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Identifier

WT_1943_09_17

Publication Date

9-17-1943

Description

This black-and-white 12-page newspaper is a printed document about the Walker Army Air Base. This document is listed as Volume 1, Number 31, published on Friday, September 17, 1943. The Walker Air Base was located between Walker and Victoria, Kansas. The top of the first page features an illustration titled “Walker Talker,” depicting an air force plane accompanied by an air force base and tower. Page 1 has a headshot of film star Walter Abel, titled “Screen Star on Field.” In the bottom-left corner of page 1 is an illustration of two soldiers fighting, titled “American Heroes,” signed by Leff. The top of page 2 has an illustration of an air force insignia with wings. Page 2 also has two illustrated titles, reading “From the Mail Box” and “Laff of the Week.” The left column on page 3 is titled “Chapel Corner,” accompanied by a photograph of a white chapel, and the bottom-right columns have an illustrated title reading “Keynotes.” Page 4 features a photograph, titled “Yank Samples Jap Chow,” depicting Staff Sgt. Edmond A. Birdsell eating a bowl of rice in an abandoned Japanese home. Page 5 has an illustration titled “The Wolf” signed by Sansone. Below the illustration on page 5 is an illustrated title reading “Around the Base with Snooper.” Page 6 features a photograph titled "War Bond Ship" of the destroyer escort ship Thomason. Below the photograph is an illustrated title reading “Sgt. Snafu Says.” Page 7 is titled “Sports” in decorated bubble letters, accompanied by figures playing different sports. Page 8 features a photograph, titled “Prettiest and Most Talented—Not Bad,” depicting Jean Bartel, Miss America of 1943, on the right and Joan Huldoft, top talent winner, on the left. An entry on page 8 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. At the top of page 8 is an illustrated title reading “Rambling in the Dark.” Below the title is an illustration of a cadet speaking to a sergeant, signed by Cpl. Frank Dahlgren and Sgt. Jack Coley from Eglin Field, Florida. Page 9 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 9 features an illustration, titled “They Give Their Lives—You Give Your Money,” depicting a cross gravemarker inscribed “Pvt. John Doe,” amid a smoky battlefield with a stack of papers labeled “2nd War Loan.” Page 11 has an illustration, signed by Bob Koch, of a soldier looking out a plane window. At the bottom of page 11 is an illustration titled “Life Savers.” Page 12 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. Printed along the right side of page 12 is an edition of the comic Male Call by Milton Caniff, consisting of four panels.

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, September 17, 1943

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