbers are listed. Pages 13, 14, and 18 have small ink splotches throughout, and page 21 has typed lettering in the left corner that is too light to read.

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, June 25, 1943

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